Re: [OSM-talk] OSM Maps on TomTom

[grahamjones139]

It looks like the TomTom will not be difficult to write code for. TomTom  
themselves recognise that they have used OpenSource code to develop it, and  
provide the open source bits of the software (linux kernels, libraries, and  
compiler) (http://www.tomtom.com/page.php?Page=gpl).
It looks quite easy to get a program running on it - the main problem for  
me will be graphics - without looking at the kernel sources it is not  
obvious how they have coded it - no SDL or GTK libraries listed etc - they  
might be writing directly to the framebuffer with their own code.


I'll have a look sometime, but if anyone with experience of graphics on  
embedded systems fancies a look, I would appreciate some pointers on how to  
get it drawing on the screen!


Graham.

On Apr 8, 2010 5:49am, Marcus Wolschon marcus.wolsc...@googlemail.com  
wrote:
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 10:33 AM, John Smith deltafoxtrot...@gmail.com  
wrote:





 Most hardware hackers just require a new toy to start off, so perhaps



 step one would be to get a donation of hardware and/or raise the funds



 needed to purchase one.





It´s the same TomTom-software they use on smartphones.



No special hardware needed to develop for it.



AND thes have an SDK.







MArcus





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Re: [OSM-talk] Still interest in an Android POI collector?

[grahamjones139]

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POI, track, and photo collection would be useful additional features,



along with something to highlight in the directions where there is a



FIXME or OSMbug entry nearby on the map.





I think that integrating these features into Navit (perhaps as plugins),



rather than having a separate app would be of much greater benefit.





Robert (Jamie) Munro


Robert,
I am not sure that adding more features to another application is the best  
way to do it - To be useful something like POI and photo collection needs  
to be really simple, without having to go through a lot of menus to get  
there. Therefore I think it would be best to have one application that does  
navigation, and another one for collecting mapping information or tweaking  
the map on the go.
That said, you could recycle a lot of the code and share it between the  
two, but I would rather have a separate application with a simpler user  
interface. It may be possible to effectively have a command line switch on  
Android so you can have one application but different shortcuts to start it  
with different user interfaces - I have never tried to do that though!


Graham.
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