[Xastir] Xastir Digest, Vol 55, Issue 4

[Andrew Errington]

On Tue, June 8, 2010 09:19, James Cameron wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 06:55:15PM -0500, Steve Rogers quoted:
>
>> Thank you for your inquiry. We have discontinued the
>> Tiger Mapping Service as it has become outdated.
>>
>
> So, lots of people relied on a legacy service and got bitten.  It shows
> how valuable open data sources can be.  Choose your next source based on
> how open it is, and what license it carries.

We should seriously look at OSM (www.osm.org) as a backend map source for
Xastir.

I have mentioned it a couple of times here, and it surprises me that
no-one seems to be in the least bit interested.

How about it?

73,

Andrew