On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 3:29 PM, Matt Minuti <matt.min...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Aug 25, 2015 11:25 AM, "David Rysdam" <da...@rysdam.org> wrote:
> >
> > Tom Buskey <t...@buskey.name> writes:
> > > Is this project going to be a stand alone GPS w/no internet like a
> garmin
> > > or something like google maps on a phone? That will drive some of your
> > > design decisions.
> > >
> > > If it has internet access, will it use mobile wireless or
> wifi/ethernet?
> > > Does it need to be usable in a car?
> >
> > I've been envisioning using it on a phone or tablet. Because I'm a
> > cheapskate that doesn't pay much for data, it would need to be able to
> > work offline. But the entire idea is that I'd put a GPX on there and it
> > would only navigate me through that without changing the route (other
> > than getting me back to the route if I stray from it), so that's not a
> > big problem.
> >
> > Still, I've got some use cases that would involve data or wifi. For
> > instance, creating my route at a hotel room (either on the phone or on a
> > real comptuer and sending it to the phone), then navigating
> > offline. That could work well with a tablet, which tend to have wifi but
> > not mobile data in the lower end, anyway.
>
> Sounds to me the target is offline, then. Can always add something to
> fetch maps, but adding local offline processing ought to be harder.
>
> If you go ahead with this, there's two features I feel like every GPS I've
> used has lacked, though not from lack of data.
> 1. There's often an "avoid tolls" or "this route has tolls," but never
> anything hinting at how much it will cost. A $1 toll is a lot nicer than a
> $30 one.
> 2. "Find on the way" would be an amazing thing. Imagine, you ask for a
> ${DONUTSHOP} on the way from A to B, and it finds one that's minimally off
> the planned route.
>
My 3yr old garmin will find stuff near destination or along route. Not as
easy as it should be though.
My car has something else and I can avoid whole roads which is nice.
Sometime you don't want to go north on 93 on Friday. Rt 3 is less
congested...
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