Re: Navigation board @ Pulster shop

2011-07-18 Thread ml
On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 17:51:33 +0200, Christoph Mair m...@chonyota.net wrote: Am Samstag 18 Juni 2011, 14:51:05 schrieb Daniele Forsi: can someone recommend an USB-i2c interface to use the navigation board externally, for those who don't feel like touching their Freerunner with a soldering iron

Re: Navigation board @ Pulster shop

2011-06-18 Thread Daniele Forsi
2011/6/17 Christoph Pulster wrote: I think the Open Source community is missing to link and interaction between projects. Add-on products like navigation-board can cross the gap, for exaple it is useful for Openmoko, Qi Nanonote and Pandora. indeed can someone recommend an USB-i2c interface

Re: Navigation board @ Pulster shop

2011-06-18 Thread Christoph Mair
Am Samstag 18 Juni 2011, 14:51:05 schrieb Daniele Forsi: 2011/6/17 Christoph Pulster wrote: I think the Open Source community is missing to link and interaction between projects. Add-on products like navigation-board can cross the gap, for exaple it is useful for Openmoko, Qi Nanonote and

Re: freeware != free software??? Re: Navigation

2010-01-06 Thread Stefan Monnier
a) the group free software is nothing but a combination of an adjective and a substantive, the adjective qualifying the substantive That might be the case, but in the context of distributing a piece of software in the context of GNU/Linux, free software refers to the FSF's notion. Any other

freeware != free software??? Re: Navigation

2010-01-05 Thread arne anka
I think you're now confusing free software with freeware. Free software app has to be open source (but not in opposite way - freeware and open source apps not always are free software) huh? since when and who made that decision? for all i know, the line goes between open source and free. open

Re: freeware != free software??? Re: Navigation

2010-01-05 Thread Tom Yates
On Tue, 5 Jan 2010, arne anka wrote: [Sebastian Krzyszkowiak wrote:] I think you're now confusing free software with freeware. Free software app has to be open source (but not in opposite way - freeware and open source apps not always are free software) huh? since when and who made that

Re: freeware != free software??? Re: Navigation

2010-01-05 Thread arne anka
the term free software was coined in or before 1989, when the GPLv1 was published by the free software foundation [1]. a) the group free software is nothing but a combination of an adjective and a substantive, the adjective qualifying the substantive b) qualifying a substantive with free has

Re: freeware != free software??? Re: Navigation

2010-01-05 Thread Viktor Lindberg
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 01:21:50PM +0100, arne anka wrote: the term free software was coined in or before 1989, when the GPLv1 was published by the free software foundation [1]. a) the group free software is nothing but a combination of an adjective and a substantive, the adjective

Re: freeware != free software??? Re: Navigation

2010-01-05 Thread Petr Vanek
/end of arrogant rant about language usage. this is getting too long for me :) just download the relevant packages which this thread started about and read license in there, it might help your understanding :)) cheers Petr ___ Openmoko community

Re: freeware != free software??? Re: Navigation

2010-01-05 Thread Neil Jerram
2010/1/5 Viktor Lindberg l...@leth.yi.org: The Open Source Movement have instead choosen to abandom the ethical principle of freedom and only promote the use of Open Source software that might not be libre (free as in freedom), which is not the same idea as the Free Software movement has.

Re: freeware != free software??? Re: Navigation

2010-01-05 Thread Pieter Colpaert
Since this is a mailinglist about openmoko's «free»runner, I think it's normal to assume everyone on this mailinglist understands the idea behind the free philosophy. On Tue, 2010-01-05 at 16:09 +0100, Viktor Lindberg wrote: On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 01:21:50PM +0100, arne anka wrote: the term

Re: freeware != free software??? Re: Navigation

2010-01-05 Thread Viktor Lindberg
On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 03:39:42PM +, Neil Jerram wrote: 2010/1/5 Viktor Lindberg l...@leth.yi.org: The Open Source Movement have instead choosen to abandom the ethical principle of freedom and only promote the use of Open Source software that might not be libre (free as in freedom),

Re: freeware != free software??? Re: Navigation

2010-01-05 Thread Neil Jerram
2010/1/5 Viktor Lindberg l...@leth.yi.org: I don't wish to be rude but you're not actually contradicting anything i'm saying afaict Actually I think I am a bit. You said Not just open for anyone to examine as is the case with Open Source, which sounds to me like you are saying that people

Re: Navigation

2010-01-04 Thread Yorick Moko
c'mon, you know he meant well I can only applaud new pieces of software for our freerunners, so keep up the good work I personally think it's entirely up to you to release or not release the source files (afterall, you could also make a programme people have to pay for) but it might be

Re: Navigation

2010-01-04 Thread Petr Vanek
hi, If you want to look at progress, here is first version of MC Navi: http://www.mikecrash.com/index.php?name=Newsfile=articleid=116 Currently not for usage, only as preview for Debian users. downloaded the packages on my laptop: van...@vanek:/tmp$ ./osm2mcmap bash: ./osm2mcmap: cannot

Re: Navigation

2010-01-04 Thread Neil Jerram
2010/1/4 Yorick Moko yorickm...@gmail.com: c'mon, you know he meant well Yes indeed. I apologize for raising this issue on Mike's thread; I should have started a new thread and so not have singled out Mike in particular. Best wishes, Neil

Re: Navigation

2010-01-04 Thread Davide Scaini
On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Neil Jerram neiljer...@googlemail.comwrote: 2010/1/4 Yorick Moko yorickm...@gmail.com: c'mon, you know he meant well Yes indeed. I apologize for raising this issue on Mike's thread; I should have started a new thread and so not have singled out Mike in

Re: Navigation

2010-01-04 Thread Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
On 1/4/10, Davide Scaini dsca...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Neil Jerram neiljer...@googlemail.comwrote: 2010/1/4 Yorick Moko yorickm...@gmail.com: c'mon, you know he meant well Yes indeed. I apologize for raising this issue on Mike's thread; I should have started

Re: Navigation

2010-01-03 Thread Mike Crash
Happy new year everyone! If you want to look at progress, here is first version of MC Navi: http://www.mikecrash.com/index.php?name=Newsfile=articleid=116 Currently not for usage, only as preview for Debian users. Mike Crash wrote: Hello everyone, I only want to inform you, that I am

Re: Navigation

2010-01-03 Thread Davide Scaini
On Sun, Jan 3, 2010 at 6:40 PM, Mike Crash m...@mikecrash.com wrote: Happy new year everyone! If you want to look at progress, here is first version of MC Navi: http://www.mikecrash.com/index.php?name=Newsfile=articleid=116 Currently not for usage, only as preview for Debian users. Mike

Re: Navigation

2010-01-03 Thread Neil Jerram
2010/1/3 Mike Crash m...@mikecrash.com: Happy new year everyone! If you want to look at progress, here is first version of MC Navi: http://www.mikecrash.com/index.php?name=Newsfile=articleid=116 This is nice news, but what is it with the sorry, no source code yet thing? Mike, I don't

Re: Navigation

2010-01-03 Thread Mike Crash
This means that it is preview and not releasable yet. I know what it free software - but it is up to author, when he makes releases. And if he makes it at all. This is only to know, that it is not sleeping. So please don't be fidgety - I have spent on this 7 months, every day 2-3 hours, many

Re: Navigation

2010-01-03 Thread Neil Jerram
2010/1/3 Mike Crash m...@mikecrash.com: This means that it is preview and not releasable yet. This makes no sense. How can the binary be releasable, but the source code not? I know what it free software - but it is up to author, when he makes releases. And if he makes it at all. I agree

Re: Navigation

2009-12-15 Thread Mike Crash
This is not a good idea. Rendering such amount of data will take a (long) while, also there si problem where to save it (little memory and slow card), also you need any map angle at any time. And rendering speed is not a big problem, it seems to work fine (or at least satisfactorily). Yorick

Re: Navigation

2009-12-14 Thread Mike Crash
Sure I'm using speed data from OSM and if not available, set it based on way type and common speeds. I can find shortest and fastest path. No detection if road is in the city yet. I made some progress in last days and I'm going to use it for the first time to drive home today :) Bastian Muck

Re: Navigation

2009-12-14 Thread Yorick Moko
might be an idea worth considering: have the possibility to calculate a route, and pre-render the bitmaps of your route (at a few zoom-levels) This way it doesn't have to be done on the fly when you know for example where you are going to travel to when you don't follow the planned route it will

Re: Navigation

2009-12-12 Thread Bastian Muck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Crash schrieb: I use A* for routing, it is usable, but still not what I expect. But I have some improvements in my mind :) I need to create rerouting now and to test it in real life I don't have any idea, how the code looks like, but I

Re: Navigation

2009-12-10 Thread Fox Mulder
Neil Jerram wrote: 2009/12/10 Fox Mulder quakem...@gmx.net: Neil Jerram wrote: 2009/12/9 arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de: not to belittle the effort -- but in what respect will it be different from navit? would it be worth a consideration to use navit's engine, maybe improving it and add a

Re: Navigation

2009-12-10 Thread David Reyes Samblas Martinez
2009/12/10 Fox Mulder quakem...@gmx.net: Neil Jerram wrote: 2009/12/10 Fox Mulder quakem...@gmx.net: Neil Jerram wrote: 2009/12/9 arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de: not to belittle the effort -- but in what respect will it be different  from navit? would it be worth a consideration to use

Re: Navigation

2009-12-10 Thread arne anka
If you already have the vector data you doesn't need the bitmap data anymore because you can render the displayed map directly from these data. That is what navit already does and therefor a combination of vector and bitmap data makes no sense. It would make the data redundant and more

Re: Navigation

2009-12-10 Thread Christophe M
If you already have the vector data you doesn't need the bitmap data anymore because you can render the displayed map directly from these data. That is what navit already does and therefor a combination of vector and bitmap data makes no sense. It would make the data redundant and more

Re: Navigation

2009-12-10 Thread Nicola Mfb
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 11:54 AM, Christophe M meumeu1...@gmail.com wrote: [...] Personnaly I don't find it redundant. - If you use a 2D map, it's easier to draw a bitmap rather than a vector. It consume less cpu so less battery. Due to my experience, I find navit really slower than tangogps

Re: Navigation

2009-12-10 Thread Marcus Bauer
On Thu, 10 Dec 2009 01:03:01 +0100 Fox Mulder quakem...@gmx.net wrote: So if something should be changed, than it should be tangogps and allother apps that uses png files to use a vector format like navit does which is way better for this purpose. Yes, and the earth is flat too ;-) As it was

Re: Navigation

2009-12-10 Thread Bastian Muck
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Mike, which alorithm do you use? A* or just the slow Dijkstra as Navit does? Greetings Bastian Mike Crash schrieb: Hello everyone, I only want to inform you, that I am working on new navigation for the Freerunner, current name is MC Navi,

Re: Navigation

2009-12-10 Thread Mike Crash
I use A* for routing, it is usable, but still not what I expect. But I have some improvements in my mind :) I need to create rerouting now and to test it in real life Someone asked why not to improve navit - this was my first shot. But ... I found it a little complicated, it needs some parts

Re: Navigation

2009-12-09 Thread Patryk Benderz
Dnia 2009-12-09, śro o godzinie 11:02 -0800, Mike Crash pisze: Hello everyone, I only want to inform you, that I am working on new navigation for the Freerunner, current name is MC Navi, but may change. Great! Looks nice :) Right on time to todays CU release. Lets put it to Community section

Re: Navigation

2009-12-09 Thread Steven Le Roux
yeah ! great ! what is the map source used to route ? an osm file ? or do you use a binary-optimised one ? Anyway, so glad you did it in EFL :) On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Patryk Benderz patryk.bend...@esp.plwrote: Dnia 2009-12-09, śro o godzinie 11:02 -0800, Mike Crash pisze: Hello

Re: Navigation

2009-12-09 Thread arne anka
not to belittle the effort -- but in what respect will it be different from navit? would it be worth a consideration to use navit's engine, maybe improving it and add a new efl based interface? ___ Openmoko community mailing list

Re: Navigation

2009-12-09 Thread Risto H. Kurppa
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 10:05 PM, arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de wrote: not to belittle the effort -- but in what respect will it be different  from navit? would it be worth a consideration to use navit's engine, maybe improving it and add a new efl based interface? Looks very nice! I wish

Re: Navigation

2009-12-09 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/12/9 arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de: not to belittle the effort -- but in what respect will it be different  from navit? would it be worth a consideration to use navit's engine, maybe improving it and add a new efl based interface? Good question. For me the frustrating thing about

Re: Navigation

2009-12-09 Thread Fox Mulder
Neil Jerram wrote: 2009/12/9 arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de: not to belittle the effort -- but in what respect will it be different from navit? would it be worth a consideration to use navit's engine, maybe improving it and add a new efl based interface? Good question. For me the

Re: Navigation

2009-12-09 Thread Neil Jerram
2009/12/10 Fox Mulder quakem...@gmx.net: Neil Jerram wrote: 2009/12/9 arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de: not to belittle the effort -- but in what respect will it be different  from navit? would it be worth a consideration to use navit's engine, maybe improving it and add a new efl based

Re: Navigation

2009-12-09 Thread Sebastian Reichel
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 12:19:59AM +, Neil Jerram wrote: 2009/12/10 Fox Mulder quakem...@gmx.net: Neil Jerram wrote: 2009/12/9 arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de: not to belittle the effort -- but in what respect will it be different  from navit? would it be worth a consideration to

Re: Navigation Bar modified notification

2008-08-26 Thread Minh Ha Duong
Hi, I think it's a good idea to have such a link. I suggest deleting community in front of Applications, otherwise there is a repetition. The page is a list, so it may be a good idea to have List of in the page name. And it is not all applications, so try List of selected