Hi, On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 1:31 PM, Guilhem Bonnefille <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I try to follow Geoclue from a long time now. But I lack spare time > and I wasn't able to play with it (yet). > > Currently, I have some naïve question. Does anybody worked on building > an offline Geoclue provider based on OpenStreetMap data? > I'm thinking about geocoding (routing?) sort of GeoClue provider. > > I know that OSM data can already be processed offline by at least two > projects: navit and gosmore. The idea is to extract a library from one > of these project and build a GeoClue provider using the related data. > > Do you think it is a good idea? Does someone already try this way? Is > it foolish/uneeded? > > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Navit > http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Gosmore > -- > Guilhem BONNEFILLE > -=- JID: [email protected] MSN: [email protected] > -=- mailto:[email protected] > -=- http://nathguil.free.fr/ > _______________________________________________ > GeoClue mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/geoclue >
I did not work on offline routing provider yet but I was experimenting to create a routing interface for GeoClue which was used with online routing providers (and can also be used for offline routing). I did not publish or announce my work but if there is interest I am willing to continue with my work. I am not yet sure if it routing via GeoClue / DBus even makes sense. Simple offline geocoding could IMHO be accomplished with OSM data, sqlite with spatialite and a custom provider, but the whole world data might be huge - depending on what to add in the database. For my final work at university I will make a simplified offline routing program using OSM data which I will make using Vala and will be in form of a library. I will announce when I will have something working. Besides navit and gosmore there is also monav which is also interesting. regards, Tomaž _______________________________________________ GeoClue mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/geoclue
