Re: gps navigation project?

2015-08-25 Thread David Rysdam
Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name writes: Is this project going to be a stand alone GPS w/no internet like a garmin or something like google maps on a phone? That will drive some of your design decisions. If it has internet access, will it use mobile wireless or wifi/ethernet? Does it need to be

Re: gps navigation project?

2015-08-25 Thread David Rysdam
Derek Atkins warl...@mit.edu writes: Could you explain your distinction between Routing and Navigation here? I'm not sure I really understand the difference, unless you just mean placing a dot on a map and moving the map as you move (i.e. the UI piece). Routing is I think a fairly

Re: gps navigation project?

2015-08-25 Thread Tom Buskey
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 11:18 AM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote: Derek Atkins, SB '93 MIT EE, SM '95 MIT Media Laboratory Member, MIT Student Information Processing Board (SIPB) URL: http://web.mit.edu/warlord/PP-ASEL-IA N1NWH warl...@mit.edu

Re: gps navigation project?

2015-08-25 Thread Tom Buskey
This could be a neat project. I'd suggest asking some of the sites like makezine.com or instructables. Is this project going to be a stand alone GPS w/no internet like a garmin or something like google maps on a phone? That will drive some of your design decisions. If it has internet access,

Re: gps navigation project?

2015-08-25 Thread Derek Atkins
David, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org writes: I've complained here before about how much I hate pretty much all GPS devices/software. I finally partly-decided to half-heartedly make a feeble stab at doing something about it! There's 3 parts: Maps: OSM is the obvious choice. Routing:

Re: gps navigation project?

2015-08-25 Thread Tom Buskey
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 4:19 PM, Thomas Charron twaf...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting ideas. Sometime you don't want to go north on 93 on Friday. Rt 3 is less congested... Rt 3 being less bad than anything is scary

Re: gps navigation project?

2015-08-25 Thread Tom Buskey
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 3:29 PM, Matt Minuti matt.min...@gmail.com wrote: On Aug 25, 2015 11:25 AM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote: Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name writes: Is this project going to be a stand alone GPS w/no internet like a garmin or something like google maps on a

Re: gps navigation project?

2015-08-25 Thread Bill Ricker
Interesting ideas. 1. There's often an avoid tolls or this route has tolls, but never anything hinting at how much it will cost. A $1 toll is a lot nicer than a $30 one. Great idea. Toll is dependent upon vehicle configuration (and sometimes time of day). I don't recall OSM having that

Re: gps navigation project?

2015-08-25 Thread Thomas Charron
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 4:13 PM, Bill Ricker bill.n1...@gmail.com wrote: Interesting ideas. Sometime you don't want to go north on 93 on Friday. Rt 3 is less congested... Rt 3 being less bad than anything is scary ... Waze uses the real time traffic data in it's trip planning, and

Re: gps navigation project?

2015-08-25 Thread Tyson Sawyer
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 9:13 AM, David Rysdam da...@rysdam.org wrote: Does anyone know of any projects that specifically target (and do a good job on) taking a pile of maps and a GPX file and turning that into a sequence of in 20 miles, turn left-type directions? I'm not sure if it qualifies

Re: gps navigation project?

2015-08-25 Thread Bill Ricker
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 5:54 PM, Tom Buskey t...@buskey.name wrote: I have a wifi only Android. No data when in the car. If I have Wifi, I usually have my computer w/ a bigger screen. ​I have a wifi-only Android but have a 4G accesspoint. Some 'Phone' apps don't think that's good enough.

gps navigation project?

2015-08-25 Thread David Rysdam
I've complained here before about how much I hate pretty much all GPS devices/software. I finally partly-decided to half-heartedly make a feeble stab at doing something about it! There's 3 parts: Maps: OSM is the obvious choice. Routing: There's a bunch of good routers out there, although one

Re: gps navigation project?

2015-08-25 Thread Bill Ricker
On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 4:53 PM, Tyson Sawyer ty...@j3.org wrote: but OsmAnd is probably a useful starting point. I'd call it a starting point ​! It's unclear to me how The application is available in both a free [7] and a paid version [8] which works as a donation to the developer, unlocks