Comment 8 for bug 989371

Is having nothing there ever valid? I suppose we could set a default if RET
is blank.

On Apr 25, 2012 11:58 PM, "Daniel Clem" <email address hidden> wrote:

> 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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