Hi Everyone, I am pleased to announce version 0.5 of osm-gps-map, a library, and python bindings for displaying raster map data from a variety of different sources.
Where to Get It ============ Homepage: * http://nzjrs.github.com/osm-gps-map/ Downloads: * http://www.johnstowers.co.nz/files/osm-gps-map/osm-gps-map-0.5.0.tar.gz * http://www.johnstowers.co.nz/files/osm-gps-map/python-osmgpsmap-0.5.0.tar.gz Downloads (windows): * http://www.johnstowers.co.nz/files/osm-gps-map/osm-gps-map-0.5.0_win32.zip * http://www.johnstowers.co.nz/files/osm-gps-map/python-osmgpsmap-0.5.win32-py2.6.exe What is New ============ * Note: Many of the improvements this release was based on code from Till Harbaum * GDK drawing is not supported anymore, you must have cairo installed * Use automake silent rules * Add keyboard navigation support to map widget * Draw GPS heading in position indicator * Allow disabling of tile cache * You can now change the map source at runtime * Redraw and performance improvements * Update python bindings * Build and run correctly on Windows * Add OPENCYCLEMAP and OSM_PUBLIC_TRANSPORT * A new "changed" signal. Connect to this to monitor when the map zoom/scroll or center changes. * Add osm_gps_map_source_is_valid What Is It ============ osm-gps-map is a Gtk+ widget (and Python bindings) that when given GPS co-ordinates, draws a GPS track, and points of interest on a moving map display. It Currently supports a number of different mapping sources; * openstreetmap (default) * maps-for-free * satellite maps from a number of proprietary providers It also has the following features; * Intelligent caching of maps, including the ability to request a specific area of the map to be cached ahead of time * Recording of points of interest on the map (and the ability to add arbitary pixmaps at those points * Automatically draws a GPS track (a line showing the history of past added points) * Automatic centering on new GPS points * Support for multiple other tracks of co-ordinate points * Adjustable Zoom * Includes comprehensive examples (C and Python) * Simple, flat API John Stowers _______________________________________________ gnome-announce-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-announce-list
