Marcus Bauer wrote:
gpsd works well and gypsy is not network capable. Simply using your
Neo's GPS from your Laptop does not work. And especially for an
application like tangoGPS it is inherently broken: every nav-application
wants to have the raw NMEA and not some preprocessed stuff and the
On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:38:07PM +0300, Mikko Rauhala wrote:
ti, 2008-07-29 kello 20:53 +0200, Marcus Bauer kirjoitti:
I'm a huge Openstreetmap fan but until OSM is ready for routing this
will take at least five more years, probably ten.
That's probably true _if you drive a car_ (though
If you don't need a GPS that's great but I find them really useful.
Yes, maps and a compasses are really useful but they are quite bulky
and you need the right one. Thanks to the FreeRunner I've now got
localised, street level maps for a large part of the work (OSM[0]) in
my pocket. In addition to
Ken Restivo wrote:
What is the point of having GPS anyway?
One reason for GPS on a phone is to provide location information for
Enhanced 911 emergency services.
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What is the point of having GPS anyway?
Its nice, when you're navigating around an unfamiliar area, to be able
to have a realtime update of where you are exactly. Its also fun to
have a trace of your trip, if you're the kind of person who gets out a
bit. Nice in the forests and among
start-up solved:
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Navit
TryExec=navit
GenericName=Navit
Comment=GPS Navigation
Exec=navit
Icon=diversity-nav
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=Network;GPS;
StartupNotify=true
SingleInstance=true
solved it
but the destination screen crashes
On Thu, Jul
my apologies for the spam,
i didn't read the wiki good enough, the fix is there
On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 12:36 PM, Yorick Moko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
start-up solved:
[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Navit
TryExec=navit
GenericName=Navit
Comment=GPS Navigation
Exec=navit
planet.osm.bz2 is 4.2 gigs now, but that's why there are 8 gig microSD
cards I guess. :-) Of course being unindexed XML you don't have time
to parse and render that much data.
Hmm .. that alongside mokopedia, and my 8gig card is *full* to the
brim . Cool! :)
Hey - maybe *this* is the
Nope. Can't compete against a TomTom or any other commercial Navi. But
then there is no solution for the Neo: the screen is too small and the
speaker too weak. Nevertheless it is quite often quite handy.
I'm using it to navigate the streets of Vienna quite happily,
Marcus .. it took me a
ti, 2008-07-29 kello 20:53 +0200, Marcus Bauer kirjoitti:
I'm a huge Openstreetmap fan but until OSM is ready for routing this
will take at least five more years, probably ten.
That's probably true _if you drive a car_ (though even for that it can
be a handy help, especially in areas that
Marcus Bauer wrote:
On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 16:47 +0200, Tilman Baumann wrote:
Well, i like tangoGPS very much. But it is hardly a comprehensive solution.
First it's only a tile viewer for online maps. No routing, no offline
maps.
I'm a huge Openstreetmap fan but until OSM is ready for
Shawn Rutledge wrote:
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Jay Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So I hope you come up with good data for India. I always wanted to
have a map of the entire world available in my pocket, so maybe we get
closer and closer to that .. ;)
planet.osm.bz2 is 4.2 gigs
Tilman Baumann wrote:
But you are tight, they solve quite different problems. Navit is far
better for orientation in cities or for cycling and walking.
Sorry, this is probably a typo that needs to be declared explicitly.
s/tight/right/
*g*
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Navit works supprisingly well.
Very well with 'stolen/misused' MapRoute maps.
got wherefrom, ie what kind of maps work with it?
But i have to say, the navit build for openmoko is in bad condition.
(easy to fix)
care to elaborate?
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Navit works supprisingly well.
Very well with 'stolen/misused' MapRoute maps.
got wherefrom, ie what kind of maps work with it?
http://wiki.navit-project.org/index.php/Main_Page#Maps
But i have to say, the navit build for openmoko is in bad condition.
(easy to fix)
care
Moreover the '800 pound gorilla' OM is developing its own
gps software and I'm not spending my energy competing with it.
OM2007.2 is there, it works and I recommend everybody to develop for it.
Best regards,
Marcus
Not to start a flame war but even I would like to know why Openmoko with
Am Dienstag 29 Juli 2008 15:28:56 schrieb rakshat hooja:
Moreover the '800 pound gorilla' OM is developing its own
gps software and I'm not spending my energy competing with it.
OM2007.2 is there, it works and I recommend everybody to develop for it.
Best regards,
Marcus
Not to
rakshat hooja wrote:
Moreover the '800 pound gorilla' OM is developing its own
gps software and I'm not spending my energy competing with it.
OM2007.2 is there, it works and I recommend everybody to develop for it.
Best regards,
Marcus
Not to start a flame
On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 15:46 +0200, Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
Am Dienstag 29 Juli 2008 15:28:56 schrieb rakshat hooja:
Moreover the '800 pound gorilla' OM is developing its own
gps software and I'm not spending my energy competing with it.
Not to start a flame war but even I would
Please see Daniel Willmann's announcement for more details.
Cheers,
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:M:
Thanks for the reply and my apologies if I mis-understood something/ got the
facts wrong . I will wait for Daniel Willmann's announcement.
@Marcus - My main job is to sell the Neo ( I work for a distributor) and
Am Dienstag 29 Juli 2008 18:19:32 schrieb rakshat hooja:
Please see Daniel Willmann's announcement for more details.
Cheers,
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:M:
Thanks for the reply and my apologies if I mis-understood something/ got
the facts wrong . I will wait for Daniel Willmann's announcement.
It has been
On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 21:49 +0530, rakshat hooja wrote:
@Marcus - My main job is to sell the Neo ( I work for a distributor)
and tangoGPS is the application that impresses my clients (and me) the
most (even though we hardly have OSM data for India!). I would love to
see it continue to be
@Marcus - My main job is to sell the Neo ( I work for a
distributor) and tangoGPS is the application that impresses my
clients (and me) the most (even though we hardly have OSM data for
India!). I would love to see it continue to be developed. (Offline
maps is something that people
On Tue, Jul 29, 2008 at 11:06 AM, Jay Vaughan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So I hope you come up with good data for India. I always wanted to
have a map of the entire world available in my pocket, so maybe we get
closer and closer to that .. ;)
planet.osm.bz2 is 4.2 gigs now, but that's why there
On Tue, 2008-07-29 at 16:47 +0200, Tilman Baumann wrote:
Well, i like tangoGPS very much. But it is hardly a comprehensive solution.
First it's only a tile viewer for online maps. No routing, no offline
maps.
I'm a huge Openstreetmap fan but until OSM is ready for routing this
will take at
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