On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 16:52, Helge Hafting <helge.haft...@hist.no> wrote: > Timo Juhani Lindfors wrote: >> mqy <meng.qing...@gmail.com> writes: >>> It is not a problem that user account is required when download u-blox >>> online >>> aiding data. >> >> It is a problem since u-blox might go out of business and you might >> not want to tell them where you are all time. Their server also might >> be down. There are plenty of reasons to remove dependency to any >> single party. > > It is possible to start an open service, with mirrors. Interested people > can set their freerunners to send in good aiding data when they have it > (i.e. when using the gps and a network is available.)
Infos downloaded from u-blox are only valid for some time. So if server is down for more than just a short time, it won't help much. And I did not check but not I am not sure u-blox terms of service allow to redistribute... _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community