[FOSS-GPS] First impressions of FoxtrotGPS on the Freerunner

[Risto H. Kurppa]

Awesome Sander, first public packages of FoxtrotGPS!

Please forward this to openmoko-community mailing list to share the
packages with people over there, I'm sure they'll be interested!

Would be nice to have these packages referenced at foxtrotgps.org, so
that people ending there having Freerunners in their pockets could try
it without need for compiling.

r


On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 3:04 PM, Sander van Grieken <sander at 3v8.net> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Today I compiled foxtrotgps for the freerunner and did some initial tests, mostly to see
> if foxtrotgps is faster or slower than tangogps.
>
> Overall, it seems to be just as fast (and probably faster in some cases), except when
> dragging the map.
>
> In order to make it a fair comparison I disabled the OSD entirely, because that's the way
> tangogps handles things when map-dragging. When 'slowly' dragging (couple of
> pixels/second) it's just as fast as tangogps, but when dragging 'faster' (i.e. larger
> distances) it stops updating the view, until you stop dragging, or drag slower again. So
> maybe there are some inefficiencies in osm-gps-map when exposing new parts of the
> underlying pixmap to the view.
>
> For those that want to see for themselves, I put the foxtrotgps ipk's and its deps online
> here:
>
> http://www.outrightsolutions.nl/~sander/openmoko/foxtrotgps/
>
> Since it now uses libgps and not fso-gpsd you might run into difficulties actually getting
> live GPS data, but for me that's not a priority right now :)
>
> grtz,
> Sander
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