Dear Satguru
After going to:
http://groute.loadstone-gps.pl/index.php?l=en
please enter coordinates of the place.
You may easily get Coordinates from
www.whatsmygps.com
or else, if it is a prominent place like railway station or something else,
which has been labeled on google maps, entering its name will also give you the
route.
It describes trun by turn route, thereafter, you may generate a loadstone
checkpoint file also.
Regards
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(Rajesh Asudani)
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From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in
[mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Satguru Rathi
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 4:12 PM
To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in
Subject: Re: [AI] accessible gps comparison
Dear Rajesh sir and Geetha ma'am,
May I request to please explain about how to serch for map of a perticular
root. I am asking this because I tried to locate the root for Delhi's few
places but without any success. I also tried by entering area pincode but
that also did not give any result.
Waiting for your inputs.
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From: "Asudani, Rajesh" <rajeshasud...@rbi.org.in>
To: "Geetha Shamanna" <gee...@millernorbert.de>;
<accessindia@accessindia.org.in>
Sent: Monday, February 22, 2010 2:10 PM
Subject: Re: [AI] accessible gps comparison
Hi Geetha
Really a wonderful piece of information.
I find it quite accurate.
Now, After downloading checkpoint file, and importing to loadstone, I need
to figure out how it announces while approaching the points.
I know there are settings for it, but can't seem to adjust them.
Regards
"Perhaps our role on this planet is not to worship God-- but to create Him."
--Arthur C. Clarke
(Rajesh Asudani)
Assistant General Manager,
Reserve Bank of India
Nagpur
09420397185
O: 0712 2806676
Res: 0712 2591349
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From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in
[mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Geetha Shamanna
Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 3:36 PM
To: manis...@gmail.com; accessindia@accessindia.org.in
Subject: Re: [AI] accessible gps comparison
Manish,
Loadstone can be used in conjunction with GoogleMaps. Visit
http://groute.loadstone-gps.pl/index.php?l=en
Enter the source and target destination here, and this site produces a
checkpoints file using data from GoogleMaps. It is quite good.
Geetha
----- Original Message -----
From: "Manish Agrawal" <manis...@gmail.com>
To: <accessindia@accessindia.org.in>
Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 3:51 AM
Subject: Re: [AI] accessible gps comparison
A couple more things:
1. Not all internal receivers are poor. On newer phones like nokia n79 and
the apple iphone, the internal receivers are just as good and sometimes even
better than external receivers. Internal receivers are able to use a
technology called a-gps (which uses data from mobile towers in addition to
satellites to triangulate). A-gps is available on only specific external
receivers.
2. When Pranav says below that only wayfinder and loadstone have maps for
India, he probably means the only 2 accessible products. Nokia maps is free
and they also have detailed maps for Delhi (and I am assuming for other
Indian cities as well) but are not usable with talks. I have used nokia maps
with sighted assistance and they give turn by turn direction announcements
that are just as good as wayfinder. Not to mention Google maps (I am looking
for a product that will give turn by turn announcements with Google maps).
-Manish
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From: accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in
[mailto:accessindia-boun...@accessindia.org.in] On Behalf Of Pranav Lal
Sent: Sunday, February 21, 2010 7:44 AM
To: accessindia@accessindia.org.in
Subject: Re: [AI] accessible gps comparison
Hi,
1. The only two GPS programs that work reliably in India are Wayfinder
Access and loadstone.
2. Accuracy is dependent on the GPS receiver you use. I use GPS heavily and
get accuracy up to 5 meters. I have an external GPS receiver. Most internal
GPS receivers are of poor quality so are less accurate and take a long time
to acquire a signal as compared to external GPS receivers.
3. I have contacted a lot of companies to ask if they have maps for India.
GPS per se will work anywhere in the world but having maps for that area is
the key issue here. They do not consider India a big enough market.
4. Wayfinder Access is an offshoot of a product called Wayfinder. This
product is meant for the main stream and does have good maps for India. This
is what I use everyday. Unfortunately, Vodaphone, who owns the product has
discontinued further development so we are in a bind. Please sign the
petition at http://www.talknav.com/protest
5. Loadstone is an open source product and the users have to make the maps
themselves. The problem with loadstone is that it does not provide routing
capabilities so you will not get turn-by-turn directions unless you define
them while planning your route. The bigger problem is that with loadstone,
you do not know immediately that you are off track. It will not plot an
alternative route for you. This is again a limitation of the kind of map
data that is freely available. You do not have information about streets
etc., in freely available map data.
I hope that clarifies the GPS issue.
Pranav
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