Yes, ease of use is also an important thing other than power-safe and stability. In fact I haven't ever used any GPS application other than TangoGPS. Before writing this application, I know nothing about GPS, GTK+ at all.
Other commercial level applications must have excellent ideas that I can borrow from, unfortunately I don't have such devices, thus your suggestions are important. UBX 4/5 supports configuring navigation model via CFG-NAV2 or CFG-NAV5. Options are: * 1 Stationary * 2 Pedestrian * 3 Automotive * 4 Sea * 5 Airborne with <1g Acceleration * 6 Airborne with <2g Acceleration * 7 Airborne with <4g Acceleration Default is automotive. As of my understanding, the model determines how GPS receiver calculates fixes, automotive should be OK, right? William Kenworthy wrote: > > On Wed, 2009-05-27 at 08:37 +0300, Risto H. Kurppa wrote: >> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 1:05 AM, mqy <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Although there is a thread about omgps, I think I'd list the important >> things >> > here. >> > Those who have installed previous version(s) are recommend to do a >> update. >> > >> > download url: >> > http://omgps.googlecode.com/files/omgps_0.1_armv4t-20090527-1.ipk >> > >> > Important updates since first release on 2009-05-21: >> >> Wow, nice! Keep up the good work! >> >> BTw about the autocenter feature: could it update the position a bit >> earlier than when hitting the edge, let's say when there's 1/3 of the >> screen left before hitting the edge? Just to allow you to see more in >> the direction you're going to. >> >> THanks! >> >> >> r > > I would like to add my request for this as well - at the moment its not > usable when driving/or riding a bike as you cant see whats coming. Even > better than the 1/3, would be to offset the cursor so that 2/3 (or more) > of the screen is "ahead", and only a small amount is behind (none of the > FR gps apps I have tried do this - but TV adds for Nokias and the like > seem to show it as standard on those devices - very few people > riding/driving or usually even when walking are interested in where they > have been - its where they are going thats important. Sliding the map > under the cursor is a much better idea than redrawing the screen when > you get to the edge when moving for this reason. > > Even when walking, the current update method means you are always > manually centring so it never gets to the edge ... so any power savings > via reduced cpu are illusory as the user is always interacting with it > anyway. And thats something best not done when driving/riding :) > > There may be scope here for a mode setting in the config - walk, drive > etc - the antaris GPS chip does have settable parameters for these > modes. > > BillK > > > > _______________________________________________ > Openmoko community mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community > > -- View this message in context: http://n2.nabble.com/-omgps--important-updates-tp2977563p2981457.html Sent from the Openmoko Community mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
