Thread: Roadmap-1.1.0h Released
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2008-03-20 , 10:30
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Originally Posted by kernelpanic View Post
Both MaemoMapper and Roadmap import GPX based routes
Really? How do you import a route in Roadmap?

Originally Posted by kernelpanic View Post
Since Roadmap uses vector maps, onboard routing is doable. This is in fact the direction Roadmap is going. It already supports address lookups natively. But support for onboard offline routing is probably not going to be for real until 1.1.0k.(map format is likely to change a bit with the Census Data as it's in shapefile format. So routing will likely wait until the dust settles from that...)
*crosses fingers and tries to be patient*

Originally Posted by kernelpanic View Post
On the bright side, openstreetmaps.org support is coming much sooner.
Roadmap 1.1.0h supports maps built from openstreetmaps.org xml files. 1.1.0i will include the buildmap_osm binary and will be able to download data and build vector maps on the fly for anywhere that openstreetmaps.org has info. This means that users outside the U.S.A. will now be able to use Roadmap!
Sweeeet.


I would image that, given that Roadmap can pinpoint addresses and intersections, given a downloaded route it should be easy to step through it in order to do turn-by-turn navigation.

And assuming the streets are marked out in the vector maps, calculating a new route on-board should be possible (albeit possibly processor-intensive).

Right?