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Originally Posted by janszoon
(Post 873750)
I'll give it some thought.....started to put something together......might be some 'nice to haves' but I think the basics deliver a lot already..
:)
But in the maybe pile: - Speed indicator (knots)
- Moon phase (info screen or search)
- Tides (info screen or search)
- Weather (info screen or search)
- Distance (point to point)
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OK, everything ticketed :)
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Originally Posted by janszoon
(Post 873750)
[*]'Spot x' button takes you immediately to new POI based on GPS location (Rather than Menu >> POI >> New >> Based on position. A one click POI :-)
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I've been thinking about adding a 'go to' button to the main menu, which would basically do this/other things like:
- go to->coordinates->enter coordinates
- go to->POI->select poi
etc.
+ clickable "go to" widget.
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Originally Posted by janszoon
(Post 873750)
[*]POI alert/sound (as hands might be other things, an alarm of approaching POI or eSPeak ;-) eg POI near Fishing spot 1[/LIST]
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Originally Posted by Pigro
(Post 874851)
As RR is really just a collection of POI's with a proximity algorithm and an interface to alert the user when he gets within 'x' Km's of any individual POI, I wondered whether it would be possible to build this into a future modRana release?
It would be nice to have a prominent icon displayed on screen and/or an espeak prompt warning of any speed cam's on the upcoming stretch of road. Would take modRana one step closer to emulating a dedicated in-car navigation system. Thoughts?
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There is already
a ticket for this:
Code:
* activate from POI -> tools menu
* set:
* distance
* espeak message (recorded sound ?)
* repetition -> once/twice/every N seconds while in perimeter
* optional -> a message for leaving the perimeter
* optinal -> say the current distance as part of the message
* multiple distance/message pairs for a POI
* possible uses:
* speed cameras
* fishing spots
* reminders ("you are near the supermarket, don't forget to buy X")
* geocaching/treasure hunting
Any ideas what else it should do ? :)
The GUI mockup looks good! :) BTW, is there some marine related reason for all the white color ? :)
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Originally Posted by 白い熊
(Post 873814)
This is great, however please note that the language of streetnames can vary from the directions language. You're probably aware of it, but for instance in the Moscow case, I'd not want the instructions in Russian, and might prefer them in English, but the streetnames are in Russian, so should be pronounced in Russian...
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This is a known issue (Czech street names pronounced with English pronunciation sound
silly, trust me :) ), the driving directions that are provided by Google are just html formated strings and the street names are not delimited in any (parsable) way. But it might be possible to do the future, with some other routing service that provides more granular directions, preferably with street names that have language codes :)
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Originally Posted by jkq
(Post 874512)
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Thanks for the pointer! Should be quite simple to integrate :)
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Originally Posted by jkq
(Post 874512)
On an unrelated note, I'm anxiously awaiting an offline routing mode. :)
-jkq
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Well, Woody is currently cooking a on-device tileserver, so I would say that things are moving in the right direction :)
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Originally Posted by handaxe
(Post 874548)
Something that free hiking and boating have in common besides the above needs is "free navigation" ie. not constrained by road or other vectors, simply a heading / distance display from current position to a POI (also known in most handheld GPS receivers as a waypoint). A question in another thread brought the fact that the n900 really has no hiking GPS app ala a garmin or some such handheld.
PS Apparently Advanced Geocaching Tool has direction and distance.
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I can see a few ways of representing this:
- big fullscreen arrow and distance (like in AGTL)
- a widget version with small arrow and distance, placeable on the map screen (I really have to finally rewamp the widgets to a usable state :D )
- an arrow pointing from the current position indicator (TangoGPS does it like this)
- just drawing a long line from current position to a given point
- or maybe drawing your own route on the map (might be also useful to send to others) ?
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Originally Posted by janszoon
(Post 874682)
Cool thanks. I like the Mappero approach which controls screen blank via a number of states and conditions. eg unblank screen if:
Full screen and moving
Moving
Receiving GPS data
never
Always
cheers
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OK, I guess I can also do this like this once the basic screen blanking control is in place :)
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Originally Posted by Pigro
(Post 874851)
I installed roadrunner (speed camera proximity detector) and tried to run it alongside modRana yesterday. They didn't appear to coexist well - both apps remained running but modRana wasn't redrawing the map with current location. I didn't have time to check closely but I suspect RR possibly wasn't updating GPS co-ord's correctly either.
I had assumed that multiple app's would be able to concurrently access the GPS without interfering - apparently not, unless I did something wrong during the test.
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This is indeed strange as both modRana and RR (most probably, did't look to the RR source yet) use Liblocation, which should is provided especially to enable concurrent GPS access.
What was the position indicator in modRana doing ? Stuck in place or rotating or something else ?
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Originally Posted by woody14619
(Post 875566)
So your'e saying you need testers? :)
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Basically, yes :)
For start, some samples of the actual SMS Google is sending would suffice + a check if they all come from some special number :)
But once I have something that might work, a US based tester would be needed :)
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Originally Posted by woody14619
(Post 875566)
I have scripts for pulling the Cloudmade stuff already for postgres. I'm sure I can adapt it. :)
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Any chance the same dataset could be also used for routing (in the future) ? Like for example, by
pgRouting, that claims to provide routing for postgres ? :)
