On Thu, 2007-01-11 at 15:48 -0800, Sean Moss-Pultz wrote: > On 1/11/07 3:38 PM, "Koen Kooi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> If there's enough interest, it might be cool to just sell the mapping data > > > > Raster or vector, and with or without address data? > > This would be the raw stuff that companies like TomTom, Navigon, and > Destinator, parse. I don't even know if they will let us license this for an > totally open phone. We use it on other projects inside FIC. > > I've used Maemo Mapper but I don't know about the internals. Does anyone > know if this would be useful? It really would be neat to have a open source > engine with real (legal) mapping data.
Maemo Mapper uses Raster maps. There is a project called openstreetmap.org in order to create free/open maps. For the quality of the output look here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Image:CentralChester.png Creating maps of your own area is easy. Go to http://www.openstreetmap.org/index.html , create a login, choose your area and click edit. There is a Java Applet with Yahoo sat imagery that lets you insert nodes, segments and streets. Its a bit like wikipedia - if enough people help there will be soon enough maps. Apart from that one can use vmap0 data (freely available) to create maps till ~1:1.000.000 paper equivalent which is at least good enough for navigation from village to village. Marcus _______________________________________________ OpenMoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community