On Sep 30, 2014, at 17:12, Alec Ten Harmsel <a...@alectenharmsel.com> wrote:
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>
>> On 09/30/2014 10:05 AM, meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote:
>> Suppose the GPS would already be attached
>> to the board and works...
>>
>> Is there any free available software and data for
>> strict offline useage (which does NOT calls
>> to home), which is able to map GPS data to a street/land
>> map?
>> I need both: The maps themselves and the logic to read
>> GPS coordinates and map movements and ways to those maps.
>>
>> Is something like that available for free or should
>> I directly ask the NSA/CIA/FBI/...?
>>
>> Thank you very much in advance for any help!
>> Best regards,
>> mcc
> The only project I know of that has openly available map data is
> OpenStreetMap (openstreetmap.org). I know they have an API, and they
> probably (not sure) have maps available for download.
>
> afaik the only way to combine various map data out of the box is to use
> a GIS package like QGIS. You can write software to do this using the
> proj4 library for an embedded box, not sure if anything for your
> specific use case already exists and is open source.
>
> Alec
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