Thread: Maemo-Mapper: How return to arbitrary GPS location without Internet?
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GeraldKo is offline GeraldKo
2009-02-22 , 03:51
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#15
Originally Posted by Benson View Post
Shameless plug: wouldn't cyborg seem appropriate for this sort of thing? I used it once or twice for finding my parking place, back when I commuted by car, though I use it more when cycling in unfamiliar parts of town.
Benson, I feel like I clicked on your link and walked onto another planet. (And, by God, there was Qwerty12!) I'm like, "What are these Linux guys saying to one another?"

I had no idea from that thread what cyborg does, so I don't know what drew Qwerty12 or fizze to it (unless they'd heard of cyborg.py); but following the link to cyborg.py, I gather this program periodically tells you something like "You are going northwest 26 degrees at 3 miles per hour"? If that's what it does, why would I want to walk around or go biking and be told this refrain?

I clicked on the .deb (why not?) and installed it, but didn't have any idea what to do next (or exactly what to expect). So I typed
Code:
gpsd-clients
into Xterm at the $ prompt, got told it was an error. And stopped.

So as I sit here, I guess I still don't know what direction I'm going or at what speed. (Though Texrat, RIP, whose location was handbasket/hell, or hell/handbasket, may have a pretty good idea.)