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

[Jay R. Ashworth]

----- "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.

If I've understood him properly.

Cheers,
-- jra

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