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Originally Posted by djdas View Post
Examples of important OSS projects abandoned without any possibility for users to have some continuity?
Furthermore consider that an offline routing/map application without map updates is quite useless in 6 months, I'm not simply criticize their choices in development of the application per se, but mainly for the lack of maps update support (and I paid for them!) which was almost free for them (having other app versions for other platforms) but only if they designed maps files to be compatible with older version...and good design is one of the core points for a serious sw development company.
Useless? I still use those 2010 maps. Common sense of course still has to apply; but even with 3-4 year old map data a rough guidance to target is possible. (Try to get from an airport to your destination at 4am using an arabic-(almost-)only OSM-based map, with straight-line "routing". That's something completely different!) It's not that there's an important bridge connection missing while you try to get out of Northeastern Miami during midnight... and that happened with Garmin. Just for the record.

Last edited by don_falcone; 2013-05-02 at 13:41.
 

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