TomTom Announces an Open Source GPS Technology

TuringTest writes "According to OStatic, European company TomTom (which recently settled a patent agreement with Microsoft) has announced a new open source format OpenLR for sharing routing data (relevant points, traffic information...) in digital maps of different vendors, to be used in GPS devices. The LR stands for Location Referencing. They aim is to push it as an open standard to build a cooperative information base, presumably to operate in a similar fashion as its current TomTom Map Share technology, in which end users provide map corrections on the fly. The technology to support the format will be released as GPLv2. Does that make OpenLR a GPL GPS?"

Re:Excellent

[fuzzyfuzzyfungus]

Ok. Shock attenuated.

Re:Excellent

[bickerdyke]

(FWIW, most directions I've gotten from Google or MapQuest start out by telling me to drive North 1 block. I live on a one-way street. And North isn't the one way.)

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