[clug] tomtom one

Cameron Patrick cameron at patrick.wattle.id.au
Wed Aug 1 12:02:33 GMT 2007


Sam Couter wrote:

> Speaking of proprietariness... I've looked at OSM a few times (and plan
> on contributing if I can ever get the funds for a GPS past the budget
> committee), but why can't I do so without installing non-free software?

Hee.  Sad but true - while both the Java and Flash editors are free,
they don't run on the free implementations of their respective
platforms.  (There used to be a Qt/C++-based editor but that hasn't been
developed in a while and doesn't work with the current OSM API.)

> The web site doesn't even lay out correctly in my browser
> (Iceweasel/Firefox). Where's the free love?

Worksforme.

Cameron



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