RE: GPS application (was: Request for help: Would like communityapplications to show anddiscuss at LinuxWorld)
Bike mount? Or car mount? Guillermo how hard is that? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Coggins Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 4:57 AM To: List for Openmoko community discussion Subject: Re: GPS application (was: Request for help: Would like communityapplications to show anddiscuss at LinuxWorld) If you don't need a GPS that's great but I find them really useful. Yes, maps and a compasses are really useful but they are quite bulky and you need the right one. Thanks to the FreeRunner I've now got localised, street level maps for a large part of the work (OSM[0]) in my pocket. In addition to this I don't even have to work out where I am and what direction I am moving in. I'm also looking for a mount for my bicycle handlebars so I'll have a full bike computer with me when I'm riding - speed, direction, time and distance will all be displayed for me along with the map. If I think of anything else I want to hand I could either implement it myself or ask the tangoGPS guys. And they are *so* much fun in planes :) Tim [0] http://www.openstreetmap.org/ On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 11:23 AM, Ken Restivo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 12:38:07PM +0300, Mikko Rauhala wrote: ti, 2008-07-29 kello 20:53 +0200, Marcus Bauer kirjoitti: I'm a huge Openstreetmap fan but until OSM is ready for routing this will take at least five more years, probably ten. That's probably true _if you drive a car_ (though even for that it can be a handy help, especially in areas that don't happen to have lots of turn restrictions, though you of course don't want to just blindly drive listening to it anyway). Us others want navigation too and are considerably less hampered by OSM's current lackings. 'course, there are other projects than TangoGPS, but it seems otherwise nice so one would like it to include this as well. As long as I'm not coding it, it's not my call, of course :] PS: Kudos for your work and all, but with all your hyperbole, jumping to conclusions, accusations of lying and stuff, you might want to take a step back for a breather if you want, you know, people to bother to listen to you instead of just wanting to rant wildly. I have a really dumb question: What is the point of having GPS anyway? I don't travel much, so perhaps that's why I just don't get it. If I'm navigating around a strange city, though, a hardcopy map is plenty good. I spend most of my time walking or taking public transport, within a very short radius, in an area I already know very well. I'm just not getting what's cool or exciting about GPS. -ken ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
RE: GPS application (was: Request for help: Would like communityapplications to show anddiscuss at LinuxWorld)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songlines Those magic spots. And navigation. And music.I thought you would like this. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jay Vaughan Sent: Saturday, August 02, 2008 12:49 PM To: List for Openmoko community discussion Subject: Re: GPS application (was: Request for help: Would like communityapplications to show anddiscuss at LinuxWorld) What is the point of having GPS anyway? Its nice, when you're navigating around an unfamiliar area, to be able to have a realtime update of where you are exactly. Its also fun to have a trace of your trip, if you're the kind of person who gets out a bit. Nice in the forests and among nature, for example, to find that 'magic spot' again .. I spend most of my time walking or taking public transport, within a very short radius, in an area I already know very well. I'm just not getting what's cool or exciting about GPS. GPS is a good reason to get out more. ; -- Jay Vaughan ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
RE: GPS application (was: Request for help: Would like communityapplications to show anddiscuss at LinuxWorld)
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 ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
