Re: [josm-dev] An incredible and unexpected use of JOSM

2013-09-11 Thread Maarten Deen

On 2013-09-11 09:21, Florian Lohoff wrote:


But i wouldnt be worried - There will be a day where OSM will be THE
ONLY important map provider. Its economically not possible for Nokia
and TomTom to get the same map detail level as we do. So they'll
highlight the crowd nature of OSM and try to spread FUD about
reliability and accuracy of OSM for the next 10 Years.

This has all happened before in the Linux universe and in the end
there is Linux on any embedded device and server and the Desktop,
Microsoft has been dominating for 30 Years will be irrelevant by
tomorrow.


This is so true. We only have to wait. Once OSM will be more and more 
known by the public and they see that they can get maps and updates for 
the entire world for free and that they can get updated maps 
(technically) every single day instead of having to pay € 100 euro 
(usually much more for in-car nav) for just the map or a year's worth of 
updates then the consumer will demand it.


Really the only thing car manufacturers need to install in a car is an 
Android tablet.


What we can do to accelerate that process is to make the map even 
better. So basically: carry on.


Maarten


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Re: [josm-dev] An incredible and unexpected use of JOSM

2013-09-11 Thread ael
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 09:55:42AM +0200, Maarten Deen wrote:
 Really the only thing car manufacturers need to install in a car is
 an Android tablet.

No a linux tablet, like the Pengpod :-)

ael


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Re: [josm-dev] An incredible and unexpected use of JOSM

2013-09-11 Thread Toby Murray
On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 2:55 AM, Maarten Deen md...@xs4all.nl wrote:

 On 2013-09-11 09:21, Florian Lohoff wrote:

  But i wouldnt be worried - There will be a day where OSM will be THE
 ONLY important map provider. Its economically not possible for Nokia
 and TomTom to get the same map detail level as we do. So they'll
 highlight the crowd nature of OSM and try to spread FUD about
 reliability and accuracy of OSM for the next 10 Years.

 This has all happened before in the Linux universe and in the end
 there is Linux on any embedded device and server and the Desktop,
 Microsoft has been dominating for 30 Years will be irrelevant by
 tomorrow.


  This is so true. We only have to wait.  [...]


... and map!

Toby
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