TomTom on Openmoko?

[Joseph Reeves]

Navigation and OSM data submittal?

What's wrong with tangogps? Sounds like it already does what you ask for:

http://www.tangogps.org/

Joseph



On 27/03/2008, ramsesoriginal <ramsesoriginal at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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