[FOSS-GPS] FoxtrotGPS Mapping Library

[Joseph Reeves]

Hi Brent,

>I'd love to see support for world file image tilesets, as used behind web mapping applications such as Mapserver; shapefiles, >spatial databases like PostGIS & SpatialLite from a GPS application.

I don't know if you've seen it, but there's an unofficial version of
gvSIG mobile that is getting close to this wish list:

http://gvsigmobileonopenmoko.wordpress.com/

Cheers, Joseph



On 21 April 2010 05:42,  <pcreso at pcreso.com> wrote:
> My 02c :-)
>
> As a long time FOSS GIS user (who used to work with pre-satellite fixes, then transit data, & at last, real GPS data!!), one thing I miss with most GPS software is the ability to natively utilise standard GIS data formats.
>
> Traditionally, GPS units have not been too concerned with background raster or vector data, just with their track, marker & waypoint data.
>
> Obviously this has changed markedly in recent years, with land & marine navigation systems & chart plotters largely supplanting basic GPS.
>
> I can gather free topo, depth & road data, build my own maps with FOSS tools like GRASS, R & GMT. Build my own shapefiles & geotiffs, manange my data in PostGIS or SpatialLite, etc. But having done all the hard GIS work, none of the products (such as geotiffs, or png/world file combinations) can easily be used with a GPS software tool.
>
> At least not one I've looked at...
>
> I'd love to see support for world file image tilesets, as used behind web mapping applications such as Mapserver; shapefiles, spatial databases like PostGIS & SpatialLite from a GPS application.
>
> Generally just better integration/interoperability between the FOSS GIS & FOSS GPS arenas.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>  Brent Wood
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