[Ubuntu-be] garmin&gps

[wannes]

2007/9/10, Peter Stuart <stuart.peter at gmail.com>:
> is the issue here also concerning the
> open sourcing of cartography?
> are companies like tele-atlas
> open source or not?

Teleatlas is definitly not open source.

There are projects to produce open map data. One of them is
http://www.openstreetmap.org/
I worked on Antwerp a bit, together with other people. Due to lack of
time, activity has stopped for a while.

In holland (where the comunity is langer, and more active) there is a
company who donated all of their data to the project. It's cheaper to
let the community do the updating ...
<http://www.opengeodata.org/?p=223>

There is also some navigating software for linux which is using the free data.

Garmin-gps-systems work with linux. I mean you can download and upload
data to them using ao NMEA-protocol which is pretty standard afaik.

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wannes