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mced 2015-08-05 09:42
HERE Maps has been sold
 
http://company.nokia.com/en/news/pre...eur-28-billion
http://360.here.com/2015/08/03/the-future-is-here/

Any reason to be worried?

juiceme 2015-08-05 09:59
Re: HERE Maps has been sold
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by mced (Post 1478720)
Any reason to be worried?
I see no reason to worry really.

If you are worried that support for mobile maps applications would decrease on the premise that automotive is going to be primary platform, that probably does not happen.

mced 2015-08-05 11:23
Re: HERE Maps has been sold
 
I'm worried about paying per use.

Not really for me, but for Sailfish. If we got a bunch of cheap Android devices with "free" GPS based on Google Maps and €250 Sailfish phones have to pay €5 or €10 per month for the same service, the disadvantage will be even bigger.

MINKIN2 2015-08-05 11:42
Re: HERE Maps has been sold
 
Good to here that HERE is staying in europe and it's nice to see that car manufacturers are finally getting some decent mapping software for their automobiles.

HtheB 2015-08-05 16:23
Re: HERE Maps has been sold
 
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Originally Posted by MINKIN2 (Post 1478728)
Good to here that HERE is staying in europe and it's nice to see that car manufacturers are finally getting some decent mapping software for their automobiles.
The manufactures that bought HERE Maps, were already using HERE Maps...

hedayat 2015-08-05 17:40
Re: HERE Maps has been sold
 
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Originally Posted by otsaloma (Post 1478731)
There's no particular reason to be worried, but these kinds of things show how dangerous it is for application authors to rely too much on a single provider and how important it is to abstract your code so that if needed you have a data backend that you easily switch to another provider without it affecting your whole codebase or UI. The big problem is that there's a lack of modern one-stop global map data providers with public platform-independent APIs -- the only alternative I'm aware of is Mapbox.
Why not OpenStreetMap? I think it is one of the best solutions to gather community contributions for. It might not be the best and the most complete map, but it can be.

MINKIN2 2015-08-05 18:08
Re: HERE Maps has been sold
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by HtheB (Post 1478745)
The manufactures that bought HERE Maps, were already using HERE Maps...
That I did not know. Perhaps their UI designs will improve to reflect their purchase now? ;)

HtheB 2015-08-05 18:16
Re: HERE Maps has been sold
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by MINKIN2 (Post 1478757)
That I did not know. Perhaps their UI designs will improve to reflect their purchase now? ;)
It has nothing to do with UI. They bought the MAPS, again, it has NOTHING to do with UI whatsoever. They just don't need to pay for the license anymore, and other companies has to pay THEM license money now :p

chenliangchen 2015-08-05 20:04
Re: HERE Maps has been sold
 
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Originally Posted by Foxkia (Post 1478761)
Do you have enough intelligence to determine the date of this video and relevancy with this the topic?

endsormeans 2015-08-05 21:01
Re: HERE Maps has been sold
 
That is literally a rumour from a year ago.
the word "MAY" being used...
How about verification more recent... and a current ...concrete "IS" as in "It IS now in being set up, or available for use" rather than rehashing old rumoured "possible-it-may-come-someday-butit-ain't-here-yet" news.
otherwise we should all just start doing...

oh wait sec ..
Breaking News everybody!


Nokia releases new Maemo based device!

http://company.nokia.com/en/news/pre...tarts-shipping

[at least this ^ actually has happened]


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