Hi,
I'd like to use my netbook to show a moving map. Assuming that I
somehow get gpsd hooked up and delivering position reports[*], what
software can I use?
I'm toying with GpsDrive at the moment but things look a bit glum; it
seems that it either expects me to install mapnik+postgres on my poor
little Atom netbook, or scrape tiles from tiles@home.
My preferred map data source would be a local directory with tiles in it
(or anything created from such a directory - don't worry I'm not
scraping them, I'm making them myself, just not on this machine!). A
proper vector rendering engine would be ok also but it needs to be nice
to the CPU.
I read somewhere that GpsDrive could also use the Gosmore vector
rendering but GpsDrive documentation tends to be a bit historic at times
so if anyone has got anywhere with GpsDrive I'd be interested.
As for other options - should I maybe give Navit a try? Last time I used
it was years ago and it was quite clumsy.
I was wondering if a browser/OpenLayers based approach could work.
Simply do a small CGI script that queries gpsd and returns the current
location, then write an OpenLayers application that runs ajaxy queries
against the local web server and sets a new map center. Has anybody done
that perhaps?
Bye
Frederik
[*] The machine is a Nokia Booklet 3G. It has a built-in GPS and I've
got so far as to let gpsd exchange messages with it, however it doesn't
ever seem to see a satellite, at all. I might have to hook it up with an
external GPS after all.
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Frederik Ramm ## eMail frede...@remote.org ## N49°00'09" E008°23'33"
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