Maps.me was on HN a couple of weeks back.

MAPS.ME is gone. We must bring it back: https://telegra.ph/What-happened-to-the-old-MAPSME-12-20

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25515004

The most active fork is probably OMaps.

https://github.com/omapsapp

https://matrix.to/#/#omapsapp:matrix.org?via=matrix.org&via=...

Surprisingly, the original is still being updated too: https://github.com/mapsme/omim

Is OMaps available for phones yet? All I can see is source code.

There used to be a free fork of Maps.me called simply Maps on F-Droid here: https://f-droid.org/packages/com.github.axet.maps

Very nicely designed. It seems to be gone now however, maybe someone else knows why.

There's a new one called OMaps, currently in an early stages of development.

https://github.com/omapsapp

https://matrix.to/#/#omapsapp:matrix.org?via=matrix.org&via=...

I was looking for a more lightweight FOSS map app (as opposed to OsmAnd+, which is excellent but not the most performant), as far as I can tell the Maps maintainer had a falling out with / didn't respond to the F-Droid maintainers.

That said I had to piece this together from some commit messages by the F-droid maintainers so I'd prefer a better source myself.

I recently tried the newer iOS app and it requested my location in the background somewhere around once per minute when I wasn't using the app. Didn't do anything to investigate— I just deleted the app— but it was sketchy.

I've been using Maps, from fdroid, also. It is very good, quick, and you can choose tracking on and off, etc. It states under info, that it is based on maps.me, version that's working is 9.1.8-8.