[FOSS-GPS] GPSD, geoclue, and the geolocation service stack

[John Stowers]

On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 3:17 AM, Jay R. Ashworth <jra at baylink.com> wrote:

> ----- "Brian Wilson" <brian at wildsong.biz> wrote:
> > How about a web mapping site that did route planning (even if it's a
> > straight line between source and destination) and selected the tiles
> > touched by the route, then transferred only the tiles you don't have
> > cached to your phone?
>
> Well, in fact, one of our developers on Foxtrot has a script that does
> exactly that: you feed it a route, and it retrieves all the necessary
> tiles,
> with sufficient overlap on the sides to support random sidetrips.
>

the osm-gps-map library also has an API for pre-caching regions and zoom
levels of the map.

John


>
> If I've understood him properly.
>
> Cheers,
> -- jra
>
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