Well, sure I would and probably will, but the case for maps for a frequently traveling people with reliable coverage remains. I don't think it will disturb my decision of buying the device, but non-geek users will rather take mapping software for granted being advertised a gps enabled phone.
<br>That may as well be the resellers issue.<br><br><br><br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">2007/1/25, Dave Crossland <<a href="mailto:dave@lab6.com">dave@lab6.com</a>>:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 24/01/07, Dominik Smogór <<a href="mailto:dsmogor@gmail.com">dsmogor@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Is FIC in talks with some company now? I'm sure that OSS devs will put a<br>> fervent effort to write/adopt a free replacement and I'm sure they (we, If I
<br>> manage to get some time off) will succeed, but it's the data that matters<br>> and I don't know of a resource of quality data that is public domain, esp.<br>> outside of most urbanized areas of USA/Western Europe.
<br>> Getting data through GPRS could be a solution, but a largely suboptimal one<br>> from the cost standpoint.<br><br>The software that is powering the USA/W.European public mapping<br>efforts - <a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org">
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org</a> - is free software, afaik, and<br>I know of no reason why you in your part of the world cannot join<br>these efforts :-)<br><br>I thought this animation of the european coverage growing was beautiful:
<br><br><a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/images/2/2e/Europe_coverage.gif">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/images/2/2e/Europe_coverage.gif</a><br><br><br>--<br>Regards,<br>Dave<br></blockquote></div><br>