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Re: [ gpsdrive ] Fwd: Checking the mailinglist
> Hamish wrote: kd4e wrote:
>> Well, it is working for you, my posts are not making it to the list
>> for some reason ... sigh.
>
> 5 by 5 here in New Zealand.
Must have been a backlog somewhere, perhaps here in the
Verizon E-mail system. Several posts from the gpsdrive
popped up in my Inbox all at once!
>> Joerg Ostertag (gpsdrive Munich/Germany) wrote:
> What we definitely cannot provide yet is real navigation.
> We (GpsDrive) only have a moving map. But we're working
> on getting Vectordata (from OSM) into gpsdrive. The first
> Beta test where already successfull. This would (in the
> long term) enable us to get Routing to your destination.
> But it's a hard and long way. So if you're willing to join
> us on this stony and difficult path, we'll definitely
> welcome you here. Because every helping hand will be welcome.
I use Puppy Linux because the folks there have a similar
positive "get it done" attitude as yours and they have
drawn into the project lots of folks from around the
world.
It may be worth comunicating with the folks at Puppy
as I am certain they would love to have a GPS app as
part of the mix of resources for Puppy users.
Some things under Puppy work great, some things work OK,
and some things are under development. There is constant
incremental improvement.
If I understand correctly gpsdrive will import free
maps downloaded from the Internet and display them
under Linux on a laptop. Yes?
Also, you are saying that one must currently use an
Internet mapping program to determine the routing
and manually enter that into gpsdrive, then gpsdrive
would scroll the map as one actually followed that
routing?
One *goal* is to be able to enter beginning and ending
points and have gpsdrive bring up the map and show the
routing?
Additional *extras* will be voice input and output
and a variety of other goodies?
> It does help if you have programming skills, but we
> have more than enough things (from writing Documentation,
> testing, collecting new tracks, proofreading, translating,
> ...) which we would be very happy if we would get
> help with.
I am best at breaking things! :-)
What little programming and code troubleshooting and
patching I have done is many years ago, and even then
I was not trained nor very adept at it. :-(
I can help with documentation, testing, and proofreading.
I am not certain what "collecting new tracks" would
involve and am unfortunately typical of folks here in
the USA, I am mono-linguistic. I have studied some
French and Spanish but did not use it and lost it.
I could run non-English texts through the AltaVista
BabelFish app and clean them up on the English side.
>> I want to buy a Bluetooth GPS for gpsdrive but not if navigation is
>> unreliable.
> This heavily depends what you define as unreliable.
> If you are located anywhere near Germany; I could borrow
> one of my GPS for testing for some weeks to you. If
> not someone else in your area might give you a helping
> hand in borrowing you a GPS for testing this out.
I am about to buy one of the Cellink BTG-7000 Bluetooth
GPS devices. Would that be a helpful device as part of
your development or would you prefer folks use USB devices?
>> WDYT?
> I would decide by the following choices:
>
> 1) If you need real Navigation with everything you can
> imagine (Voice, on-the-fly rerouting, searching in a
> streetname Database, ...) and you want to use it NOW.
> You should definitely by one of these little Navigation
> devices which can be used without extra testing and
> installing around.
Right now I'd be happy with a scrolling map for the
USA, one that tells me where I am and one I may zoom
in for closer detail and out for the big picture.
Essentially an electronic map.
It would be good if I could enter a beginning and
ending address and have it bring up a routing map
but I understand that such a feature is under development
-- I can live without that feature for now as I almost
always begin at home or office where I can pull up a
route via the http://ask.com mapping resource.
> And if you want to contribute to GpsDrive or our
> preferred upstream mapsource OSM (www.openstreetmap.org)
> we would be really happy.
No deep pockets here, thus the preference to help with
open source and the reluctance to spend hundreds on
commercial handheld GPS devices, but I will see what
I can do as far as a small contribution to both.
--
Thanks! & 73, doc, KD4E
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