On Wednesday 18 February 2009, Cédric Berger wrote: > 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...
I may be misunderstanding the suggestion, but I don't think it had anything to do with data from ublox. The suggestion was to use data sent by other freerunner users instead of the data supplied by ublox. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
