Thread: HERE Maps has been sold
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2015-08-09 , 09:20
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[QUOTE=hedayat;1479050]While OSM might not be as complete as GoogleMaps (or Nokia) (well, it highly depends on the area. some areas have high quality maps donated by governments or companies. In my area, it really has usually better coverage than Nokia one which lacks a lot in details).
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Thing is its far from complete compared to HERE and GMaps.

Originally Posted by hedayat View Post
But, it is not my point. The point is that I think if community is going to back some mapping, OSM probably deserves it more than any other commercial solution. It is really unfortunate that Google receives many contributions form people while (AFAIK) it has restricted licensing.
Ofcourse it is but that's the main problem. Normal people does not give a **** about licensing. They only use apps that is easy to use and easy to contribute. AFAIK those apps that exists for OSD is not user friendly in the first place. Thats is a must to success. Make apps that look good and is easy to navigate/use or else no one will use it except some FOSS people.

What they want is a decent good navapp and good maps in the first place. Last time I tried to take a look at the API it was not even near stable. Maybe this has changed lately.

But the apps OSD apps for Jolla is definitivly no go so far.
 

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