I've been playing around w/ the GPS and Tango all day. I love it. very cool to have the maps of the area and be able to find stuff. However, I would like the ability to plug in an address or lat/log location and have it place a waypoint on the map from that, rather than have to find it on the existing map.
any ideas on that? steve wrote: > Thanks Mickey, > > TANGO GPS was one of the first teams I decided to give a Free FreeRunner > to. > > I'm glad to hear that it will be in milestone2. > > Steve > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael 'Mickey' > Lauer > Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 6:46 AM > To: community@lists.openmoko.org > Subject: Re: GPS application (was: Request for help: Would like > communityapplications to show anddiscuss at LinuxWorld) > > Am Dienstag 29 Juli 2008 15:28:56 schrieb rakshat hooja: >>> Moreover the '800 pound gorilla' OM is developing its own gps >>> software and I'm not spending my energy competing with it. >>> >>> OM2007.2 is there, it works and I recommend everybody to develop for it. >>> >>> Best regards, >>> Marcus >> Not to start a flame war but even I would like to know why Openmoko >> with its scarce resources is developing its own gps software instead >> of supporting something like Tango GPS that seems to be working so well? > > Dear Rakshat, please don't let yourself be fooled by polemics, I know it's > hard to resist, but we should lean on to the facts. > > Fact is: Openmoko is NOT developing its own gps software, in fact we all > like Tango GPS a lot. It talks nicely to our opgsd implementation and will > be included by default in the FSO milestone2. > > What we did though was to write a framework subsystem implementing the > org.freedesktop.Gypso dbus protcol, enhancing it to support the great U-Blox > chip found in the Neo Freerunner devices, enhancing it to hook into the > systemwide peripheral resource control, enhancing it to prepare for > automatic downloading/uploading almanac and ephemeris to improve warmstart. > So, in a > nutshell: We provided the necessary middleware (as is the rest of FSO) to > make things run better. Of course we will also discuss with upstream about > how to improve the gypsy implementation of org.freedesktop.Gypsy. > > Please see Daniel Willmann's announcement for more details. > > Cheers, > -- > :M: _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
