Re: [GPS] new GPS GUI application for OM freerunner

2009-05-22 Thread rixed
 I did not suppose user is root at all, even though we are all roots,

No we are not.
I run hackable:1 under a regular user.


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Re: [GPS] new GPS GUI application for OM freerunner

2009-05-22 Thread W.Kenworthy
Hi mgy, good little app.

I tried it in the car yesterday and found that the cursor moved off the
map unless manually centred - is there a way to make the cursor fixed
and the map move under it as does tangogps?  Its not possible to
continually hit centre whilst driving/biking.

I do like the way the display is organised - better, cleaner and more
informative.

BillK


On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 12:53 -0700, mqy wrote:
 Hi all:
 
 I got my gta02 freerunner on DEC 2008. 
 After nearly 5 months development, I'm happy to announce the first alpha
 release of omgps.
 
 It is not as feature rich as other GPS applications, such as tangoGPS,
 anyway I think it should satisfy most of 
 the daily needs. Please goto http://code.google.com/p/omgps/, download and
 give a try.
 
 After ten years of programming as a web developer for most of the time, now
 I join the community with my little gift :) Thanks you to open source
 community -- for your great works and spirits. 
 


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Re: [GPS] new GPS GUI application for OM freerunner

2009-05-22 Thread mqy

Thanks for the report!
I finally found the bug that when cursor moves out of left or top
screen, the keep location/cursor in view mechanism fails.

William Kenworthy, also pointed out this problem, here is my reply (I
didn't notice this problem at that time):
http://n2.nabble.com/forum/Permalink.jtp?root=2948257post=2952181page=y

I'm adding a indicator for the keep cursor in view state. New
package will be uploaded within 1 day.

Regards

2009/5/22 William Kenworthy (via Nabble) ml-user+1677-108203...@n2.nabble.com:
 Hi mgy, good little app.

 I tried it in the car yesterday and found that the cursor moved off the
 map unless manually centred - is there a way to make the cursor fixed
 and the map move under it as does tangogps?  Its not possible to
 continually hit centre whilst driving/biking.

 I do like the way the display is organised - better, cleaner and more
 informative.

 BillK


 On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 12:53 -0700, mqy wrote:
 Hi all:

 I got my gta02 freerunner on DEC 2008.
 After nearly 5 months development, I'm happy to announce the first alpha
 release of omgps.

 It is not as feature rich as other GPS applications, such as tangoGPS,
 anyway I think it should satisfy most of
 the daily needs. Please goto http://code.google.com/p/omgps/, download and
 give a try.

 After ten years of programming as a web developer for most of the time,
 now
 I join the community with my little gift :) Thanks you to open source
 community -- for your great works and spirits.


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Re: [GPS] new GPS GUI application for OM freerunner

2009-05-22 Thread William Kenworthy
Thanks, this will make it much more useful.

BillK

On Fri, 2009-05-22 at 07:57 -0700, mqy wrote:
 Thanks for the report!
 I finally found the bug that when cursor moves out of left or top
 screen, the keep location/cursor in view mechanism fails.
 
 William Kenworthy, also pointed out this problem, here is my reply (I
 didn't notice this problem at that time):
 http://n2.nabble.com/forum/Permalink.jtp?root=2948257post=2952181page=y
 
 I'm adding a indicator for the keep cursor in view state. New
 package will be uploaded within 1 day.
 
 Regards
 
 2009/5/22 William Kenworthy (via Nabble) 
 ml-user+1677-108203...@n2.nabble.com:
  Hi mgy, good little app.
 
  I tried it in the car yesterday and found that the cursor moved off the
  map unless manually centred - is there a way to make the cursor fixed
  and the map move under it as does tangogps?  Its not possible to
  continually hit centre whilst driving/biking.
 
  I do like the way the display is organised - better, cleaner and more
  informative.
 
  BillK
 
 
  On Wed, 2009-05-20 at 12:53 -0700, mqy wrote:
  Hi all:
 
  I got my gta02 freerunner on DEC 2008.
  After nearly 5 months development, I'm happy to announce the first alpha
  release of omgps.
 
  It is not as feature rich as other GPS applications, such as tangoGPS,
  anyway I think it should satisfy most of
  the daily needs. Please goto http://code.google.com/p/omgps/, download and
  give a try.
 
  After ten years of programming as a web developer for most of the time,
  now
  I join the community with my little gift :) Thanks you to open source
  community -- for your great works and spirits.
 
 
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Re: [GPS] new GPS GUI application for OM freerunner

2009-05-21 Thread David Reyes Samblas Martinez
Nice app :)
I know it should be no easy, but a feature that I miss both in Tango
and this is the ability to rotate the maps accordingly the direction
you are moving on to have always up i the screen what you have in
front of you. Maybe a semi transparent Compass on the scree can help
to not get confused. offcourse it has to be an option you can
dissable/enable.
But when you move in bike for example it can be an awesome feature.



2009/5/20 mqy meng.qing...@gmail.com:

 Hi all:

 I got my gta02 freerunner on DEC 2008.
 After nearly 5 months development, I'm happy to announce the first alpha
 release of omgps.

 It is not as feature rich as other GPS applications, such as tangoGPS,
 anyway I think it should satisfy most of
 the daily needs. Please goto http://code.google.com/p/omgps/, download and
 give a try.

 After ten years of programming as a web developer for most of the time, now
 I join the community with my little gift :) Thanks you to open source
 community -- for your great works and spirits.

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Re: [GPS] new GPS GUI application for OM freerunner

2009-05-21 Thread Laszlo KREKACS
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 8:52 AM, David Reyes Samblas Martinez
da...@tuxbrain.com wrote:
 I know it should be no easy, but a feature that I miss both in Tango
Hi!

What I miss is street name search. In openstreetmap we can search, so it is
possible somehow to extract street names and gps coordinates of them.

I could download all street names within a rectangle, so lets say the
area of my town.
Thats way it wouldn't be confused, if two cities share the same street names.

Is it difficult to implement?


Laszlo

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Re: [GPS] new GPS GUI application for OM freerunner

2009-05-21 Thread mqy

Wild! No easy sure. But... can be done with:

(1) a bigger background pximap
(2) iimage rotation
(3) curve fitting to determine direction
(4) semi transparency as you said

Waste energy! However, to see clearly in sun light, you have to adjust
backlight nearly 100%, thus energy is not a problem.

Since most road segments are straight, I recommend you upgrade your
supporting frame rotate-able  :D

I'm also a biker, but I'm doubting if it is safe to keep watching on
the screen while moving.
That's why I develop the sounding module.

So, your requirement can be classified as optional, agree?

2009/5/21 David Samblas Martinez (via Nabble)
ml-user+115568-1922478...@n2.nabble.com:
 Nice app :)
 I know it should be no easy, but a feature that I miss both in Tango
 and this is the ability to rotate the maps accordingly the direction
 you are moving on to have always up i the screen what you have in
 front of you. Maybe a semi transparent Compass on the scree can help
 to not get confused. offcourse it has to be an option you can
 dissable/enable.
 But when you move in bike for example it can be an awesome feature.


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Re: [GPS] new GPS GUI application for OM freerunner

2009-05-21 Thread W.Kenworthy
On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 08:52 +0200, David Reyes Samblas Martinez wrote:
 Nice app :)
 I know it should be no easy, but a feature that I miss both in Tango
 and this is the ability to rotate the maps accordingly the direction

I am still waiting for gps lock (actually just got it ... in the
office :), but it looks nice so far.  symlinking the map directory to
the tangogps store works fine.

One thing that all gps apps I see on the FR so far do is centre the
cursor/position.  Thats fine when standing still, but I am not really
interested in where I have been, but where I am going so it would be
nice if the cursor/centre of the display was offset appropriately.

Can someone tell me:
what the foot with a red cross through it means - doesnt seem to do
anything.
and similarly, the two diagonal opposing arrows next to it.

BillK




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Re: [GPS] new GPS GUI application for OM freerunner

2009-05-21 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:15 AM, W.Kenworthy bi...@iinet.net.au wrote:
 Can someone tell me:
 what the foot with a red cross through it means - doesnt seem to do
 anything.

My guess is that it's something about 'path' or 'track'..

 and similarly, the two diagonal opposing arrows next to it.

No ideas..


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Re: [GPS] new GPS GUI application for OM freerunner

2009-05-21 Thread arne anka
 Looks great but PLEASE use /home/root/Maps to store map tiles - share
 with Tangogps... right..?

NO!
please, use $HOME/...
this we're all root! madness has to stop -- and hardcoding paths like  
that is really bad anyway.

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Re: [GPS] new GPS GUI application for OM freerunner

2009-05-21 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:54 AM, arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de wrote:
 Looks great but PLEASE use /home/root/Maps to store map tiles - share
 with Tangogps... right..?

 NO!
 please, use $HOME/...
 this we're all root! madness has to stop -- and hardcoding paths like
 that is really bad anyway.

Oops, sorry, you're right :) But anyway I think it'd be great to use
the same folder that Tangogps uses ($HOME/Maps) - I have some 300 000
png tiles there, it's just waste of space, bandwith and time to
download separate files for both - and if/since everyone will symlink,
why not do it by default..


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Re: [GPS] new GPS GUI application for OM freerunner

2009-05-21 Thread David Reyes Samblas Martinez
2009/5/21 mqy meng.qing...@gmail.com:

 Wild! No easy sure. But... can be done with:

 (1) a bigger background pximap
 (2) iimage rotation
 (3) curve fitting to determine direction
 (4) semi transparency as you said


 Waste energy! However, to see clearly in sun light, you have to adjust
 backlight nearly 100%, thus energy is not a problem.

 Since most road segments are straight, I recommend you upgrade your
 supporting frame rotate-able  :D
Well , when the path is straight there is no major problem even gps
not necessary :P, I was thinking more in offroad tracks that sometimes
 are all but straight ;)
In fact my support frame is rotate able, but if looking at the screen
on the go is not secure, biking with one hand, with the other trying
to follow the direction while looking at the screen on a offroad
track... well at least suicidal.the supporting frame   is a prototype
i will try to commercialize,   but as you can understand is a little
bit more complicated than a leather case :) I hope I can move forward
on this and report good news soon.

 I'm also a biker, but I'm doubting if it is safe to keep watching on
 the screen while moving.
And thas the reason is useful to know , in case of doubt , where is
the right path without  following  on the screen what direction your
are moving before stop, just stop, a quick look on the screen and you
know if have the follow the right or the left path in a crossover,
without guessing if the left/right path on the screen is the same as
yours :P
 That's why I develop the sounding module.
Yes is the right way when your are moving sure!

 So, your requirement can be classified as optional, agree?
Totally agree :)

 2009/5/21 David Samblas Martinez (via Nabble)
 ml-user+115568-1922478...@n2.nabble.com:
 Nice app :)
 I know it should be no easy, but a feature that I miss both in Tango
 and this is the ability to rotate the maps accordingly the direction
 you are moving on to have always up i the screen what you have in
 front of you. Maybe a semi transparent Compass on the scree can help
 to not get confused. offcourse it has to be an option you can
 dissable/enable.
 But when you move in bike for example it can be an awesome feature.


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Re: [GPS] new GPS GUI application for OM freerunner

2009-05-21 Thread David Reyes Samblas Martinez
2009/5/21 Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi:
 On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:54 AM, arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de wrote:
 Looks great but PLEASE use /home/root/Maps to store map tiles - share
 with Tangogps... right..?

 NO!
 please, use $HOME/...
 this we're all root! madness has to stop -- and hardcoding paths like
 that is really bad anyway.

 Oops, sorry, you're right :) But anyway I think it'd be great to use
 the same folder that Tangogps uses ($HOME/Maps) - I have some 300 000
 png tiles there, it's just waste of space, bandwith and time to
 download separate files for both - and if/since everyone will symlink,
 why not do it by default..
Good point, just check in if the direrectory exist if true symlink if
not create it.


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Re: [GPS] new GPS GUI application for OM freerunner

2009-05-21 Thread Yorick Moko
you might want to add it on opkg.org maybe

On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:37 AM, David Reyes Samblas Martinez
da...@tuxbrain.com wrote:
 2009/5/21 Risto H. Kurppa ri...@kurppa.fi:
 On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:54 AM, arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de wrote:
 Looks great but PLEASE use /home/root/Maps to store map tiles - share
 with Tangogps... right..?

 NO!
 please, use $HOME/...
 this we're all root! madness has to stop -- and hardcoding paths like
 that is really bad anyway.

 Oops, sorry, you're right :) But anyway I think it'd be great to use
 the same folder that Tangogps uses ($HOME/Maps) - I have some 300 000
 png tiles there, it's just waste of space, bandwith and time to
 download separate files for both - and if/since everyone will symlink,
 why not do it by default..
 Good point, just check in if the direrectory exist if true symlink if
 not create it.


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Re: [GPS] new GPS GUI application for OM freerunner

2009-05-21 Thread mqy

1. Center button is not auto center which waste power -- that's on each
update, 
if the screen distance between new position and previous one greater than
(say 5 pixels),
the position is redrawn. As of auto center, the whole map must be updated,
that's really a waste.

2. Each time you press the Center button, it switch to keep location in
view mode.
In this mode, if you don't pan (drag) map, it keeps the location(position)
in view, else the 
view back layers are not updated.

About the foot: it means tracking. By default on each start the tracking is
not enabled, so 
the image is a foot with x on means tracking is disabled now. If you start
tracking, the 
image is updated to another foot without x sign on it.


William Kenworthy wrote:
 
 On Thu, 2009-05-21 at 08:52 +0200, David Reyes Samblas Martinez wrote:
 Nice app :)
 I know it should be no easy, but a feature that I miss both in Tango
 and this is the ability to rotate the maps accordingly the direction
 
 I am still waiting for gps lock (actually just got it ... in the
 office :), but it looks nice so far.  symlinking the map directory to
 the tangogps store works fine.
 
 One thing that all gps apps I see on the FR so far do is centre the
 cursor/position.  Thats fine when standing still, but I am not really
 interested in where I have been, but where I am going so it would be
 nice if the cursor/centre of the display was offset appropriately.
 
 Can someone tell me:
 what the foot with a red cross through it means - doesnt seem to do
 anything.
 and similarly, the two diagonal opposing arrows next to it.
 
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Re: [GPS] new GPS GUI application for OM freerunner

2009-05-21 Thread mqy

It's the two sides of a coin. It's not a good idea to suppose something that
we are not sure, right?
Let me explain.

1. Think about app A save it's maps to dir_a, app B save it's maps to dir_b,
and c, d... What about when the default one changes it's directory?
2. soft link is the best choice. If you suddenly flashed a new image, and
forgot to backup, the MicroSD partition saves you time and energy. If the Os
can't boot, you can still read/backup data from MicroSD.

I did not suppose user is root at all, even though we are all roots, that's
why I soft link *.py to $HOME/.omgps/, because compiled python binary file
is saved to the directory which contains the source *.py module.


Risto H. Kurppa wrote:
 
 On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 11:54 AM, arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de wrote:
 Looks great but PLEASE use /home/root/Maps to store map tiles - share
 with Tangogps... right..?

 NO!
 please, use $HOME/...
 this we're all root! madness has to stop -- and hardcoding paths like
 that is really bad anyway.
 
 Oops, sorry, you're right :) But anyway I think it'd be great to use
 the same folder that Tangogps uses ($HOME/Maps) - I have some 300 000
 png tiles there, it's just waste of space, bandwith and time to
 download separate files for both - and if/since everyone will symlink,
 why not do it by default..
 
 
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Re: [GPS] new GPS GUI application for OM freerunner

2009-05-21 Thread ivvmm
mqy wrote:
 Hi all:
 
 I got my gta02 freerunner on DEC 2008. 
 After nearly 5 months development, I'm happy to announce the first alpha
 release of omgps.
 
 It is not as feature rich as other GPS applications, such as tangoGPS,
 anyway I think it should satisfy most of 
 the daily needs. Please goto http://code.google.com/p/omgps/, download and
 give a try.
 
 After ten years of programming as a web developer for most of the time, now
 I join the community with my little gift :) Thanks you to open source
 community -- for your great works and spirits. 
 

Your application is definitely good one and worth using it all the time.
But what prevents from using it for now is why is it *so* slow while
dragging the screen or zooming? Well. May be it is not. But in TangoGPS
it just moves the screen, when u drag with a finger and then loads PNG
so it looks like response(somehow). And in omgps I feel like it hangs
for certain amount of time.

Another question. Why did you limit the number of GPX traces? Why just
not to go unlimited?

There is also a repo in TangoGPS called googlesat, which is better than
YahooSat in quality. Can it be added? Or could instructions for adding
it to omgps be posted?

Thank you for improved GPS handling in FreeRunner! Now we have something
to compete with TangoGPS.



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Re: [GPS] new GPS GUI application for OM freerunner

2009-05-21 Thread mqy

First of all, Google map and Google sat are good, but there are distorts and
offsets, at least in my region.
I don't know whether that's due to technical reason or something else.
That's why I the FixMap button in Map Tile menu. As of Google map, only
offset found, but Google stat has distort + offset, that's non-linear thus
can't be fixed at all.

Without good maps, any GPS GUI application becomes nearly useless. As an
author, I have to think about map licenses. The ideal way is to remove any
commercial licensed map configurations from omgps. But to provide you and me
a ease of use application, I finally decided to keep Google map and Yahoo
sat in config file :D 

Here is the config for Google sat:

def GoogleSat():
return min-zoom=1; max-zoom=17; image-ext=jpg

def GoogleSat_url(zoom, x, y):
return http://khm.google.com/kh/v=37hl=enx=; + `x` + y= + `y` +
z= + `zoom` + s=Gali

(1) You append these two functions to $HOME/.omgps/config_01./map.py, make
sure replace leading blanks with a tab latter. 
(2) Then add GoogleSat to map_list()

Please note:
(1) about the parameters v= and hl=, version may changes, you can set hl
as your locale?
(2) the downloads always fail, it may returns a HTML page which contains
clear text redirected URL. I think that's a polite anti-spam way.

-
About tracking (or tracing), I accept your suggestion. I choose limited
in-memory points due to performance reason, but that may be unnecessary at
all or performance can be improved by better algorithm.


About the slow response of zoom/pan: yes, it is slow especially when maps
are layered.
I've taken considerable time to improve the response time, in-memory tile
cache is one of the solution, but I know there are chances to improve it.
I'd like to provide you and me a new version with faster UI response.

Thanks a lot!


ivvmm wrote:
 
 mqy wrote:
 Hi all:
 
 I got my gta02 freerunner on DEC 2008. 
 After nearly 5 months development, I'm happy to announce the first alpha
 release of omgps.
 
 It is not as feature rich as other GPS applications, such as tangoGPS,
 anyway I think it should satisfy most of 
 the daily needs. Please goto http://code.google.com/p/omgps/, download
 and
 give a try.
 
 After ten years of programming as a web developer for most of the time,
 now
 I join the community with my little gift :) Thanks you to open source
 community -- for your great works and spirits. 
 
 
 Your application is definitely good one and worth using it all the time.
 But what prevents from using it for now is why is it *so* slow while
 dragging the screen or zooming? Well. May be it is not. But in TangoGPS
 it just moves the screen, when u drag with a finger and then loads PNG
 so it looks like response(somehow). And in omgps I feel like it hangs
 for certain amount of time.
 
 Another question. Why did you limit the number of GPX traces? Why just
 not to go unlimited?
 
 There is also a repo in TangoGPS called googlesat, which is better than
 YahooSat in quality. Can it be added? Or could instructions for adding
 it to omgps be posted?
 
 Thank you for improved GPS handling in FreeRunner! Now we have something
 to compete with TangoGPS.
 
 
  
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Re: [GPS] new GPS GUI application for OM freerunner

2009-05-20 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
Looks great but PLEASE use /home/root/Maps to store map tiles - share
with Tangogps... right..?


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Re: [GPS] new GPS GUI application for OM freerunner

2009-05-20 Thread Petr Vanek
On Wed, 20 May 2009 12:58:21 -0700
jeremy jozwik jerjoz.for...@gmail.com (JJ) wrote:

got any screen shorts or youtube videos of its operation? im
interested but at work so i cannot test install anything

heya, this is so great, for more that one screenshot only, see here:

http://scap.linuxtogo.org/files/de4071eddbb207fbac1dcae85df9e192.png
http://scap.linuxtogo.org/files/48816f1448fed5851aa8abbd71f7e07d.png
http://scap.linuxtogo.org/files/09a4cd3c509fda53067e87b3c378be88.png
http://scap.linuxtogo.org/files/dfe405a1909c79f003bfe93431583c34.png

supports tracks, multilayered maps, shows gps data... 

@mqy: great job! thank you

Petr


On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 12:53 PM, mqy meng.qing...@gmail.com wrote:


 Hi all:

 I got my gta02 freerunner on DEC 2008.
 After nearly 5 months development, I'm happy to announce the first
 alpha release of omgps.

 It is not as feature rich as other GPS applications, such as
 tangoGPS, anyway I think it should satisfy most of
 the daily needs. Please goto http://code.google.com/p/omgps/,
 download and give a try.

 After ten years of programming as a web developer for most of the
 time, now I join the community with my little gift :) Thanks you to
 open source community -- for your great works and spirits.

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Re: [GPS] new GPS GUI application for OM freerunner

2009-05-20 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
Hi!

Another report, I really much like it! ATM i can't come up with
anything that omgps didn't have that tangogps had and I'd need
- Very glad to see another cool map app written! Built-in u-blox
support is nice, GPX managing, everything. I'm travelling tomorrow so
I'll enjoy testing it there :)


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Re: [GPS] new GPS GUI application for OM freerunner

2009-05-20 Thread mqy

You can do it by soft link. Actually I soft link /home/root/.omgps to a
sdcard partition.
I haven't test the share yet :)


Risto H. Kurppa wrote:
 
 Looks great but PLEASE use /home/root/Maps to store map tiles - share
 with Tangogps... right..?
 
 
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Re: [GPS] new GPS GUI application for OM freerunner

2009-05-20 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 11:59 PM, mqy meng.qing...@gmail.com wrote:

 You can do it by soft link. Actually I soft link /home/root/.omgps to a
 sdcard partition.
 I haven't test the share yet :)

I just symlinked to µSD and it seems to be using tangogps maps OK :)


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Re: [GPS] new GPS GUI application for OM freerunner

2009-05-20 Thread Stefan Monnier
 After nearly 5 months development, I'm happy to announce the first alpha
 release of omgps.

Looks like a great alternative to TangoGPS.  I like the ability to write
on the map and save it as a screenshot.  But I would even prefer a way
to take notes via the microphone and/or the keyboard, automatically
associated with the current GPS position.


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Re: [GPS] new GPS GUI application for OM freerunner

2009-05-20 Thread mqy

Thanks, good suggestion.

More works are needed for integrating with OSM better. Ease of
recording is preferred anyway, which helps post-processing.

I'm thinking about how to collect issues, what about
http://code.google.com/p/omgps/issues/list ?


2009/5/21 Stefan Monnier (via Nabble) ml-user+111823-1033433...@n2.nabble.com:
 After nearly 5 months development, I'm happy to announce the first alpha
 release of omgps.

 Looks like a great alternative to TangoGPS.  I like the ability to write
 on the map and save it as a screenshot.  But I would even prefer a way
 to take notes via the microphone and/or the keyboard, automatically
 associated with the current GPS position.


         Stefan

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