Thread: [Announce] modRana: a flexible GPS navigation system
View Single Post
MartinK is offline MartinK
2014-03-11 , 23:38
Posts: 1,548 | Thanked: 7,510 times | Joined on Apr 2010 @ Czech Republic
#1564
Originally Posted by tigre-bleu View Post
I would not recommand to use google API. Instead there are several other API using openstreetmap. For instance it is possible to use Open Mapquest:

http://developer.mapquest.com/web/products/open

Especially XAPI: http://open.mapquestapi.com/xapi/
I've been doing a little survey and I think I would use the Overpass API. It is basically a much more powerful & flexible XAPI.

It should also make implementing the current local search features easier - searches like "food" could be implemented like get nodes corresponding to any of a set of food-related amenities.

Stuff like this seems like it would be rather difficult to do with XAPI alone.

Originally Posted by petur View Post
I wouldn't mind the choice or even combination of such searches (combination would give dupes), Google is pretty good at finding places even if nobody entered them on a map - it scrapes the location from the webpages.
Sure, it should be possible to use different backends and to either switch between them or search in all of them at once, but I need to start with one backend and make it work at all first. Of course, patches adding more providers are definitely welcome.

Originally Posted by handaxe View Post
Modrana v0.45.4 latest: night theme corrupts map display. Others do not.
Strange, I'm not getting this on my N900 - could you start modRana from terminal and post the output here ?
__________________
modRana: a flexible GPS navigation system
Mieru: a flexible manga and comic book reader
Universal Components - a solution for native looking yet component set independent QML appliactions (QtQuick Controls 2 & Silica supported as backends)
Last edited by MartinK; 2014-03-11 at 23:43.
 

The Following 7 Users Say Thank You to MartinK For This Useful Post: