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Submission + - TomTom anounces an open source GPS technology 1

TuringTest writes: (Found via 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 in a similar way than 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 it make OpenLR a GPL GPS?

Comment Currently undergoing the same predicament. (Score 1) 485

I am currently undergoing this same predicament for last 6 odd months. I am asked to a sample project especially if the size becomes much larger and whatever the project. The enthusiasm is much lesser, the amount of collaboration is much lesser, and the prize for doing this is even lesser. I end up not doing it getting bored. Though feeling guilty of not being able to do assignments dog me. But, unpaid assignment irritate me much more.

I for myself cannot find an answer for this though.

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