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#21
The baselines of maps & navigation freedom and commoditization are probably defined around the projects listed at

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/R...OfflineRouters

No intersection with Maemo as for today?
 
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#22
Originally Posted by qgil View Post
The baselines of maps & navigation freedom and commoditization are probably defined around the projects listed at

http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/R...OfflineRouters

No intersection with Maemo as for today?
Several of the projects listed there (at least gosmore, navit, roadmap) have had Maemo ports (albeit with varying degress of quality). http://wiki.maemo.org/Navigation_Tools also provides an overview of what's available.
 

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Originally Posted by mistermix View Post
A Maemo developer got lost and posted his negative experience with the N900's Ovi Maps on his blog It isn't pretty
"Ovi" is the Finnish word for "unfinished, not yet working properly". I think it's nice and admirable that a big company like Nokia uses this easily recognizable warning in bold print on all their problematic pre-alpha-products and services.

If a customer still uses it, he shouldn't complain. He has been warned.
 

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Originally Posted by benny1967 View Post
"Ovi" is the Finnish word for "unfinished, not yet working properly". I think it's nice and admirable that a big company like Nokia uses this easily recognizable warning in bold print on all their problematic pre-alpha-products and services.

If a customer still uses it, he shouldn't complain. He has been warned.
Ah, thank you, that was hilarious

For the rest of you people, "ovi" means "door" in english, and I suppose someone @ nokia thought it would be a nice name for a services portal.
 

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#25
Navit seems to be an interesting project. The last OS2008 update was in February and there is nothing yet in Fremantle extras-devel. Just curious, does anybody know whether the upstream project has any interest nowadays in Maemo / N900?
 
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There's an interesting interview about Ovi Maps here (via allaboutsymbian.com) - it also mentions n900 just to say that the app isn't ready yet (and we knew it), and concentrates on 'good things' TM - a way to share social places bookmarks it seems.
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