An iPhone app maker in Germany had the same problem, and they're now switching to OSM.
Here's a news report and their statement (in German): http://www.handelsblatt.com/technologie/mobile-welt/navigon-gegen-skobbler-kriegszustand-in-naviland;2486799 http://blog.skobbler.de/2009/12/die-neue-karte-osm/ John Smith schrieb: > Anyone feel like promoting OSM? > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Nav4All <[email protected]> > Date: 31 January 2010 12:55 > Subject: Nav4All navigation shut down by Navteq > > > Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 28-01-2010 16:30 GMT+1 > > Subject: Nav4All navigation shut down by Navteq > > Letter to 27,625,631 Nav4All navigation customers > > Dear Customers, > > It is with the deepest regret that we hereby notify you that the > global navigation of Nav4All and the Tracking & Tracing will go > offline in 3 days. The reason for the same is that the data licence > agreement with Navteq (a 100% Nokia subsidiary) was not extended, in > a totally unexpected manner. It is not possible to implement data > from another supplier in our Nav4All systems within the short term. > The Nav4All navigation system was developed for Navteq data. Nav4All > has therefore been constrained to stop. > > We greatly regret the fact that we have to suspend the operation of > our service. With your help, we have developed Nav4All into a global > product with 27.5 million users in 56 languages, in 5 years. This has > made Nav4All the largest navigation supplier. This large number of > users also has to do with the fact that Nav4All works on hundreds of > different mobile telephones of many makes such as Blackberry, Sony > Ericsson, Samsung, Motorola, Android, HTC, Nokia, LG, Iphone, Ipod > etc. > > After 5 years of testing and market development, we witnessed rapid - > in fact, exponential - growth during the last two years. That growth > was reported in the licence reports to Navteq. In mid-December 2009, > the global coverage was extended to include the Philippines, Morocco > and Kenya. > > Please contact the Nav4All support desk in case you have any > questions: www.nav4all.com/support. If there is any further > information from Nav4All concerning the subject of this letter, the > same will be published on our website: www.nav4all.com. For reasons > of privacy, Nav4All does not have the email addresses of all its > customers, and we therefore request you to forward this email to the > maximum extent possible, in order to ensure that everyone is > informed. > > Kind Regards, > > Hennie J.M. Groot Koerkamp (CEO) > > Nav4All BV > > Keizersgracht 62-64 > > 1015 CS Amsterdam NL > > The text of this e-mail will be available on our website as soon as > possible in the following languages: Dutch, French, German, Italian, > Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Arabic, Russian, and Indonesian. _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
