>From their wiki - "The Wayfinder software is a client-server based system for navigation and different related location-based-services, including mapping and searching for places and addresses. The server is designed to be highly scalable and has a distributed architecture and runs on Linux CentOS operating system. Several clients, supporting a wide range of mobile phone platforms, are available and includes navigation clients for Symbian S60, iPhone and Android. Support for importing Open Street Map data is available."
Looks like Vodafone have lost interest and open sourced it. Kevin On 21 July 2010 11:48, Andy Allan <gravityst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Jaak Laineste <jaak.laine...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > It seems that this news is not commented by OSM community. From > > http://oss.wayfinder.com/ : > > > > "For development purposes Vodafone Wayfinder host a small server > > cluster with free map data from the Open Street Map database. > > Unfortunately the Wayfinder Server is not developed to operate > > directly on this dataset making routing very unreliable, however, you > > are more than welcome to help out fixing those issues :)" > > > > "The majority of all the location and navigation related software > > developed at Wayfinder Systems, a fully owned Vodafone subsidiary, is > > made available publicly under a BSD licence." > > Initially sounds cool, but I have no idea what it actually is, or how > cool it actually is :-) If someone can translate from "Wayfinder talk" > to OSM language (e.g. is it an alternative to nominatim, or geoserver, > or whatnot) then I'd have a better idea about it! > > Cheers, > Andy > > _______________________________________________ > talk mailing list > talk@openstreetmap.org > http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk >
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