Comment by euroderf

Just a heads up for context:

"In November 2014, Maps.me was acquired by Mail.Ru Group for 542 million Russian rubles"

"On November 2, 2020, Daegu Limited bought Maps.me for 1.56 Billion Russian rubles. Daegu Limited is announced to be part of Parity.com Group"

"Parity.com Group is privately held and is headquartered in Zug, Switzerland. It was founded by Viktor Mangazeev and Alex Grebnev in 2018. "

https://markets.ft.com/data/announce/detail?dockey=1323-1473...

We have created maps.me, open-sourced it, and then forked it to create Organic Maps.

In case the other messages are not completely clear:

If you like Maps.me, you should move to Organic Maps. It's a fork, just strictly better.

Other people have already written that it's a fork of OrganicMaps by original authors.

I'll just add that for me OrganicMaps is much better than current Maps.me which is getting worse and worse after it was sold to some Korean (or Chinese, don't remember now) company.

The UI is much simpler and in recent months you can really start to see that OrganicMaps is becoming more detailed. I used to check from time to time the difference between Maps.me and OM and and it used to not be much of a difference, but now you have: more POIs (point of interests, like physiotherapist, specific kind of shops, etc.), better rendering of walls, fences, cliffs, embankments, hedges, better rendering of parking places (very recent update!), and more!

Organic Maps comes from the original founders of Maps.me.

OK, Organic Maps looks great. But how the heck do I transfer to it all my bookmarks from Maps.me ?

Organic Maps is a fork of Maps.me.