Thread: Biggest Disappointment: Nav Software
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jussik is offline jussik
2007-11-25 , 01:01
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#15
Originally Posted by sevo View Post
Besides, with that amount of free map data about, even if Google, MS and Yahoo revert to non-free business models, many other services would immediately step in.
1. US is the only place with free map data. At least in Europe finding anything usable is pretty much impossible...
2. Google, MS and Yahoo already have non-free business models -- cacheing their data in Maemo Mapper is infringing copyright, no doubt about it. Openstreetmap and (US) public data are the only legal options. If they (Google et al) could prevent leeching maps without side-effects, they would.