OpenStreetMap
Storing OSM Data in an efficient physical format for any devices
Posted by wewe72 on 28 May 2011 in English.I am always suffering from the fact that I do not know any open, high performance physical storage format for navigation data, that allows very fast route calculation, incremental updating, etc.
That makes developing navigation applications pretty tough, because with every approach the storage format of the map data has to be reconsidered again.
While searching the internet I came across http://www.nds-association.org/, an association of all relevant car and infotainment manufacturers, developing exactly such a format. Maybe OSM should think about getting in contact with those guys and think about possible cooperations. Could be that having such a format is a kind of turbo boost for OSM into the car and PND market?
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Discussion
Comment from !i! on 28 May 2011 at 13:38
You might ask user:Marek_Kleciak that works on the automotive/PND market and is very active in 3D OSmM stuff, too.
Well as you know OSM is a 'doocracy', so everybody that has an idea is invited to give his idea a try. So 'OSM should think about getting in contact' should be mode not by someone but by yourself :)
AFAIK I would say we have enough formats for rendering/routing tasks, even for embedded devices
osm.wiki/Category:DataFormats
I'm still not sure if a major player would enter this market, cause he might be banned by all other data providers? Taking the first step is always very risky. The question is, if OSM would benefit by this use alone. I would guess that to the companies this is just a cheap replacement for their commercial data services, without any understanding of the community process (use data, improve data, releasing tools as FOSS,...).
BTW Logiball GmbH has tools to mix different data sources including OSM for PND manufactors
http://www.logiball.de/pressemeldung-full-lb/items/logiball_220710_osm.html