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GPS Navigation??

 

Are there any ideas being thrown around about how to approach GPS
navigation on either the phone or tablet? I use it on my phone about 2
times a week. Sometimes more. And though I try to stay away from
Google's services as much as possible by using Map Quest and other
replacements for the stock Android Apps, Google Maps is just really well
polished and works really well. But the biggest draw back to ALL the
navigation apps currently in use, is they ALL need a connection to
download the maps for each time you use the app. Which to me is the most
retarted thing in the world given that a lot of people drive out in the
country where signal just drops off.

Since we are building this thing from scratch almost. Why not take
something like the OpenStreetMap project, put some real Man power behind
it. And make the Android app, OSMand or OSMand plus, to work much much
better, so that people can submit corrections well before Ubuntu Phone
(or U-Phone as I like to call it) is available.

I have been trying to make a few corrections, but it rarely ever finds
my locations correctly that I just can't submit any accurate data from
the Android app. And the best part of OpenStreetMap, is that it would go
along with the Open Nature of Ubuntu and the Free Software movement as a
whole, so there wouldn't be any compromise. And unlike with Garmins or
TomToms, you can submit fixes as you encounter them, and the updated
maps could be downloaded on a fairly consistent basis, so you know would
be getting just as good of directions as Google Maps, while not
requiring data connection the whole time, saving battery life, and all
with staying "open" in the Freedom Dimension. :)

What you guys think?
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