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Nokia is buying Navteq
I am not sure how true this is, but the people over at Engadget are pretty good at getting good information before blogging. They are reporting that Nokia pruchased navteq a big mapping company.
I am not sure they will enhance the N800, but any new products would benefit from this incorporation. |
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It was formally announced today.
This is a good fit. I like it. :) Also, analysts are beating up NOK stock for it... |
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I like this move from Nokia. Garmin is one of the biggest clients of Navteq and in the US, Garmin navigation devices have the best maps. This would mean same Garmin-quality maps for Nokia devices.
Now can we infer that the next Internet Tablet will have built-in GPS and navigation? ;) |
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I'm pretty sure that the lack of Nokia Maps on the N800 has more to do with not castrating Navicore than because they simply don't want to do it.
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Hey, why would gnuites work go to waste? It's a totally different thing from vector based mapping solution. And it's completely open. I'm really looking forward to seeing the 2.0 version soon.
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Google maps works fine for me via MaemoMapper. Of course I'd try out any other mapping software if it was free.
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Porting it to Maemo would take some quantity of work, along with a top-to-bottom recognition of Maemo as a viable platform. No, they said "all N-series devices" because one part of a big multinational company forgot about the small corner doing the NITs. |
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I'm really happy Maemo Mapper now uses OpenStreetMaps as the default map set. While OSM is missing in many places, countries like UK and Netherlands are already quite complete. And this is fully open data we can do interesting things with. Things like downloading the raw data once and then rendering tiles locally, or calculating routes without internet connection... |
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Unless Nokia/Navteq releases software and map data that are both free and open (highly unlikely), Maemo Mapper will always useful. It's a fun hobby, after all, even if the code is growing unwieldy. :)
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What I'm wondering, when the new tablet is released with a rumored (cough!) GPS receiver and possible mapping software, will it become free or do we just get a free ripped down teaser version? Or possibly 30-day trial, such as Rhapsody? If I want to use all the routing features, do I have to purchase a license with x amount of money? If a purchased license is needed for real use, then I can see MaemoMapper keeping its customer base. But what if it is completely free? Maybe we should not speculate too much... :rolleyes: EDIT: I did some "homework" and let's say that please keep working on MaemoMapper, Gnuite. |
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It will never be completly free. Making these maps is just to expensive. You buy software and maps and a gps receiver if the device doesn't contain one. Nokia does this on their mobilephones aswell. So why change it for the N800? They could perhaps make it free if they'd stuff the navigationsoftware full of ads.
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It's not totally free, but definitely semi-free. |
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