Thread: Maemo 5: HSPA is good for location based services
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2008-10-08 , 20:46
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Originally Posted by Jerome View Post
Fair enough. I have great respect for the people who gave us projects like Linux, Wikipedia, etc... I even try to contribute when I can. Even more: I think it is the only model that will protect us from corporate greed (anyone remembers trusted computing?). But there are limits to the free (as in GPL) model, and I really think that location-based services are beyond that limit.
So you say people can work on a complete operating system, build an encyclopedia and create a free streetmap, but can't feed the location of the Italian restaurant around the corner into a database?

Originally Posted by Jerome View Post
Wikipedia cannot search things near your location, I think (I have not found how). You have to use google for that. Google is... well google.
Google queries Wikipedia, as can anyone else. Look at this Project page, especially chapters 10.5 and the following.

Originally Posted by Jerome View Post
About a free database for shops, only one word comes to mind: spam.
Sure. As there's attempts to spam each and every Wiki-style projekt, forum, blog etc. ... and all of them found ways to reduce spam to an acceptable minimum.

Originally Posted by Jerome View Post
If you know quite a lot of people who would get excited about a location-based XMMP client, then why don't you start a project?
Because I don't code and because there already is a project of this kind around.