http://slashgeo.org/2012/05/29/TomTom-Takes-Stand-Against-Open-Source-Mapping
"TomTom Navigation has a recently launched article on what they call the 'negative aspects' of open data projects such as OpenStreetMap. As there are no hard facts and details to the studies they refer, the OSM community identified this release as classical 'Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt'." Sent to you by termal12 via Google Reader: TomTom Takes a Stand Against Open Source Mapping via Planet OSGeo by Satri on 5/29/12 In what looks like "First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win", Slashdot discusses TomTom's fight against OpenStreetMap and open source maps. The Slashdot summary: "TomTom Navigation has a recently launched article on what they call the 'negative aspects' of open data projects such as OpenStreetMap. As there are no hard facts and details to the studies they refer, the OSM community identified this release as classical 'Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt'." That second link on FUD is pretty informative. Related, last January we mentioned an article comparing TomTom and OpenStreetMap data in Germany. Google Plus One Things you can do from here: - Subscribe to Planet OSGeo using Google Reader - Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites
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