Flemming Richter Mikkelsen wrote:
On 3/31/07, *Patrick Beck* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
Hello,
i follow the deployment of the Neo1973 and Openmoko since they become
public.
I have discussed with a few others on the IRC, about the Idea to use
tomtom on the Neo1973. I think it will be very cool :) I had no problem
to pay money for a good software and rich in detail maps. It is hard
work to create good maps (see http://www.openstreetmap.org).
Therefore I would like to support openstreetmap.org
<http://openstreetmap.org>
Openstreetmap is shit.
At the moment.
I say this as a contributor,
http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html?lat=56.19321236291454&lon=-3.165765060997736&zoom=12
(select the cross on the right, pick 'osmarender') (all my own work
(except the railway)
I intend to -slowly- fill out Glenrothes - 40K population, some 300Km of
roads, maybe a few hundred points of interest.
A map that completely omits towns and cities with populations of 150K,
or millions in some parts of the world is a complete joke as an end-user
device,for the 99.999% of the worlds surface that is not well mapped.
When many people want to use tomtom on the Neo1973, it would be a good
precondition to assure tomtom from this idea to sell tomtom for the
Openmoko platform. tomtom devices already run under linux, so i think it
will not so hard to port it on Openmoko.
I think tomtom should be optional in addition to openstreetmap.
Openstreetmap should not be replaced, and it should be easy to update
openstreetmap. We could make some nice UI for that. But people have
different needs; and for those that need detailed maps and can afford
it, maybe tomtom is better.
Of course tomtom can't be installed by default - without a huge per-item
subsidy.
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