[FOSS-GPS] FoxtrotGPS Mapping Library

[John Gill]

2010/4/25 John Stowers <john.stowers.lists at gmail.com>

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> On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 3:51 PM, Joshua Judson Rosen <rozzin at geekspace.com
> > wrote:
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>> John Stowers <john.stowers.lists at gmail.com> writes:
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>> > I was interested to see the announcement of foxtrotgps.
>> >
>> > I am the author of the mapping library osm-gps-map
>> > ( http://nzjrs.github.com/osm-gps-map/) which I originally developed
>> > from the tangoGPS codebase when I forked it a few years ago
>> > (for many of the same reasons I suspect you did).
>> [...]
>> > I suspect you could recreate the whole of tangoGPS UI/app in less than a
>> few
>> > thousand lines of C, or a few hundred of python. Additionally v0.5.0 is
>> > available in the lucid repositories.
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Re: python version of this.

I wrote johnjohn:  https://launchpad.net/johnjohn  to run on series60 phones
-- it was inspired by maemo-mapper.

I wrote a little series60 emulation layer so it will run on linux with gtk
-- though that needs a little work.

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.

I just got an android, so fear I have to write java now :(

John
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