Re: [talk-ph] Navteq/Nokia finally shows their mapping data for the Philippines

2010-02-07 Thread Ray
Ronny Ager-Wick - Develo Ltd. schrieb: I think the best way to detect theft of data is an old and proven one, making certain (privately documented) mistakes on purpose, so you can check if the map in question includes it. As most of you well know, it's not possible to copyright reality, but

Re: [talk-ph] Navteq/Nokia finally shows their mapping data for the Philippines

2010-02-06 Thread maning sambale
Out of simple curiosity, is there a way to detect that some of our data was conflated into the navteq ph coverage? I believe navteq contracted a local company to update Philippine data. Looking at their maps, the road data for Metro Manila and surrounding area seems good and somewhat

Re: [talk-ph] Navteq/Nokia finally shows their mapping data for the Philippines

2010-02-06 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 12:55 PM, maning sambale emmanuel.samb...@gmail.comwrote: Out of simple curiosity, is there a way to detect that some of our data was conflated into the navteq ph coverage? I believe navteq contracted a local company to update Philippine data. Based on the areas I've

[talk-ph] Navteq/Nokia finally shows their mapping data for the Philippines

2010-02-05 Thread Eugene Alvin Villar
I have been checking out http://maps.ovi.com and until recently, Nokia had only been showing the public domain VMAP0 data (which is data only good for 1:1,000,000 scale maps--meaning low resolution). Nokia announced recently that they would be offering free turn-by-turn navigation and I guess,