GPS Navigation Software (roadster)

[openmoko at mauve.plus.com]

>> Thomas Gstädtner wrote:
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> several times there was the question about (free) navigation software
>>> for
>>> OpenMoko.
>>> I found an possible alternative to gpsdrive: roadster [1]
>>> It seems that it is in a relatively early stage and I couldn't test it,
>>> but
>>> it looks nice.
>>> I also don't know what kind of maps can be used.

This is the basic problem - there are _no_ freely available maps of the
world. Some small parts of it have governments that have released maps, of
varying quality.
Otherwise, you have to buy maps.
And there is nobody that sells digital maps to end users.
They all want to sell the maps to third parties (google, garmin, ...) not
end users, as that's where they percieve the profit is.
The nightmare scenario for the map companies is that data that they have
gathered, which may have taken them centuries of effort in some cases,
gets freely available.