I concur 100%. Interestingly, Jaron Waldman is listed as one of the
inventors. His company, Placebase, was purchased by Apple a few years
ago. Placebase was using the old KaMap libraries with heavy
modifications to them in the creation of their product.
After reading the patent application claims, it is clear that what is
described has been in place for numerous years by a variety of open
source projects. I don't see any new invention.
Best regards,
Jon Scarbrough
VP Technology
Where2GetIt.com
On 12/21/2013 12:05 AM, Venkatesh Raghavan wrote:
Dear All,
I think the OSGeo should express strong objection to the "Interactive
Map"
patent filed by Apple on 17 Dec 2012 [1]. The contents of the patent [1]
describe features that OSGeo software already provides for over a decade.
Best
Venka
[1]
http://appft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-adv.html&r=2&p=1&f=G&l=50&d=PG01&S1=%28715%2F771.CCLS.+AND+20131219.PD.%29&OS=ccl/715/771+and+pd/12/19/2013&RS=%28CCL/715/771+AND+PD/20131219%29
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