I discovered opensetreetmap.org a few days ago while reading a post in the openmoko mailing list. and to quote the project page “OpenStreetMap is a project aimed squarely at creating and providing free geographic data such as street maps to anyone who wants them. The project was started because most maps you think of as free actually have legal or technical restrictions on their use, holding back people from using them in creative, productive or unexpected ways.” I am sure I could come up with something using self gathered data and maybe the google maps api. That leads me to my second point. Its about time that I learned C, so this weekend I am doing nothing but that. I am going to read and go through every online example I can find, and post my progress here so I can tell the world what I have learned.