[talk-au] TomTom Anounces an Open Source GPS Technology

Andrew Laughton laughton.andrew at gmail.com
Thu Sep 10 00:26:41 BST 2009


Slashdot has an interesting item;

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/09/2216255/TomTom-Anounces-an-Open-Source-GPS-Technology?art_pos=1

*"According to OStatic, European company TomTom (which recently settled a
patent agreement<http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/03/30/1853219/TomTom-Settles-With-Microsoft>with
Microsoft) has announced a new open source format
OpenLR <http://www.tomtom.com/page/openLR> for sharing routing data
(relevant points, traffic information...) in digital maps of different
vendors, to be used in GPS devices. The LR stands for Location Referencing.
They aim is to push it as an open standard to build a cooperative
information base<http://ostatic.com/blog/tomtom-launches-open-source-navigation-project>,
presumably in a similar way than its current TomTom Map Share technology in
which end users provide map corrections on the fly. The technology to
support the format will be released as GPLv2. Does it make OpenLR a GPL
GPS?"*
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