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amcluesent
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 Posted: Wed Oct 05, 2005 8:37 pm Post subject: Shouldn't SatNav be 'free'? |
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By which I mean, free of licensing costs? After all, muggins the tax-payer has paid for all the British roads, so the maps of where they are are Crown Copyright and should be put into the public domain by local councils and central government.
If this were done, I would hope some group would create an applications to use these maps for routing, which is published with an 'open source' license. After all, network routing algorithms have been studied for years in acedemia and are widely known.
We need to break the commercial lock-in of TeleAtlas, Navteq and TomTom and let the citizen get the full value of the roads they have paid for! |
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lbendlin
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Wait a few more months and we'll all drive around with Google maps.
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Nords
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You just don't want to zoom in too much!
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lbendlin
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Why, what's wrong with Wensleydale?
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Skippy
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| Posted: Thu Oct 06, 2005 10:57 am Post subject: Re: Shouldn't SatNav be 'free'? |
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| amcluesent wrote: | | We need to break the commercial lock-in of TeleAtlas, Navteq and TomTom and let the citizen get the full value of the roads they have paid for! |
Ha ha ha. Next thing you will be asking for all the road tax and fuel duty we pay to be spend on actually maintaining the roads!
In case you haven't noticed, the government sees the motorist as a cash cow which must be milked.
As for TeleAtlas/Navteq, they add quite a lot of value to the data they licence from the Crown. Even if they could license the data for free, there would be a lot of cost involved in maintaining it.
The best we can hope for is that Sat Nav becomes so popular that the cost of the maps drops dramatically. This is happening already - look at Garmin's sub £200 Streetpilot i3. This price point would have been unthinkable a couple of years ago.
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Nords
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| Nords wrote: | You just don't want to zoom in too much!
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It has been on before, but this is what Ibendlin and I are on about
http://moon.google.com
See if you can find the Apollo remains! |
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StevenGourlay
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next thing will be Google earth / OS based maps and a computer games engine like Halflife 2 and you will drive round in a 3D world. They have already started making this in ASIA.
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martike
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| Posted: Fri Oct 07, 2005 4:15 pm Post subject: Re: Shouldn't SatNav be 'free'? |
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| amcluesent wrote: | | After all, muggins the tax-payer has paid for all the British roads, so the maps of where they are are Crown Copyright and should be put into the public domain by local councils and central government. |
Muggins the tax payer also pays for the country's defence, not just the roads (after all, the roads go without saying ...), so why not put it all into the public domain ?
Nuclear submarines, missile defence systems, radar installations. You paid for them, you deserve to be able to use them free of charge ! |
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