The GNOME developers behind the Maps application distributed as part of the GNOME Stack announced today the availability of an important release of the project since it lost access to the MapQuest service.
As reported by us two weeks ago, GNOME Maps lost its free map tile service, MapQuest. Why? Simply because the free online web mapping service owned by AOL has decided that it’s time to disabled access to their free feed.
Since then, projects like GNOME Maps that relied on the MapQuest service for fetching tiles had no other chance but to move to an alternative, which is pretty hard to find these days, at least according to the developers behind the open source project.
On July 30, 2016, the GNOME Maps 3.20.2 stable release have been made available for download, and it promises functional maps again, thanks to the… (read more)
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