[OSM-talk] Garmin stocks falls on mapping deal

[John McKerrell]

On 3 Oct 2007, at 15:38, Jeffrey Martin wrote:

> Do you think Garmin might be looking for an open source solution?
>
> http://www.thestreet.com/s/navteq-deal-guts-garmin/newsanalysis/ 
> techstockupdate/10382098.html?puc=_htmlttt

Michael T. Jones, chief technologist of Google Earth, Maps and Local,  
says the company never considered buying Navteq. Instead, Google  
could simply recreate the data far more cheaply by tapping the  
mapmaking skills of its hundreds of millions of users — a wiki of  
maps, he suggests.

http://www.forbes.com/wireless/2007/10/02/nokia-navteq-deal-tech-wire- 
cz_bu_1002technokia.html

I wonder if someone injected $8.1 billion into OSM, how long it would  
take us to map the world.

John