+1 and agree — it's an opportunity and Mozilla could make a difference with a maps service app. Perhaps an initial experiment could start with a niche app and not aiming a global scale maps app but aiming an evaluation with a well defined topic and goal to serve some effort within Mozilla.
m On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 2:17 PM, Julien Wajsberg <[email protected]> wrote: > You can still install the Nokia HERE Maps from the marketplace if you > change your "region" in the marketplace. > > and +1 for a open street map app with offline capability ;) > > Le 20/01/2014 17:05, Reuben Morais a écrit : >> We used to have Nokia HERE as a built-in app, but it's no longer included in >> my builds. We have a couple of Maps apps on the Marketplace but each one of >> them lacks in some critical area, meaning I have to switch between apps (and >> manually copy the context I was in) to get from A to B. >> >> Maps are an integral part of the smartphone experience today, so much that >> Google, Microsoft, Apple and Nokia each have their own solutions. I feel >> like there's an opportunity for us to do something with OpenStreetMaps to >> provide a very good maps application on Firefox OS, on top of community >> driven open data (bonus points for aligning with our way of doing things). >> >> Do we have any plans in this area? >> >> -- reuben >> _______________________________________________ >> dev-b2g mailing list >> [email protected] >> https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g > > > > _______________________________________________ > dev-b2g mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g > -- www.telasocial.com _______________________________________________ dev-b2g mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-b2g
