TomTom on Openmoko?

[ramsesoriginal]

I am of the idea that a navigation system would be THE killer-app for
the openmoko, and I personally know many persons that would also pay
extra money to have a navigator on a phone. We have various
possibilities: we could try to make some sort of deal with TomTom,
write our own system based on OSM (and btw we could let the openmokos
submit data to osm at the same time to increase accuracy), or (and
that's my favorite) we could try to make something based on google
maps/earth. The whole engime is already there[1], as are also the
maps. Just make some changes to add gps capabilities, and it's great!

2008/3/27 Marcin Juszkiewicz <openembedded at haerwu.biz>:
> Dnia Thursday 27 of March 2008, Christ van Willegen napisał:
>
> > Hi,
>  >
>  > On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 1:30 PM, Sebastian Hammerl
>  >
>  > <sebastian at music-starvation.de> wrote:
>  > >  as far as i know on the TomTom go devices is running Linux. So would
>  > > it be possible to rip out the TomTom applikation and get it to work
>  > > on Openmoko phone? It would be a great GPS application.
>  >
>  > Why not use tangoGPS and OpenStreetMap maps?
>
>  Because OSM maps suxx? Lack details, lack streets, lack too many things to
>  be usable?
>
>  OSM is nice idea but it is only idea. It will never replace commercial
>  maps.
>
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