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2010-09-28 , 01:32
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#107
Originally Posted by lardman View Post
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It would be nice to access the Maps app data, but that's probably just a pipe dream unless we do some serious reverse engineering on the Maps app

Anyway I've not tried this idea mainly due to lack of time, but it is something a few of us discussed at the first Maemo summit and it would be cool to at least give it a go.
I asked Quim about access to the Ovi Maps data as some kind of gesture of goodwill from Nokia after the Ovi Maps fiasco. The reply really wasn't very encouraging: there's apparently an API and you can get limited access to the data if you sign your soul over and sacrifice 3 virgins. Or something like that.
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...1&postcount=35

It really would be neat to see 3rd party apps accessing the Ovi map data and generating routing and tile data offline, wouldn't it?
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