On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 11:36, John Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > On 8 April 2010 15:15, <[email protected]> wrote: >> It looks like the TomTom will not be difficult to write code for. TomTom >> themselves recognise that they have used OpenSource code to develop it, and >> provide the open source bits of the software (linux kernels, libraries, and >> compiler) (http://www.tomtom.com/page.php?Page=gpl). > > Wouldn't it be better just working out their data format, like someone > has done with garmin? > > Especially since they may use the same format for other platforms, > than trying to hack the hardware and/or coming up with custom OS > builds...
Sure, if you can get it to work it should work just fine. I think you're underestimating the effort that goes into reverse engineering a format. Many man-years have gone into reverse engineering the Garmin format (and it's still not fully understood), the Microsoft Office format and Flash just to name a few. Getting a completely different stack of programs to work on new hardware might be relatively easy by comparison. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
