[OSM-talk] OSM Maps on TomTom

[Richard Weait]

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 3:34 PM, Nic Roets <nroets at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Graham,
>
> Be aware that the GTK code that draws rotated text (Pango) is quite
> slow. You can ask Willem-Jan De Hoog who ported gosmore to the maemo.
>
> Richard, are you aware that most "oddball GPSs" are WinCE powered and
> that OSM has several apps for them. Sometimes you need to browse the
> HPC-factor forums or the gpspassions forums to see how it can be
> unlocked (MioPocket is a very nice replacement shell). I recently
> bought a new Mio. The builtin app is good, but the maps are a bit out
> dated. So if I compare it to Gosmore + OSM it is actually quite good:
> Very up-to-date map with cycling features and PoIs, but without house
> numbers, pretty rendering and a few other features. Give it a year or
> two and some people will actually consider it to be an upgrade.

Thank you, Nic.

So MioPocket can unlock some of these devices, then allow use of say
Gosmore + OSM data?

Can OSM be converted to the format used by these devices?  Or must one
jailbreak the device and install another application in order to use
the OSM data?