Refurbing TomToms

Refurbing TomToms
Participants	User:buzz
Skills	Archeology, Linux
Status	Active
Niche	Retro
Purpose	Tool
Tool	No
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Refurbing TomToms

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Whats the plan

Many thriftstores have huge piles of these little linux devices with bad batteries and ancient maps.

Seeing that most of this stuff is actually open and usuable, refurbish them somewhat?

Devices we tested with all this opentom stuff

Successfully

• TomTom XL 30
• TomTom One XL

Some links

• https://giters.com/raulbalanza/OpenTom
• https://github.com/micky-it/Working-2021-OpenTom

• https://github.com/navit-gps/NavitTom/
• https://wiki.navit-project.org/index.php/TomTom
• https://wiki.navit-project.org/index.php/OpenStreetMap#Convert_OSM_data_to_Navit_binfile
• https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/GRASS/Simplifying_OSM_Shapefiles
• http://maps.navit-project.org/

Ideas

• Home Assistant frontend
• (superslow but current) OSM navigator

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