2010/4/25 John Stowers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:john.stowers.lists@gmail.com">john.stowers.lists@gmail.com</a>></span><br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rozzin@geekspace.com" target="_blank">rozzin@geekspace.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>John Stowers <<a href="mailto:john.stowers.lists@gmail.com" target="_blank">john.stowers.lists@gmail.com</a>> writes:<br>
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> I was interested to see the announcement of foxtrotgps.<br>
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> I am the author of the mapping library osm-gps-map<br>
> ( <a href="http://nzjrs.github.com/osm-gps-map/" target="_blank">http://nzjrs.github.com/osm-gps-map/</a>) which I originally developed<br>
> from the tangoGPS codebase when I forked it a few years ago<br>
> (for many of the same reasons I suspect you did).<br>
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<div>> I suspect you could recreate the whole of tangoGPS UI/app in less than a few<br>
> thousand lines of C, or a few hundred of python. Additionally v0.5.0 is<br>
> available in the lucid repositories.<br></div></blockquote></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Re: python version of this.</div><div><br></div><div>I wrote johnjohn: <a href="https://launchpad.net/johnjohn">https://launchpad.net/johnjohn</a> to run on series60 phones -- it was inspired by maemo-mapper. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I wrote a little series60 emulation layer so it will run on linux with gtk -- though that needs a little work.</div><div><br></div><div>You are correct though, that it isn't much code to write a good mapping app in python. Performance is not really an issue -- even on an old nokia 6600 it was ok.</div>
<div><br></div><div>I just got an android, so fear I have to write java now :(</div><div><br></div><div>John</div><div><br></div></div>