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PostPosted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 6:41 pm    Post subject: OSM potential for iPhone Navgation Reply with quote

Found a really interesting article following the OSM conference Here, and wondered if anyone in Germany could pass comment on the iPhone Navigation solutions using OSM mentioned.

Is this a midterm threat to the mapping divisions?
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PostPosted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 8:44 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The app is in the UK store now. Just downloaded it

Going to give a "test drive"

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 13, 2009 10:54 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

erne wrote:
The app is in the UK store now. Just downloaded it

Is that OSMTrack? That's not Navigation, it plots your route for uploading to OSM (which is great, just isn't an alternative for TomTom et all).
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PostPosted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 7:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

bedbug wrote:
erne wrote:
The app is in the UK store now. Just downloaded it

Is that OSMTrack? That's not Navigation, it plots your route for uploading to OSM (which is great, just isn't an alternative for TomTom et all).


No the app is called "Roadee"

At the moment it does not work very well Sad
It gives written turn by turn directions. Apparently voice is due in version 1.1
It also needs map cache and quite a few other bits
Its very much a work in progress !
£1.19 for basic turn by turn is hard to beat though

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 14, 2009 11:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

OSM just isn't quite ready for road navigation. In fact much of what has been mapped isn't even available yet. For large city tours I understand the quality and completeness of the maps is as good or better than anything TeleAtlas or Navteq offers. But IMHO, it will be a couple more years before turn-by-turn is ready for OSM-based navigation. In the future it looks like a very serious challenge to the big map companies.
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