TomTom announces new Maps Platform using OpenStreetMap

Re:TomTom announces new Maps Platform using OpenStreetMap by acomjean on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @05:26AM (#33433178)

I had one. It worked pretty well but sometime took a little while to “lock onto” the gps signal.

I think the cloud based gps on phones won for being free and having traffic info.

My Tom Tom had the “mr T” celebrity voice yelling directions at me. A friend had John Clease. This is before gps directions told you street names, but with ai I think they could manage this again.

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Re:TomTom announces new Maps Platform using OpenStreetMap by lozenge on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @05:42AM (#33433301)

If it doesn't lock on straight away, it also asks you if the clock is set correctly.

I think those older GPS chips might only use the US-operated GPS system while modern ones can consider other positioning satellites as well. And they also can't download AGPS data of satellite drift from the internet, so they need to get it from the satellites themselves.

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Re:TomTom announces new Maps Platform using OpenStreetMap by bearmode on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @05:31AM (#33433209)

You can already install celebrity voices with Waze

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Re:TomTom announces new Maps Platform using OpenStreetMap by tepmoc on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @07:11AM (#33433948)

Asssited GPS[1] solved that exactly problem, since not network connected GPS devices need download GPS almanac and ephemerides via GPS 50bits/s connection, which can take a while.

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GNSS

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