Hi,
In order to provide fun to my children while hiking, I plan to play
geocaching.
I notice viking has some stuff in tools subdirectory. But it seems to
be a part of a dedicated project. Any reason for this? Why not simply
use it as gpsbabel, ie as a dedicated external project? Nevertheless, I
noticed this project is not in Debian archive. Probably need a help.
Since it was just a couple of public domain shell scripts I thought it wouldn't
harm to chuck it in the repository.
Especially as they're not packaged any where else.
I also notice an other similar project, called geotoad:
https://code.google.com/p/geotoad/wiki/README#Command-Line_Syntax
I think geotoad is the one packaged for my N900 (yes, I also installed
a geocaching tool for my n900).
Perhaps can we give choice to user which backend tool he wants to use?
Probably not - unless you want to deal with how each external program has
different options.
I say pick one and stick with it.
Note: I only test the tool packaged in viking. And it is really slow.
Yes, it's really slow - but that's the draw back of having to screen scrape
each individual geocache result to learn any detail about it.
Not yet tested geotoad.
Feels a little quicker - it's own local caching mechanism is probably better
the the geo*tools, but still takes a while overall.
Would be nice to display the text feedback of progress in Viking.
Geotoad doesn't seem to write the final geocache to stdout only to a named
file, but should be more cross platform than the geo*tools bash scripts.
The other nice thing is at least it's one program.
I'd suggest changing to it and making Geocache part of the default build. (Then
I won't forget to update the file when types change!)
I've attached the little hack to get Geotoad working with Viking, I hope that
can start you off. It works for me.
diff --git a/src/datasource_gc.c b/src/datasource_gc.c
index 14df1e2..7ad4d55 100644
--- a/src/datasource_gc.c
+++ b/src/datasource_gc.c
@@ -33,7 +33,8 @@
#include preferences.h
// Could have an array of programs instead...
-#define GC_PROGRAM1 geo-nearest
+#define GC_PROGRAM1 geotoad
+//#define GC_PROGRAM1 geo-nearest
#define GC_PROGRAM2 geo-html2gpx
/* params will be geocaching.username, geocaching.password */
@@ -107,24 +108,26 @@ static gpointer datasource_gc_init ( )
static gchar *datasource_gc_check_existence ()
{
gboolean OK1 = FALSE;
- gboolean OK2 = FALSE;
+ //gboolean OK2 = FALSE;
gchar *location1 = g_find_program_in_path(GC_PROGRAM1);
if ( location1 ) {
g_free(location1);
OK1 = TRUE;
}
-
+ /*
gchar *location2 = g_find_program_in_path(GC_PROGRAM2);
if ( location2 ) {
g_free(location2);
OK2 = TRUE;
}
-
- if ( OK1 OK2 )
+ */
+ //if ( OK1 OK2 )
+ if ( OK1 )
return NULL;
- return g_strdup_printf(_(Can't find %s or %s in path! Check that you have installed it correctly.), GC_PROGRAM1, GC_PROGRAM2);
+ //return g_strdup_printf(_(Can't find %s or %s in path! Check that you have installed it correctly.), GC_PROGRAM1, GC_PROGRAM2);
+ return g_strdup_printf(_(Can't find %s in path! Check that you have installed it correctly.), GC_PROGRAM1);
}
static void datasource_gc_draw_circle ( datasource_gc_widgets_t *widgets )
@@ -191,7 +194,7 @@ static void datasource_gc_add_setup_widgets ( GtkWidget *dialog, VikViewport *vv
center_label = gtk_label_new (_(Centered around:));
widgets-center_entry = gtk_entry_new();
miles_radius_label = gtk_label_new (Miles Radius:);
- widgets-miles_radius_spin = gtk_spin_button_new ( GTK_ADJUSTMENT(gtk_adjustment_new( 5, 1, 1000, 1, 20, 0 )), 25, 1 );
+ widgets-miles_radius_spin = gtk_spin_button_new ( GTK_ADJUSTMENT(gtk_adjustment_new( 2, 0, 100, 1, 20, 1 )), 10, 1 );
vik_coord_to_latlon ( vik_viewport_get_center(vvp), ll );
s_ll = g_strdup_printf(%f,%f, ll.lat, ll.lon );
@@ -235,14 +238,19 @@ static void datasource_gc_get_cmd_string ( datasource_gc_widgets_t *widgets, gch
// 3. Converts webpages into a single waypoint file, ignoring zero location waypoints '-z'
// Probably as they are premium member only geocaches and user is only a basic member
// Final output is piped into GPSbabel - hence removal of *html is done at beginning of the command sequence
- *cmd = g_strdup_printf( rm -f ~/.geo/caches/*html ; %s -P -n%d -r%.1fM -u %s -p %s %.4f %.4f ; %s -z ~/.geo/caches/*html ,
+ // *cmd = g_strdup_printf( rm -f ~/.geo/caches/*html ; %s -P -n%d -r%.1fM -u %s -p %s %.4f %.4f ; %s -z ~/.geo/caches/*html ,
+
+ // Geotoad limits per page - not sure how many per page ATM pick 10 as something close...
+ gint number = gtk_spin_button_get_value_as_int ( GTK_SPIN_BUTTON(widgets-num_spin) );
+ // ATM I can't see how (if it even can) output to stdout :(
+ *cmd = g_strdup_printf( %s -L %d -y %.1f -u %s -p %s -q coord \%.4f %.4f\ -o /tmp/geotoad$$ ; cat /tmp/geotoad$$,
