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2007-03-20 , 22:56
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Originally Posted by brendan View Post
Create a database of cities containing...

When you download a tour package, it includes 0, 2 and 4 level maps of city, POIs and database, all other files necessary.

i was more thinking the target of this would be a backpacking student traveler, out of town business traveler or otherwise bugdet minded day tripper.

some ideas may be logistical nightmares, others might be do-able. your thoughts?
Hopefully, I'll be able to address some of the POI concerns with a POI web service similar to the GPX Driving Directions web service. And it is certainly possible for someone else to write a web service to do these kinds of things, and I'd consider integrating that into Maemo Mapper.

Being able to package and distribute that POI data and/or map data might be dangerous, though, depending on the licensing of that data. You can't just package Google Maps data and deliver it, and the same probably goes for their POI data. OpenStreetMap, maybe...