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TomTom Flames OpenStreetMap

Posted by Unknown on Monday May 28, 2012 @07:03PM from the you-might-die dept.

An anonymous reader writes "TomTom Navigation has a recently launched article on what they call the 'negative aspects' of open data projects such as OpenStreetMap. As there are no hard facts and details to the studies they refer, the OSM community identified this release as classic 'Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt.'"

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Re:Why would it need studies? by Coisiche · 2012-05-28 20:40 · Score: 5, Funny

Just out of interest, are the fjords and other bodies of water littered with the sunken remains of vehicles driven by those who forgot to switch their GPS to summer mode?