TangoGPS and Locations maps

2008-08-26 Thread julien cubizolles
Would it be possible for TangGPS and Locations to share osm maps ? If not, where does Locations store its (I'd like to backup them in case of flashing) ___ Openmoko community mailing list community@lists.openmoko.org

Re: TangoGPS and Locations maps

2008-08-26 Thread Michele Renda
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The maps used by locations, are vectioral maps? Thank you Michele Renda robin paulson wrote: julien cubizolles wrote: Would it be possible for TangGPS and Locations to share osm maps ? If not, where does Locations store its (I'd like to backup

Re: TangoGPS and Locations maps

2008-08-26 Thread Nishit Dave
On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 5:00 PM, Michele Renda [EMAIL PROTECTED]wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The maps used by locations, are vectioral maps? Thank you Michele Renda robin paulson wrote: julien cubizolles wrote: Would it be possible for TangGPS and Locations to

Re: TangoGPS and Locations maps

2008-08-26 Thread julien cubizolles
Le mardi 26 août 2008 à 13:30 +0200, Michele Renda a écrit : The maps used by locations, are vectioral maps? from what i can tell, locations stores the maps in it's own format, which is not compatible with tango, which directly uses the png files supplied by osm: I don't think so :

Re: TangoGPS and Locations maps

2008-08-26 Thread Michele Renda
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 1. There is not standard for offiline map archiving, so why be surprised if some open programs use a their format to archive data? The important is that the way how they archive the maps is full open and fully documented. 2. Google maps are not

Re: TangoGPS and Locations maps

2008-08-26 Thread arne anka
I don't think so : did you compare the files? i gather the naming derives from the gps location data, thus the file names for the same areas should be the same regardless of the format being different. similar names are not sufficient, as said above -- compare the files (identify -verbose

Re: TangoGPS and Locations maps

2008-08-26 Thread Jelle De Loecker
Sorry for crashing this discussion, but could you clarify why there would be a difference between a png saved by tangogps and locations? If they both use the exact same areas, the exact same name, and they both save it as a png then it *should* be compatible. Anything else seems way too crazy,

Re: TangoGPS and Locations maps

2008-08-26 Thread arne anka
Sorry for crashing this discussion, but could you clarify why there would be a difference between a png saved by tangogps and locations? i wouldn't know -- i don't use locations. but why shouldn't there be _no_ difference? If they both use the exact same areas, the exact same name, and they

RE: TangoGPS and Locations maps

2008-08-26 Thread Crane, Matthew
Png's have metadata, but not sure if it's used by the apps. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jelle De Loecker Sent: Tuesday, August 26, 2008 9:44 AM To: List for Openmoko community discussion Subject: Re: TangoGPS and Locations maps

Re: TangoGPS and Locations maps

2008-08-26 Thread Alexey Kurochkin
On Tue, 2008-08-26 at 15:44 +0200, Jelle De Loecker wrote: Sorry for crashing this discussion, but could you clarify why there would be a difference between a png saved by tangogps and locations? If they both use the exact same areas, the exact same name, and they both save it as a png

Re: TangoGPS and Locations maps

2008-08-26 Thread julien cubizolles
Le mardi 26 août 2008 à 15:24 +0200, arne anka a écrit : I don't think so : did you compare the files? i gather the naming derives from the gps location data, thus the file names for the same areas should be the same regardless of the format being different. similar names are not