[talk-ph] It seems TomTom has publicly declared OSM as a threat

[Eugene Alvin Villar]

Here's TomTom's recent article criticizing un-pre-moderated
crowd-sourced mapping (OSM is not named, but it's quite obvious):
http://www.tomtom.com/en_gb/licensing/newsletter/201205/didyouknow/

Here's a slap down reply by Richard Fairhurst (OSMF Board member):
http://www.systemed.net/blog/index.php?post=23

And here's the requisite Slashdot thread:
http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/05/29/019213/tomtom-flames-openstreetmap

As maning said on Facebook
<https://www.facebook.com/maning.sambale/posts/4174530287009>: "First
they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you
win.”

It seems TomTom has left the "ignore you" stage already. :p


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Note: TomTom bought Tele Atlas in 2008. Tele Atlas is one of the 2
biggest commercial map data providers in the world. The other is
Navteq, which was bought by Nokia in 2007.

Note 2: As far as I know, Tele Atlas does not have significant data in
the Philippines.