Also said they intended to keep Navteq as a separate operating unit.
This is a play to get first dibs on location-based services maps. I
anticipate they'll still sell those to competitors, but that the price
may go up a bit. If they go up too much someone else will fill the void.
gerry
Richard Polivka, N6NKO wrote:
Nokia bought Navteq for $6.8B US, either this week or last week.
Now the fun begins....
73 from 807,
Richard, N6NKO
Tom Russo wrote:
On Fri, Oct 05, 2007 at 10:53:12PM -0500, we recorded a
bogon-computron collision of the <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> flavor,
containing:
Google and Mapquest get their basemaps, if memory serves, from
Navtech. No one seriously uses Tiger anymore for "real"
applications. After USGS migrated to SDTS format Tiger was the only
decent alternative, for some low value of decent. It was based on
the original USGS maps, regardless of what Census told you.
However, Census munges them for their purposes (census work,
interestingly enough) and effectively renders them less than adequate
for "real" mapping.
In other words, "These maps should come with a consumer product
safety warning."
And this is the last year that TIGER/Line data will be released in
that format.
According to their web site, they will start releasing the Census maps in
shapefile format --- but from the looks of it, these shapefiles will
NOT be
very useful for the purpose of drawing road maps. The dbf fields they
plan
to include are very clearly designed solely for census purposes, and they
will be missing a lot of the data that we rely on for rendering.
Lee Bengston wrote:
On 10/5/07, Jason Winningham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Oct 5, 2007, at 8:48 AM, I wrote:
http://roadnav.sourceforge.net/
Ah, this is more like it. At a glance: maps - so what? looks a lot
like xastir (maybe they do a bit better job rendering labels).
Keep looking: vector maps, rendered by the app, included routing,
vector maps based on TIGER data.
Looks good, but I couldn't get enough data downloaded/converted to
try anything interested - got tired of it continuously bombing on the
mac. Oh well, another one bites the dust.
I wasn't able to get the roadnav deb package to install in andLinux,
but I
was able to compile it from source after installing wxwidgets from the
ubuntu respository. Not a bad program - with the Tiger maps, they are
labeling the highways better, and I like they way they display the
minor
streets at high zoom levels.
However, it's the same old TigerMap problem at intermediate zoom
levels -
either no street labels at all or labels in a very tiny hard to read
font
depending on the exact zoom. The same view in Google, Mapquest,
etc. shows
the street names clearly. I don't care about looking really slick like
Google does, but street labels that I can read are important.
But the above is in the context of XASTIR and seeing APRS stations in
certain views. Using Roadnav on a trip should be fine - can zoom in
or out
as needed - only need to track one vehicle. Overall I would say it's a
pretty nice package.
Lee-K5DAT
Murphy, TX
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