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asys3	2008-04-06 , 17:59
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Originally Posted by Master of Gizmo

Hi,

what a coincidence, i have also just written my first geocaching related software. It's a geocaching.com gpx file viewer. See here

It's still under development and currently still lacks some features. While you can already view all the important stuff from the gpx, e.g. the reference bearing and distance is calculated from is fixed. Maemo really eases the development of such stuff as it comes with libgtkhtml and libxml and thus even allows to embed rendered html cache descriptions.

This is written in C with maemo-mapper in mind and i plan to either include this into maemo-mapper so the caches are marked on the map. I am also trying to get this combined with navit and its ability to read garmin maps and hopefully this can be combined with e.g. topographic garmin maps.

Regards,
MoG

That's great!
It works for me out of the box with a sample gpx-file.
I am not a premium member - but now I think of it !

As a geocacher I would really like to see those funtions like mCacher and gpxviewer ( with gifs, please ;-) to be integrated.

Another little shell program I developed is a script which
can show you a new waypoint caclculated from a given coordinate
and a distance.
That would be nice, too ;-.)

Here's the program:
www.linuxvision.de/dist/dist

or if someone is interested in the C-Source:
www.linuxvision.de/dist/distance.c

---------
>chmod +x dist
>./dist
Please enter latitude, longitude
and degree and distance of new POI:
lat, lon => deg, dist
e.g.: for N 52.818717, E 9.81875 and 90 degree, 67000 metres:
distance 52.818717 9.81875 90 67000
---------
(call with no parameters to geht the help page)

Hope that at some time all these features come to maemo mapper
or are connected via a DBUS connection...

Regards,
asys3

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