On 29 May 2012 13:08, Anthony wikimail@inbox.org wrote:
The difference is that Wikipedia is usable in the real world, whereas OSM, for the most part, is not. Yes, TomTom is dying. But it's because of Google, not because of OSM.
I'd actually flag smartphones as the culprit. They're the good-enough cheap alternative that's disrupting the satnav business. TomTom's article is actually about an Android app that uses OSM data.
Heck, my Blackberry doesn't have a GPS, but I can navigate usably with the Vodafone app that just triangulates off the cell towers. Resolution is terrible (on the order of 100-200 metres), but it turns out to be mostly sufficient.
- d.