Re:TomTom announces new Maps Platform using OpenStreetMap
by olabyne on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @06:53AM
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Yeah, it's crazy how smartphones crushed entire markets from the 2000s : car GPS, MP3 players, cheap digital cameras ...
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Re:TomTom announces new Maps Platform using OpenStreetMap
by FormFollowsFunc on Wednesday November 02, 2022 @07:02AM
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TomTom started with mapping software for PDAs/smartphones. I remember using CityMaps on a PocketPC phone edition (with a separate GPS device) in the early 2000s. They only got into standalone devices in 2004 probably because they were more profitable than software alone. It's only when smartphones (with built-in GPS) went mainstream in ~2010 that standalone devices didn't make sense anymore.