On 06/07/2010 06:22 PM, Andrew Errington wrote:

We should seriously look at OSM (www.osm.org) as a backend map source for
Xastir.

I have mentioned it a couple of times here, and it surprises me that
no-one seems to be in the least bit interested.

How about it?

73,

Andrew


FWIW,

I'm totally for this idea. I've used OSM with the "TangoGPS" software and am quite pleased with it. This is a map that appears similar to Google Maps - itself an oft requested format for Xastir.

Including OSM support would effectively deal with these "two issues" in one go.

Now, a question could be - is OSM going to be around and reliable long enough to be worth the investment in time and effort? That's outside my paygrade to make that call. But, the prognosis is good from my limited perspective.

73
http://www.tangogps.org/gps/cat/About
Released under GPLv
_______________________________________________
Xastir mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.xastir.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xastir

Reply via email to