[wellylug] GPS Maps on Android Phone

[Peter Lambrechtsen]

On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 6:10 AM, Nathan Cook <nathan at cook.net.nz> wrote:

> Intersting. I wonder if it'd be possible to use these maps in Waze.
>
I too WAS interested in Waze, until I did a bit of research:

http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/08/waze-make-your-own-maps-in-rea.html

"One of the first questions that many geo
geeks<http://twitter.com/jrishel/status/3286835212>ask of Waze is what
about whether they could use
OpenStreetMap's <http://www.openstreetmap.org/> data. CEO Noam
Bardin<http://twitter.com/noamb11>is wary of the OSMs licensing and
would rather start from scratch. Waze
definitely intends commercialize their maps and does not want to have any
issues with that."

http://lists.openstreetmap.org/pipermail/talk-il/2009-April/000109.html

"In short, the maps are "driver generated" but are not "shared" and
definitely not  "driver owned".

To me it seems Waze are happy to consume your map data and hard work, but
not give it up for free.  And Open Street Map due to their staunch CC
approach means you can access and remix the data.

So... I would stear clear of Waze and only use Open Street Maps sources
IMHO.

Cheers

Peter


> On 1/01/2011 11:13 PM, "Peter Lambrechtsen" <plambrechtsen at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Not exactly Welly Lug related but at least in the same ballpark, but done
> > some work getting the NZ Open GPS Maps working on my wifes Android phone
> > which has a GPS Built in. Posted it up on the NZ Open GPS Forum.
> >
> > http://gwprojects.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=1703
> >
> > Hope it helps others out there.
>
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