<div dir="ltr">On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 5:56 PM, Christ van Willegen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cvwillegen@gmail.com">cvwillegen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 1:28 PM, Nishit Dave <<a href="mailto:stargazer.dave@gmail.com">stargazer.dave@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> Would you prefer "aaah...thanks for using me as your phone", or "life, don't<br>
> talk on me about it" modes?<br>
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This is where location-aware (preferably in 4D) comes in. "Hey, you're<br>
close to the supermarket, and it's open, and you need (these)<br>
groceries". All this preferably e-spoken, ofcourse...<br>
</blockquote><div><br>Yes. And then we can sample our wives' voices to use with festival?<br> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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This is where a _good_ OpenStreetMap comes in. You'll need a map that<br>
is as correct as possible, and with as many POI's on it as possible.<br>
Get your government to open up its road database. It's already being<br>
done in Europe, and the USA has already donated its Tiger database as<br>
well.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>We have learnt that it is better to do it yourself. Which is why the ILUG-BOM [1] had organized an OSM Sprint [2].<br><br>Yours truly may be witnessed in the list - complaining about the FR. I really would love to see (a) reliable phone functions, and (b) GPRS GUI working so I can exploit the FR's tremendous potential. <br>
<br>[1] <a href="http://www.glug-bom.org">http://www.glug-bom.org</a> <br>[2] <a href="http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/pipermail/linuxers/Week-of-Mon-20080818/064466.html">http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/pipermail/linuxers/Week-of-Mon-20080818/064466.html</a><br>
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