Thread: [Maemo 5] Maemo Mapper
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2010-07-08 , 14:24
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Originally Posted by lardman View Post
It would be possible to implement this without altering Mappero itself and instead just use a local webserver that accepts the destination, etc., and returns the same set of waypoints as expected to come from Google.

In terms of the backend, locally hosted OSM data might be a goer, and there are iirc projects that already use this (does Navit...?) to do offline route calcs.
Navit uses the vector data to begin with, so it's an easy feature to support. The problem with tile-based nav apps like Mappero is that they don't "know" anything about the map. It seems to me that one might as well just switch to an app that uses vector data rather than tack on a whole new nav app-within-an-app and require both types of data to be stored.


Edit: My recent take on this: http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=57698
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