Frederik Ramm <frederik <at> remote.org> writes: > > Hi, > > I'd like to use my netbook to show a moving map. Assuming that I > somehow get gpsd hooked up and delivering position reports[*], what > software can I use?
There has been done some work for turning OpenJUMP into a moving map application. The basic work was done by Edgar Soldin last year and it sort of a tutorial is at http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/jump-pilot/index.php?title=GPS_Plugin The base map can come from any source supported by OpenJUMP: georeferenced rasters images, WMS server, shapefiles or a database. I have used it with a combination of OSM vectors drawn from PostGIS on top of a base map rendered with a local WMS server (Mapserver). Tiles are not supported because OpenJUMP does not support them. Map is very flexible because user can select free set of rasters, WMS layers and vectors for the project and adjust the visibility of each layer. Data does not need to be only OSM data. Or perhaps other way, OSM data must be translated into a raster map or some GIS format first. I have been using osm2pgsql for that. When data is imported with the hstore option I can get what ever OSM data I want on a moving map by creating layers with SQL query. Moving map does not look very good at the moment because base map and GPS location cursor are updated together. However, I have scheduled a little project with Ede so that location cursor could be updated independently from the base map. That would be approximatele one weeks work. OpenJUMP is not at all nice to use on the move because of the user interface which is planned for desktop GIS. I have tried to use it with Windows tablet but most of the icons are muct too small to be usable. But OpenJUMP is GPL and Java so here might be people capable to do further development. -Jukka Rahkonen- _______________________________________________ talk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
