[OSM-legal-talk] Custom Data Formats? Data Filtering?

[brendan barrett]

Come to think of it... that's not a bad idea. Perhaps we'll look at
allowing people to import their own maps into our software down the
line (provided they convert to our format... hence and API:P). We
might do that if it takes off.

Thanks.

On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 6:04 PM, brendan barrett wrote:
> Yeah... but the maps won't go on the devices. they will go into the
> software that runs on the desktop / laptop (Windows at first... then
> later Linux Mac etc).
>
> Thanks for the explanation. If they really want it we'd probably
> release an API (and source for the API) in any case down the line, if
> a reason that I can't see right now develops.
>
> On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 4:57 PM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>>> If people want to reverse engineer it... that's fine:P I'm not sure
>>> it's worth the effort as the files won't have anything extra in them.
>>
>> People have reverse engineered Garmin maps not to get at the data, but
>> to be able to use the devices with their own data.
>>
>> Bye
>> Frederik
>>
>>
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