Thread: TMC - Traffic messaging in Maemo Mapper
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2007-03-07 , 15:53
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Originally Posted by tolou View Post
What are the chanses that we can get support for the TMC service to provide traffic messages in Maemo Mapper? Since we do have a FM (RDS) receiver internally in the N800 the prerequisites should be there, no? Is there a license issue related to this type of broadcasts?

My main problem is to decide whether to go for a fixed mounted GPS with "full monty" or to go the budget way with a bluetooth GPS receiver along with the internet tablet. IŽd really want the traffic messages... (Is there a thing like a bluetooth GPS receiver with TMC support)
I don't know anything about TMC, but if an interested party wants to try hacking support for it into Maemo Mapper, I'd be willing to accept patches, assuming they don't require inordinate dependencies. Considering the FM demodulation required, it might not be appropriate to put in Maemo Mapper itself, but perhaps a separate application could be written and used to provide the data to Maemo Mapper.