Slashdot has an interesting item; http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/09/2216255/TomTom-Anounces-an-Open-Source-GPS-Technology?art_pos=1
*"According to OStatic, European company TomTom (which recently settled a patent agreement<http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/03/30/1853219/TomTom-Settles-With-Microsoft>with Microsoft) has announced a new open source format OpenLR <http://www.tomtom.com/page/openLR> for sharing routing data (relevant points, traffic information...) in digital maps of different vendors, to be used in GPS devices. The LR stands for Location Referencing. They aim is to push it as an open standard to build a cooperative information base<http://ostatic.com/blog/tomtom-launches-open-source-navigation-project>, presumably in a similar way than its current TomTom Map Share technology in which end users provide map corrections on the fly. The technology to support the format will be released as GPLv2. Does it make OpenLR a GPL GPS?"*
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