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Hi,
First, thank you for your work. Osmapp is the best Web interface to OSM, along with Qwant Maps (sadly not developed anymore).
I started implementing my own map app last month, and I figured out later that I've chosen ~ the same technologies to do that : OSM (of course), maplibre, next, styled-components but also Photon. What a pleasure to be able to catch up quickly on some features (I added 3D terrain easily thanks to your work).
First I thought : why not join forces ? But my objective is not to develop a world wide map, rather just a map for French people that handles our local particularities. That's already quite a challenge ! Also, and maybe more importantly, while I'm at the moment working on a "generic base map" that resembles osmapp, my aim is to work on ecological (first focusing on climate impact) travel, 5DE7 and particularly local travel.
The idea comes from the simulators provided (in french only) on futur.eco. You can simulate the climate impact of your plane trip, your ferry trip, compute the € that your car trip costs. After this first step, I figured out that we need a generic interface to handle all this, à la Google Maps. And guide the user towards more ecological travel on the map, with footprint numbers as color tips, and routing algorithms that go way further than now in terms of intermodality : in France, combining train + (< 20 km) bicycle lets your reach 80 % of the inhabited and touristic places.
My approach is hence exploratory. I'm ok with implementing dirty features, that work only in some regions of France (I'm focusing on Brittany right now), just to be able to test them quickly. The map component is a big mess of useEffects, that I'm starting to export in new files progressively. I have no test yet. The repo has no issue talking about the map part, called "voyage", yet (I keep all my notes in a draft list).
The second reason why I think it would be too early for me to contribute to OSMapp instead, is that you can pick anything you want in my codebase :) Both projects share a GPL license and lots of code blocks are just plug and play.
For instance, I've implemented a query to Wikimedia Commons to have images on POI ; you can also display images on the map (buggy feature). Another example would be the integration of itineraries (bike, walk), and the stop times of buses, thanks to the GTFS data made available by the french regions and federated by a national law. Something else that could be interesting for OSMApp : I've found that giving the user the choice to search locally via a tick box is a good UX that makes Photo more powerfull.
I have ~ no users right now, so no about page to cite osmapp, except for the first blog entry. But [I try to cite](https://github.com/search?q=repo%3Alaem%2Ffutureco osmapp&type=code) your app when some code blocks are imported or source of inspiration.
Everything is open source but on this subsection of a bigger repo : https://github.com/laem/futureco/tree/master/app/voyage
Well, I also just wanted to say hi, thanks and start a discussion :)