[OSM-talk] Wayfinder now open source, and with OSM data

[Andy Allan]

On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 7:30 AM, Jaak Laineste <jaak.laineste at gmail.com> wrote:
> It seems that this news is not commented by OSM community. From
> http://oss.wayfinder.com/ :
>
> "For development purposes Vodafone Wayfinder host a small server
> cluster with free map data from the Open Street Map database.
> Unfortunately the Wayfinder Server is not developed to operate
> directly on this dataset making routing very unreliable, however, you
> are more than welcome to help out fixing those issues :)"
>
> "The majority of all the location and navigation related software
> developed at Wayfinder Systems, a fully owned Vodafone subsidiary, is
> made available publicly under a BSD licence."

Initially sounds cool, but I have no idea what it actually is, or how
cool it actually is :-) If someone can translate from "Wayfinder talk"
to OSM language (e.g. is it an alternative to nominatim, or geoserver,
or whatnot) then I'd have a better idea about it!

Cheers,
Andy