Re: [ubuntu-uk] Route Planning Solution?

2008-04-14 Thread Ken Adams
If you have a 3G card to use, can you not use something like Googlemaps/earth? Rgds Ken On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 11:23 +0100, Alex Barrett wrote: All, Thanks for your replies so far guys but Is there nothing out there like Autoroute? or a method to get Autoroute to work. They also have

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Route Planning Solution?

2008-04-14 Thread Alex Barrett
These are pretty useless to me as they don't contain width/height/weight restrictions where something like Autoroute does. Alex Sean Miller wrote: Surely http://theaa.co.uk route planner would be better? Far less bandwidth... Sean -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Route Planning Solution?

2008-04-14 Thread Ged
Alex Barrett wrote: Hi guys, I'm starting a career as a long distance lorry driver and am looking for some way to get a route planning solution, such as Autoroute onto my Xubuntu laptop - which I carry with me as I go. Sorry Alex, I thought you were going to be a newbie doing long

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Route Planning Solution?

2008-04-14 Thread Chris Rose
On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 13:30 +0100, Philip Stubbs wrote: Looking at winehq, it seems that Autoroute will not work under wine. The next thing to try would be something like VirtualBox. I use VirtualBox and Seamless Virtualisation [1] to run Windows apps that don't run under Wine nicely. [1]

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Route Planning Solution?

2008-04-14 Thread Kris Douglas
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 2:02 PM, Chris Rose [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 13:30 +0100, Philip Stubbs wrote: Looking at winehq, it seems that Autoroute will not work under wine. The next thing to try would be something like VirtualBox. I use VirtualBox and Seamless

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Route Planning Solution?

2008-04-14 Thread Alex Barrett
This looks very interesting! Thank you Stephen! At the very least it would give me an interesting coding project to try create a usable GUI for it in my, rather abundant, spare time! One of the other things I am trying out is getting Sony's Route Finder app to work under WINE, But an Open

[ubuntu-uk] Route Planning Solution?

2008-04-13 Thread Alex Barrett
Hi guys, I'm starting a career as a long distance lorry driver and am looking for some way to get a route planning solution, such as Autoroute onto my Xubuntu laptop - which I carry with me as I go. I can't always guarantee I'll have internet access so web only solutions such as Google maps

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Route Planning Solution?

2008-04-13 Thread Alan Pope
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 11:20:58PM +0100, Alex Barrett wrote: Hi guys, I'm starting a career as a long distance lorry driver and am looking for some way to get a route planning solution, such as Autoroute onto my Xubuntu laptop - which I carry with me as I go. I can't always guarantee

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Route Planning Solution?

2008-04-13 Thread Ged
Alex Barrett wrote: My SatNav is good but only up to a certain point when you start searching for things with vague addresses. I'm a private hire driver and I would tell you to use a map and plan your routes so you learn the roads. Use the gps on the final run into town. We have drivers