Please don't hate for suggesting non-open source ideas ... ;)<br><br>If we had a native google maps application it would take of quite a few of these needs... The new native app on Symbian is really excellent and integrates really nicely in the N95. I wonder if there are any lurkers here from Google...
<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/19/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Henri Bergius</b> <<a href="mailto:henri.bergius@iki.fi">henri.bergius@iki.fi</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On 10/19/07, Lars Persson Fink <<a href="mailto:lars_p_fink@yahoo.se">lars_p_fink@yahoo.se</a>> wrote:<br>> My thought was that it would be possible to supply the service with a<br>> source and a destination address and have respond with a route and
<br>> information about the route, for instance the estimated time. The Route<br>> Finder Service could then ask Google (or some other web-service) OR the<br>> GPS to calculate the route.<br><br>An interesting optional backend would be using the OpenStreetMap data
<br>for route calculation. This would allow downloading the whole OSM data<br>file (currently 900MB) to the device and making routes (and possibly<br>generating maemo mapper map tiles!) without need for internet<br>connection.
<br><br>OSM data files:<br><a href="http://planet.openstreetmap.org/">http://planet.openstreetmap.org/</a><br><br>Some points about OSM-based route calculation:<br><a href="http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/notes_from_the_state_of_the_map_conference.html#b3a9ee267eb9b222235a1f048755da38">
http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/notes_from_the_state_of_the_map_conference.html#b3a9ee267eb9b222235a1f048755da38</a><br><br>> /Lars<br><br>/Henri<br><br>--<br>Henri Bergius<br>Motorcycle Adventures and Free Software<br><a href="http://bergie.iki.fi/">
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