[Portugal] TomTom Announces an Open Source GPS Technology

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GPS Technology via Slashgeo by lxnyce on 9/10/09
Found on slashdot, here is their summary : "According to OStatic,
European company TomTom (which recently settled a patent agreement with
Microsoft) has announced a new open source format OpenLR 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
build a cooperative information base, 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?"
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