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Title is editorialized because the original is, frankly, clickbait garbage
Some further clarification on the closed source thing from their FAQ:
Why is Magic Earth free? What is the business model?
Magic Earth is free for all our end-users but we also have a paid Magic Earth SDK for business partners. For instance Selectric.de (a supplier for navigation solutions for ambulances and fire trucks), Smarter AI (developing ADAS systems) or Absolute Cycling (using the platform on bicycles). For more info on the SDK, you can check magiclane.com.
Will Magic Earth be Open Source?
No; since it is also used commercially (we have a paid Magic Earth SDK for business partners), we cannot make the code public.
Yes. To be more specific, it’s a router planner service, site, and app for electric vehicle use. It’s something that Google has been doing pretty badly, so it would be nice to see as one more killer feature for osm and related apps. And something that might be pretty big in the future especially if car nav manufacturers keep on being really incompetent.
Traffic updates aren’t exactly a problem for me as I travel everywhere using my bicycle/public transit.
The only problem I face is that I can’t get public transit information on OSM. Now ideally the city should be the one making this information accessible. Unfortunately for me, I currently live in a shitty city (although not for long). Therefore, within a matter of months, Organic would meet almost 100% of my navigation needs.
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Some further clarification on the closed source thing from their FAQ:
Like there’s no open source project with commercial paid licence ?
Or a source-available model.
Nothing competes with osmand for hiking or cycling.
Oh, wow. Osm has gotten a lot better for cycling since I last looked.
I’m unlikely to be on strange routes these days but that’s still great. The maps are already much more useful that Google’s.
Now I wish it also covered abrp functionality for chargers.
Whats abrp? Search leads me to a route planner
https://abetterrouteplanner.com/
Yes. To be more specific, it’s a router planner service, site, and app for electric vehicle use. It’s something that Google has been doing pretty badly, so it would be nice to see as one more killer feature for osm and related apps. And something that might be pretty big in the future especially if car nav manufacturers keep on being really incompetent.
Traffic updates aren’t exactly a problem for me as I travel everywhere using my bicycle/public transit.
The only problem I face is that I can’t get public transit information on OSM. Now ideally the city should be the one making this information accessible. Unfortunately for me, I currently live in a shitty city (although not for long). Therefore, within a matter of months, Organic would meet almost 100% of my navigation needs.
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pretty sure organic is working on that, I remember there being docs on building with PT data.