[Maps-l] TomTom Launches Open Source Navigation Project

[Daniel Kinzler]

HI all

I just stubeled uppon an annoucement [1] that TomTom (make of GPS navigation
devices) will launch an OSS project for location aware services/data, called
OpenLR [2].

They call it a "universal location referencing technology" and call it
"map-agnostic". Not quite sure what's behind it - a collection of data layer? an
protocol for supplying and polling such data?

I didn't dig deep, just though it might interest you...

-- daniel

[1] http://ostatic.com/blog/tomtom-launches-open-source-navigation-project
[2] http://www.tomtom.com/page/openLR


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