one of the more pathetic tricks of those proprietary gadgets on the car dashboard, is that they tell you what road you're on, as if you didn't know from the signs...
now, anyone with the pyroutelib2 or pyrender applications installed can now do the same: http://svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/rendering/pyrender/whatAmIOn.py > python whatAmIOn.py 51.678935 -0.826256 A4010 > python whatAmIOn.py 50.97886 -0.75829 Bepton Road > time python whatAmIOn.py 50.92647 -1.28707 Botley Wood to Netley Common real 0m0.361s (note: this is a power line. pyrender doesn't assume you're not travelling along it) > python whatAmIOn.py 30.2791 120.1251 学院路 if you're following a route that pyroutelib2 generated, the relevant data tiles should already be in memory and it will work without a network connection. if you have a network connection it should always work. [filtering by ways accessible to your current vehicle is left as an excercise for the reader] regards, OJW p.s. please no comments about hardcoding: whatAmIOn{return("caffeine")}... _______________________________________________ Routing mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/routing
