linux map application

[Roberto Alsina]

On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Jerry Kreps wrote:

> If I remember correctly, Bruce Perens was working on that last year, 
> or the year before.  The problem was(/is?) that the map data files
> are not free.

Actually, Perens bought the maps and made them free (all 2.6GB of
them). He just has not developed anything to use them, AFAIK.

> JLK
> 
> On Thursday 22 February 2001 09:02, Pupeno wrote:
> > Hello.
> > I was looking for a project and I found there's no digital maps for
> > linux, I mean, city maps, where you can see streets, where the
> > trafic go in that streets, where busses, metros, trains and that
> > kind of things go, etc, etc. Here, in Argentina, there's a software
> > like that for the main city, but for Windows. My idea is to make an
> > open source program to do that and that anyone can meke it's own
> > city database. I don't know if the databases should be
> > downloadeable or they should be on line or what.
> > I think this should be the work a lot of people, there should be
> > people know how to work with 2d maps, finding paths... people know
> > about data storage... I want to make it for KDE (maybe some
> > integration in the future). I have some knowledge about kde and I'm
> > learning as fast as I can...
> > I don't know if this project can be made... I think it's posible, I
> > created a mailing list in yahooegroups.com to discuss the project,
> > I don't even know what name it will have.
> > The address to suscribe is linuxmap-subscribe at yahoogroups.com
> > Thank you.
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> > Pupeno: pupeno at pupeno.com.ar  www.pupeno.com.ar
> >
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