Is Maps still actively maintained?

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Hi,

When I saw the promoted “Maps” app on the store, I was quite excited to be able to manage my POI/favourites on Nextcloud. However, the latest release was 6 months ago, it’s NC31 compatible only.

NC31 is EOL in a month now, and even though some PR have been submitted to make the app NC32 compatible, there’s still no release.

As a matter of fact, whether we should downgrade to NC31 to use the app, or disable it (my option). Reading comments, it looks like the app is slowly updated and it’s not the first time users face the dilmena to hold back from upgrading to a major release, or simply disable the app.

Hence: is the map actively maintained/developed? As it’s promoted on the store, I would tend to answer positvely, but we haven’t been able to use it on NC32 for months now.

Anyways, thanks for your hardwork, self-hosting one’s cloud is priceless.

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I encountered the same problem and solved it finally by switching over to GPXPod, which is basically the same as Maps (even with the same main programmer behind it), but with a couple of options more. And most importantly, GPXPod is actively maintained and works with the newest release of Nextcloud!

In my opinion, they should drop Maps completely and make GPXPod a featured app…

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Thanks you for pointing to GPXPod, looks neat! But it seems to miss some Maps features like having photos directly on map, or managing POIs?

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Personally, I never used these features so I didn’t mind.

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Does GPXPod include having pictures and contacts show up on the map?

The tracks are cool, but having a geographical layout of where pictures were taken is pretty cool.

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No it doesn’t :confused:

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For displaying photos - also directly on a map - please check the Nextcloud App Memories https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/memories

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OK, if we have to replace a “Featured” app by a collection of other apps, I guess users can adapt according to their use cases, but then I wonder why Maps is still featured while comments have been accumulating for months on github asking for a NC32 update, with no feedback. If we have to migrate to gpxpod+Memories+xxx, so be it, but that “Featured” mention is misleading to my eyes.

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