[talk-ph] Officially, some Garmin devices now comes pre-loaded with OSM data

[Ervin Malicdem]

The question is how is Garmin getting back to the community upon starting
to use OSM data for Western Europe to meet that CC-BY-SA license?

Ervin M.
*Schadow1 Expeditions* - A Filipino must not be a stranger to his own
motherland.
http://www.s1expeditions.com

On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 6:18 PM, maning sambale <emmanuel.sambale at gmail.com>
wrote:

> A tweet from RichardF
> https://twitter.com/richardf/status/598907440097337345
>
> This product page mentioned:
>
> https://buy.garmin.com/en-GB/GB/sports-recreation/handhelds/etrex-20x/prod518046.html
> *Garmin ActiveMap is based on OSM mapping data, map quality depends
> heavily on local mapping coverage, Garmin cannot guarantee the quality
> and completeness of mapping data
>
> Some tsismis, years ago a Garmin Asia representative asked me how they
> can use OSM data in the Philippines. To which I replied: "Sure you can
> use OSM data as long as you comply with the license (CC-BY-SA back
> then), but, if you need my help, you have to open Garmin spec so we
> don't have to reverse engineer it"  No reply afterwards. ;)
> --
> cheers,
> maning
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