Update: MotionX GPS App for iPhone - NAVTEQ Data and Low Cost
Updated 10/1: Title and text updated per comment from FullPower to note the app does not use OpenStreetMap (below).
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I’m trying hard not to get too wrapped up in all the iPhone nav apps, but I am interested in the reaction of the planet as each one appears. When the TomTom app came out for the iPhone the folks on Buzz Out Loud (BOL, the C|net podcast of indeterminate length) criticized the price and attributed it to the cost of the data (provided by Tele Atlas, which it owns). Now, InformationWeek previews MotionX-GPS for iPhone in part because of its low price $2.99 and $25 annual subscription.
The app uses deCarta tech and NAVTEQ data (from FAQ), so that’s not what dropped the price. Another of the company’s products does use OpenStreetMap.
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I had to dig a bit on the website, but it seems the app uses OpenStreetMap. (I’m a bit confused since GPS Business News says it uses NAVTEQ.) Also noteworthy: the company behind it is FullPower and headed by former Borland CEO Philippe Kahn. Gosh I loved Borland! My first real job, at a consulting firm, used Quattro. One of my colleagues, a programmer, won a big award for automating the processing of data from our Gas Chromatograph all in Quattro.
