On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Christ van Willegen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Nishit Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Would you prefer "aaah...thanks for using me as your phone", or "life, > don't > > talk on me about it" modes? > > > This is where location-aware (preferably in 4D) comes in. "Hey, you're > close to the supermarket, and it's open, and you need (these) > groceries". All this preferably e-spoken, ofcourse... > Yes. And then we can sample our wives' voices to use with festival? > > This is where a _good_ OpenStreetMap comes in. You'll need a map that > is as correct as possible, and with as many POI's on it as possible. > Get your government to open up its road database. It's already being > done in Europe, and the USA has already donated its Tiger database as > well. > We have learnt that it is better to do it yourself. Which is why the ILUG-BOM [1] had organized an OSM Sprint [2]. Yours truly may be witnessed in the list - complaining about the FR. I really would love to see (a) reliable phone functions, and (b) GPRS GUI working so I can exploit the FR's tremendous potential. [1] http://www.glug-bom.org [2] http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/pipermail/linuxers/Week-of-Mon-20080818/064466.html
_______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
