Thread: Ro.a.d 2012.30:unlockable map ?

My view is that whole conception is wrong - that the digital navigation is getting free world wide and selling mapping content is old! This is a tendency that began long a ago...and is not coming from Garmin. Just Garmin hard compete any more with it. This tendency began from companies like Google with their free services Google Maps, like Nokia and their free Nokia (Navteq) maps, Apple etc.

But don't be misguided that those free mapping services don't earn money! They earn! But they earn in a smarter (advance) way! Go to the Google maps API and read about the Google Maps API Premier conditions (Google maps for the Business!):

[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

or Nokias' Location Platform APIs:
[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]

etc. Think developers would understand. Or should understand! The future is in offering services not selling mapping content! Therefore the whole discussion about locking/unlocking maps is absolutely pointless to me as well as is it legal or not.

And second....City Navigator Europe is already having a very good map (full coverage) of Romania (Balkans in general) and is virtually free...Same as of Ukraine I think. So why do you care about those maps?

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