On 2015-09-09 17:23, Karl Karsten wrote: > Inspired by an article in www.heise.de about "7-Zoll-Touch-Display für > Raspberry Pi" I ask myself whether it's possible to run QLandkarteGT on > a Raspberry Pi to build my own Bicycle Navigation System?!
I once had a similar idea, and while I am a fan of the Raspberry Pi (I have two of them running as servers for many things) I found them unsuitable for navigation and GPS logging. First of all you need to carry around not only the Raspberry Pi itself, but also a rather large battery as the Raspberry Pi needs a relatively large amount of power. Also you need to make the electrical connection between battery and Raspberry Pi very strong, as a power loss may corrupt your memory card. Then you need to add on a touch display and a GPS receiver, and perhaps some other things. In the end my conclusion was that this is a nice idea, but the implementation gets very messy very rapidly. So I bought an Android smartphone, a Samsung GT-S7390, which has everything I need, and has Wifi, Bluetooth and a camera as bonuses. The apps I use most are Google Maps and Google MyTracks. Part of my contract with my ISP is a free data-only SIMcard, so I actually use this smartphone as a small and light tablet. I use Google Drive to transfer the tracks to my desktop computer, where I use QLandkarteGT to manipulate them. (Migration to QMapShack is Work In Progress. :-) ) Jeroen. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monitor Your Dynamic Infrastructure at Any Scale With Datadog! Get real-time metrics from all of your servers, apps and tools in one place. SourceForge users - Click here to start your Free Trial of Datadog now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=241902991&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Qlandkartegt-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/qlandkartegt-users
