<div>John,</div>
<div>You (and Stefan) are probably right - making an OSM to TomTom data format converter would probably be more sensible and take less effort.</div>
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<div>I had hoped that the TomTom code would have had a standard graphics library included so it would be easy to port an existing OSM based router to it, but it will take quite a bit of effort to port a suitable library to it.</div>
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<div>The difference is, I can see a way through building an application on the device (which could include GPX track logging etc.), but I don't really know where to start decoding a proprietary data format!</div>
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<div>Maybe someone else knows how to go about de-coding the data format?</div>
<div><br>Regards</div>
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<div>Graham.<br><br></div>
<div class="gmail_quote">On 8 April 2010 12:36, John Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:deltafoxtrot256@gmail.com">deltafoxtrot256@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div class="im">On 8 April 2010 15:15, <<a href="mailto:grahamjones139@googlemail.com">grahamjones139@googlemail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> It looks like the TomTom will not be difficult to write code for. TomTom<br>
> themselves recognise that they have used OpenSource code to develop it, and<br>> provide the open source bits of the software (linux kernels, libraries, and<br>> compiler) (<a href="http://www.tomtom.com/page.php?Page=gpl" target="_blank">http://www.tomtom.com/page.php?Page=gpl</a>).<br>
<br></div>Wouldn't it be better just working out their data format, like someone<br>has done with garmin?<br><br>Especially since they may use the same format for other platforms,<br>than trying to hack the hardware and/or coming up with custom OS<br>
builds...<br></blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Dr. Graham Jones<br>Hartlepool, UK<br>email: <a href="mailto:grahamjones139@gmail.com">grahamjones139@gmail.com</a><br>