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Re: [Announce] modRana: a flexible GPS navigation system

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Originally Posted by vi_ (Post 1349151)

Heh, I remember printing my bachelors thesis. The uni colour printers cost 30p/sheet. So a 70 page document was going to cost £21 per copy! And they wanted 2 copies!!!

BS I thought. Fortunately the uni printers where set up in such a way that your print job got sent to a central server, the monies deducted from your account then the job was sent to the printer.

After a bit of fiddling I figured out the IP address of the printer. I would then print my document to a file. Then I would use the LPR command from CMD and just send the print job strait to the printer.

Boom!

Free printing!

Interesting ! :D Well, the thesis had exactly 100 pages in the end and printing it (in a local book & office supplies store) was indeed a bit costly - but hey, how often do you print a thesis anyway ? :)

So, the thesis was successfully printed & handed in on time but I the meantime I was a bit more busy than expected, so I have not yet been able to make some releasable modRana improvements.

However, I'm now preparing for my masters exams on the 25th of June ( wishes of good luck are welcome :) ) and I'm really looking forward to getting back to modRana after that. :)

BTW, thanks a lot for all the bugreports - I'm aware of them and they will by my main priority once I'm "back". :)

Re: [Announce] modRana: a flexible GPS navigation system

Go break a leg! (NB. I hope you are aware of best-wishes traditions of British theatre....)

Re: [Announce] modRana: a flexible GPS navigation system

Go break a leg ! :o :o :o best wishes martink:)

Re: [Announce] modRana: a flexible GPS navigation system

Knocking on wood.
Best wishes.

Re: [Announce] modRana: a flexible GPS navigation system

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Originally Posted by MartinK (Post 1336068)

Any idea if they provide some anonymous interface (so that modRana doesn't have to handle Foursquare login credentials) ?

Yes it seems, though the client has to be registered.

On not requiring to log in: https://developer.foursquare.com/overview/auth#userless
Search API: https://developer.foursquare.com/docs/venues/search

Re: [Announce] modRana: a flexible GPS navigation system

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Originally Posted by MartinK (Post 1335668)

In other news, I had some success with the Kothic realtime vector map renderer - looks it takes the coordinates as longitude, latitude - which is reversed to the usual format. So I was not getting anything displayed, because I had data for a part of Czech Republic, but was looking on the middle of some middle eastern dessert instead. :)

That does not mean there will be Kothic vector map rendering support in modRana right away, but it is definitely getting closer. :)

So, what about this vector map renderer?
Best wishes.

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Thanks a lot to everyone for your support! :)

I've successfully defended my thesis and also passed successfully the masters exam, finishing the Applied Informatics masters study program on the Faculty of Informatics of the Masaryk University in Brno. :)

BTW, my thesis is available if full from the official thesis page, but it is completely in Czech. :)

I made some quite extensive tables comparing most of the current mobile platforms for the thesis, so I'm thinking of putting those tables to some publicly editable wiki (like the Maemo one) and maintaining theme there. Also some articles based on material from the thesis might show up in the future. :)

tl;dr:
I now have a Mgr. title and can get back to modRana development. :)

I'll first go through the bugreports, add them to the Github issue tracker (BTW, the issue tracker on modrana.org is still fully functional, but quite PITA to use because of the antispam measures added due to TRAC targeting spambots) and start at fixing them. I'll also have to get local packaging for Harmattan set up - I've been using the MeeGo COBS for that, but you might have noticed that it got recently shut down.

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Originally Posted by Wikiwide (Post 1353330)

So, what about this vector map renderer?
Best wishes.

I see that as the main big feature for this summer, like offline routing was last year. Certainly won't be easy, but preliminary research shows it should be doable. :)

The currently planed "design" looks like this:

OpenStreetMap data, preferably in PBF as that is very fast to parse, is converted to a format suitable for rendering
this format would be basically like the current sqlite tile database, but instead of an image each tile would hold geometry covering the given tile
Kothic already supports this, but without sqlite - just A LOT of plaintext files. :)
the Kothic renderer will get geometry from the sqlite db and draw it to bitmap tiles
Kothic draws the maps based on a MapCSS style sheet - so one OSM data set can be used to render different map layer styles (day/night/car or pedestrian optimized). Or the data can be filtered to suit a particular style, making the data set much smaller.
these tiles would be displayed as usual and should work out of the box with both GTK and QML GUIs
Or even making modRana act as a tileserver - but first things first, it will be a long road. :)

Re: [Announce] modRana: a flexible GPS navigation system

Congratulations Mgr. MartinK. :)