On Jan 25, 2008 5:42 PM, hank williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Again, since you seem to have missed it. The thing that you say no one > will opt for (over the air maps), is the way that millions of phones > per month are shipped from Apple and RIM today. Therefore the > configuration is highly relevant to the *current* phone market.
The point that you are missing is that Openmoko doesn't have to do everything the same way Apple and RIM do them; better to weight the pros and cons on their technical merits. You seem to be in an argumentative mood. IMO to have map data instantly accessible from Flash without having to go out over the network is wonderful, and 256 megs is a small price to pay for it. Of course, we'll see if anybody manages to get the OSM dataset actually compressed down that small. planet.osm.bz2 is several gigs, but navit is claiming to have a much more compact binary format. Or you could just carry data for areas where you might be likely to actually travel. http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Planet.osm _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
