Add Famxplor web map

[alt250]

World map featuring family travel blog posts

[mtmail]

Looking at the map requires a "login or register with google" and later "Free to try during 30 days"

[alt250]

Thanks for reviewing this PR @mtmail !

Looking at the map requires a "login or register with google" and later "Free to try during 30 days"

Yes. Creating an account is free.
Sorry if this is not allowed in this list, feel free to close this PR.

Here is what the map looks like FYI:

[alt250]

Another screenshot with more context (family travel activities):

Thanks!

[Unkn0wnCat]

Hey @alt250,

thanks for your contribution, however I have to agree with @mtmail. Awesome-Lists are normally meant to showcase FOSS-projects, and whilst we do have a few non-open-source tools in our lists, all of them can be used for free.

I therefore see a problem with adding Famxplor to the main list. However we may still be able to work with this by adding a secondary list. Just as we have UNMAINTAINED.md for unmaintained projects, we could have a NONFREE.md.

My suggestion is for you to remove your change to the README.md and create a NONFREE.md with the following content instead:

# Non-Free Projects

The projects listed here are cool too, but can only be used against payment and don't publish their sources. 
These commercial products are seperated from the main list to keep the main focus of the list on FOSS-projects.

## Contents

* [Maps](#maps)
  * [Web Maps](#web-maps)

## Maps

### Web Maps

* [Famxplor](https://famxplor.com/) - World map featuring travel with kids blog posts. Find activities for your family vacations worldwide.

Let me know what you think!

[alt250]

Hey @Unkn0wnCat ,
Thanks for your insightful comment!

I think that adding a NONFREE.md list is a good idea. It will make the distinction between free and non-free explicit.

It just happened that in the meantime, I decided to make Famxplor free!
It is based on several free projects (like OSM) and content sources, so it makes more sense like this.

Famxplor is now free but still closed-source, so should I add it to NONFREE.md as you suggested?

[mnalis]

Famxplor is now free but still closed-source, so should I add it to NONFREE.md as you suggested?

As it is not FOSS, I think adding it to NONFREE.md would be appropriate.

[alt250]

Hey @Unkn0wnCat,
I created NONFREE.md and added Famxplor to it.
Note that I slightly modified the intro text of the non-free page.

[mnalis]

Suggested change

	The projects listed here are cool too, but they can only be used against payment or do not publish their sources.
	These commercial products are separated from the main list to keep the main focus on FOSS projects.
	The projects listed here are cool too, but they require payment or do not publish their sources.
	These products are separated from the main list to keep the main focus on FOSS projects.

clarify payment, also commercial products can be free (as in freedom), and non-free (proprietary) produces can be gratis (and of course products can be neither or both), so try not to conflate them incorrectly

[mnalis]

perhaps for each project, at the end add the short description in parenthesis why it is in this list e.g. (gratis but closed source) or whatever happens to be the case

[alt250]

@mnalis Thanks for clarifying the text!
I also added "gratis, closed-source" after Famxplor as you suggested

[mtmail]

I still think the website not OSM related enough and I don’t see it promoting OSM. Closed data is displayed on a base map behind a login, OSM attribution behind a tiny (i) on the bottom right of the map. 100.000s websites use a OSM basemap similarly. It’s one of five PRs to various awesome-* by the owner.
Of course I encourage the repo maintainers to add what they see fit.

[alt250]

@mtmail Thank you for the feedback! I appreciate your perspective on the OSM relevance.

I'd like to clarify a few points:

• The map on Famxplor features publicly available data displayed on a world map, which is powered by OSM.
• Account creation on Famxplor is free, and the product itself is now entirely free to use.
• The "(i)" icon in the bottom right is part of the MapLibre framework (documentation). By default, it displays attributions and auto-hides when the map is moved. I've attached a screenshot for reference:

While Famxplor does use OSM as its core mapping service, I understand the importance of making that more apparent. To address this, I've added a "Built with OpenStreetMap" link at the bottom of the map page. This is visible in the screenshot above.

Regarding the multiple PRs to awesome-* projects, I submitted them in the hopes of contributing to lists where I thought the project might be relevant. However, I fully respect the maintainers' decision to include what they deem appropriate.

Thank you for your understanding and encouragement!

[mnalis]

Of course I encourage the repo maintainers to add what they see fit.

While I helped trying to format this PR to be more usable if it were to be accepted, I absolutely agree that the maintainer should make a decision about where they'd want to take this project (and document it).

I.e., besides project having to be "awesome" (which is obviously highly subjective, and always subject to maintainer's final decision), should:

1. non-FOSS projects be accepted in the list (never / always / only in very exceptional circumstances) ?
2. walled-garden (i.e. requiring account to access) projects be accepted in the list (never / always / only those requiring OSM login / only if creating account is gratis and project is non-commercial / only if creating account is gratis (but upsell is fine) / only in very exceptional circumstances) ?

my personal preferences would be:

1. only in very exceptional circumstances (e.g. hugely popular HDYC)
2. only those requiring OSM login (but might accept "only if creating account is gratis and project is non-commercial" too)

[alt250]

I.e., besides project having to be "awesome" (which is obviously highly subjective, and always subject to maintainer's final decision), should:

non-FOSS projects be accepted in the list (never / always / only in very exceptional circumstances) ?
walled-garden (i.e. requiring account to access) projects be accepted in the list (never / always / only those requiring OSM login / only if creating account is gratis and project is non-commercial / only if creating account is gratis (but upsell is fine) / only in very exceptional circumstances) ?

I fully understand that the submission of this project triggered these questions.
However, would discussions be a more appropriate place to discuss such matters? It may bring more visibility than this PR

[Unkn0wnCat]

Heyo everyone,

sorry I've been a bit absent from this conversation. Thanks for all the input to this conversation from everyone!

As mentioned by @alt250 we should move the discussion about adding non-free stuff to the Discussions tab. I've just created a topic there with my view of the problem: #158

Let's put this PR on ice for the length of the discussion.

I encourage everyone who contibuted to this conversation to take part in the discussion:
@alt250 @mnalis @mtmail