I'm interested in using OsmAnd on a motorcycle; I would like to discuss possible ways to optimize it for this use case. That said, some of these optimizations might also be useful in an automobile. Here are a few ideas, to get things started...
Since I don't want to take my eyes off the road any longer than necessary, I'd like a largish, daylight-visible display. My plan is to use a Pixel Qi PQ3QI-01 in its reflective (grayscale, 3072x600 pixel) mode. I'll be driving this by a Raspberry Pi, linked to my Android cell phone by Wi-Fi. I expect to run the navigation app (eg, OsmAnd) on the cell phone, using the RasPi mostly as a display device. However, I'm open to other suggestions. One possible OsmAnd optimization would be to reduce details and raise the contrast. A black and white display of nearby roads is really all I need, though labeling of some roads might be useful. I suspect that this can be done by an appropriate CSS file. Another optimization has to do with connectivity. One possibility would be to have OsmAnd run on the cell phone, but send the map images over Wi-Fi to the RasPi. Alternatively, the RasPi could poll OsmAnd, asking for map data (eg, in JSON format) and then display the maps itself. I don't know what is currently supported; so any clues would be welcome! -r -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Osmand" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to osmand+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
