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<div style="font-family:sans-serif;overflow:auto;width:100%;margin: 0px 10px"><h2 style="margin: 0.25em 0 0 0"><div class=""><a href="http://technology.slashgeo.org/article.pl?sid=09/09/10/1125210&from=rss">TomTom Announces an Open Source GPS Technology</a></div></h2>
<div style="margin-bottom: 0.5em">via <a href="http://slashgeo.org/" class="f">Slashgeo</a> by lxnyce on 9/10/09</div><br style="display:none">
Found on <a href="http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/09/09/2216255/TomTom-Announces-an-Open-Source-GPS-Technology?from=rss">slashdot</a>, here is their summary : <i>"According to OStatic, European company TomTom (which recently <a href="http://yro.slashdot.org/story/09/03/30/1853219/TomTom-Settles-With-Microsoft">settled a patent agreement</a> with Microsoft) has announced a new open source format <a href="http://www.tomtom.com/page/openLR">OpenLR</a> 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 <a href="http://ostatic.com/blog/tomtom-launches-open-source-navigation-project">build a cooperative information base</a>, presumably to operate in a similar fashion as 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 that make OpenLR a GPL GPS?"</i><p><a href="http://technology.slashgeo.org/article.pl?sid=09/09/10/1125210&from=rss">Read more of this story</a> at Slashgeo.</p></div>
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