OpenStreetMap compatible GPS?

Joseph Smith joe at settoplinux.org
Mon Apr 26 15:49:15 EDT 2010


thing like, `Wow..., what is wrong with these people?' :)
>
> Then I thought about it and it occured to me that the TomTom units
> might actually make reasonably nice little `palmtop' touchscreen
> computers (that just happened to include GPS as peripheral functionality).
>
> And *then* we discovered just how much better the OSM maps can be than
> the proprietary ones[0] (and that it costs a zillion dollars to get
> the proprietary maps from TomTom :)). And then my wife asked, "Can you
> install Debian on *my* TomTom so *I* can just use OpenStreetMap

Wow that is cool, Debian on a Tom Tom, that would make a neat little 
hacking project :-)

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Thanks,
Joseph Smith
Set-Top-Linux
www.settoplinux.org


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