<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, May 7, 2013 at 1:09 PM, Maarten Deen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mdeen@xs4all.nl" target="_blank">mdeen@xs4all.nl</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div id=":3z2">Isn't this exactly what OSM is, only now as navigation as a startingpoint? Looking at the map in my area (the Netherlands), I see OSM some 6 years ago.<br>
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It seems all so superfluous to me, I don't see the point. Why not make a navigation app based on OSM? There are several already.</div></blockquote></div><br>simply put: money.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div>
<div class="gmail_extra">they want to sell the data. their map data is closed data. they sell traffic data collected by the users, to their clients.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><div><br></div>-- <br>-S
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