2007/9/10, Peter Stuart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > is the issue here also concerning the > open sourcing of cartography? > are companies like tele-atlas > open source or not?
Teleatlas is definitly not open source. There are projects to produce open map data. One of them is http://www.openstreetmap.org/ I worked on Antwerp a bit, together with other people. Due to lack of time, activity has stopped for a while. In holland (where the comunity is langer, and more active) there is a company who donated all of their data to the project. It's cheaper to let the community do the updating ... <http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=223> There is also some navigating software for linux which is using the free data. Garmin-gps-systems work with linux. I mean you can download and upload data to them using ao NMEA-protocol which is pretty standard afaik. -- wannes -- ubuntu-be mailing list / mailto:ubuntu-be@lists.ubuntu.com You can find list info and your subscription configuration options at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-be
