[FOSS-GPS] Re: Opensatnav project requires help, especially from a coder (or 2).

[John Gill]

Shameless plug time for those with Series 60 phones:

https://launchpad.net/johnjohn

(you also need python on the phone)

Not terribly proud of the code, but it does the job.

I have a crufty simulator for the python series 60 api (uses GTK for the
gui).  Currently, this is just enough code to help debug code before moving
to the phone, but with a bit of work could allow series 60 python apps to
run reasonably on other platforms so long as they have python and gtk (or
another toolkit -- the simulators really aren't much work).

Android and Openmoko both interest me though.

TangoGPS/navit are probably the best bets on openmoko + I think TangoGPS is
currently a better bet than johnjohn (faster for starters, being in C).

Android is trickier, since as you observe, it is not so open.   Currently,
to write apps you're restricted to java, although I have seen talk of
getting python running on the dalvik virtual machine.   If that happens then
johnjohn on Android would be a possibility.

John

2009/2/14 Timo Jyrinki <timo.jyrinki at gmail.com>

> 2009/2/14 Chris Andrew <cjhandrew at gmail.com>:
> > Thanks for your reply.  I wasn't aware of Roadmap.  Unfortunately, it
> > doesn't seem to mention which license it is published under.
>
> http://roadmap.sourceforge.net/ - GPL.
>
> > The other two I have looked at, and it doesn't seem like they are
> > aimed at embedded devices, although look like promising projects.
>
> They are, I am using both of them on my Neo FreeRunner. Navit
> (http://www.navit-project.org/) is more complete navigation software
> while TangoGPS is mostly just a map viewer (and a route tracer). Both
> are ready to install on Openmoko distribution, see
> http://www.opkg.org/package_5.html &
> http://www.opkg.org/package_8.html. Navit would still need more
> performance in map scrolling to be really usable on the FreeRunner,
> but it does include quite proper navigation algorithm, easy-to-use
> finger usable interface (well, still a few quirks to make better) and
> should have also speech support (I haven't tried).
>
> I would say that your best bet would be to join the Navit project and
> enhance that. Of course, competition is good too, so feel free to
> start a new one to show Navit what they should do better :)
>
> -Timo
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