[OSM-talk] Garmin stocks falls on mapping deal

[Jeffrey Martin]

On 10/4/07, John McKerrell <john at mckerrell.net> wrote:
> 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
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For $25000 US per year plus expenses and help with getting the proper
visa and I'll map Korea full time.

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