Vodafone Wayfinder Open Source Software

Sample map data is available via the Download page. You will find pre compiled maps for use in the Wayfinder Server as well as the raw map data. To make it easier to understand the map conversion process, map material for some intermediate steps are also made available.

We are also very happy to have been able to offer sample map data from Tele Atlas, please notice however that this data is only to be used under a special license.

The official communication from Vodafone about this Open source initiative is out there.

VODAFONE DEMONSTRATES COMMITMENT TO OPEN SOURCE INNOVATION
Vodafone Group will make its location based services software open source on http://oss.wayfinder.com. The code will be made available on github. The aim is to offer other organisations the opportunity to use a code base which has been developed over the past decade so that they can build new and innovative navigation products which widen choice for consumers.

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This means that we have enabled access for everyone to the source code hosted at github.com. Please consume and contribute!

We are proud to announce the Vodafone Wayfinder Open Source Software project. The majority of all the location and navigation related software developed at Wayfinder Systems, a fully owned Vodafone subsidiary, is made available publicly under a BSD licence. This includes the distributed back-end server, tools to manage the server cluster and map conversion as well as client software for e.g. Android, iPhone and Symbian S60. Technical documentation is available in the wiki and discussions around the software are hosted in the forum.

Some pre compiled map data from various sources will be made available here shortly, including sample data for development by Tele Atlas.

For development purposes Vodafone Wayfinder host a small server cluster with free map data from the Open Street Map database. Unfortunately the Wayfinder Server is not developed to operate directly on this dataset making routing very unreliable, however, you are more than welcome to help out fixing those issues . Please notice that this server instance is intended for development and testing of the software, not for large scale end-user services.

Background
The operations of Wayfinder Systems has been discontinued since March 11th, see media release, and after that Vodafone decided to contribute the software to the open source community. Please also visit www.betavine.net, hosting other Vodafone open source projects.