On 01/-10/-28163 08:59 PM, Maarten Deen wrote: > John Smith wrote: >> Anyone feel like promoting OSM? > > Has been done by Stefan de Konink. Reply from the CEO of Nav4All: > "OSM has been looked at but is no solution because there is no full > coverage". Stefan asked if Nav4All would cease activities, the reply was > "we are still negotiating with other parties".
Even if promoting to the company did not work, it might still be worth promoting OSM in the media coverage / blogs of the Nav4All shutdown as a reason why it is important to have free and open map data to prevent anti-competitive activities by a few large companies. Skobbler seems to have been in a similar situation that has also been pressured out of (or wasn't able to pay for) a NavTeq license, but instead did choose to swap to OpenStreetMap. It will be interesting to see how the various small and independent navigation companies will react to that all the large map data providers are now locked in to companies mainly selling end user devices and as it seems increasingly willing to use this to force out competition in the nav market to cross subsidize their actual business else where. Hopefully OpenStreetMap will be seen as an alternative by them and create great new apps on top of OSM, so that in return more people will see the benefit of contributing to OSM. Kai > > See also [1] with subject Nav4All (in Dutch) or [2] for the translated > message from Stefan. > > [1] > <http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-nl/2010-January/subject.html> > > [2] > <http://babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=bf-home&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Flists.openstreetmap.org%2Fpipermail%2Ftalk-nl%2F2010-January%2F010630.html&lp=nl_en&btnTrUrl=Translate> > > > Regards, > Maarten > > >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Nav4All <nore...@nav4all.com> >> Date: 31 January 2010 12:55 >> Subject: Nav4All navigation shut down by Navteq >> >> >> Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 28-01-2010 16:30 GMT+1 >> >> Subject: Nav4All navigation shut down by Navteq >> >> Letter to 27,625,631 Nav4All navigation customers >> >> Dear Customers, >> >> It is with the deepest regret that we hereby notify you that the >> global navigation of Nav4All and the Tracking & Tracing will go >> offline in 3 days. The reason for the same is that the data licence >> agreement with Navteq (a 100% Nokia subsidiary) was not extended, in >> a totally unexpected manner. It is not possible to implement data >> from another supplier in our Nav4All systems within the short term. >> The Nav4All navigation system was developed for Navteq data. Nav4All >> has therefore been constrained to stop. >> >> We greatly regret the fact that we have to suspend the operation of >> our service. With your help, we have developed Nav4All into a global >> product with 27.5 million users in 56 languages, in 5 years. This has >> made Nav4All the largest navigation supplier. This large number of >> users also has to do with the fact that Nav4All works on hundreds of >> different mobile telephones of many makes such as Blackberry, Sony >> Ericsson, Samsung, Motorola, Android, HTC, Nokia, LG, Iphone, Ipod >> etc. >> >> After 5 years of testing and market development, we witnessed rapid - >> in fact, exponential - growth during the last two years. That growth >> was reported in the licence reports to Navteq. In mid-December 2009, >> the global coverage was extended to include the Philippines, Morocco >> and Kenya. >> >> Please contact the Nav4All support desk in case you have any >> questions: www.nav4all.com/support. If there is any further >> information from Nav4All concerning the subject of this letter, the >> same will be published on our website: www.nav4all.com. For reasons >> of privacy, Nav4All does not have the email addresses of all its >> customers, and we therefore request you to forward this email to the >> maximum extent possible, in order to ensure that everyone is >> informed. >> >> Kind Regards, >> >> Hennie J.M. Groot Koerkamp (CEO) >> >> Nav4All BV >> >> Keizersgracht 62-64 >> >> 1015 CS Amsterdam NL >> >> The text of this e-mail will be available on our website as soon as >> possible in the following languages: Dutch, French, German, Italian, >> Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, and Indonesian. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> talk mailing list >> talk@openstreetmap.org >> http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >> > > > _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
