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libopenlr.org anyone?

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Slashgeo forwarded an interesting news about OpenLR initiative by TomTom. A part of it is an open industry standard. Another part of it is an open source code library which is coming soon.

In the meantime, as it seems the complete stack of PDFs has been published, would anyone be after libopenlr.org project, before TomTom will put its red hands on it? And the domain is still available, by the way :-)

Sanoodi plays OpenLayers

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Recently, I’ve been playing with Sanoodi – activity-based social networking website for participants in sports and leisure activities. The idea of Sanoodi is very similar to Sports Tracker by Nokia.

The Sanoodi version 1.1.0.0 is based on Google Maps API. It works well, rarely reporting errors. Today, I migrated my account to Sanoodi Beta available for mysterious Friday the 13th (month unspecified :-)). Besides new & ugly user interface, I’ve encountered that mapping capabilities in Beta are based on OpenLayers engine. Great choice, if my vote counts. The core of Sanoodi application is based on Django framework. Another good choice :-)

If you are doing any outdoor activities, Sanoodi is a nice gadget and worth to try. I recommend to use version 1.1.0.0 for regular diary. In my opinion, the Beta version is still unusable. It is throwing errors while saving preferences or uploading GPX file, Save button for new route sees to be not even linked, etc. BTW, I’ve reported all my problems to the Sanoodi Team. Hopefully, they will fix it soon.