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2007-12-06 , 17:56
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Bloomberg News reports (in its entirety, via the San Jose Mercury News):
TomTom, the world's largest maker of car-navigation equipment, will use Google's maps program so customers can send addresses for shops and restaurants to their devices. Users can search for business addresses through the Google Maps site and then send that information wirelessly to a navigation device with a click of a button, the Amsterdam-based company said Wednesday in a statement. Drivers can then view that information on the device's map and save it. TomTom is adding features to stay ahead of rival Garmin.
I hadn't thought about the advantage a device like the N810 Internet Tablet has in this regard, with both Google Maps (or any map site) and the GPS available in the same device.

But I guess a "send this address to the GPS" seems like a useful feature. What would it take for someone to work that up?
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"Send to Car" is a feature already present on the Dash Express 0.9 and in the new Dash Cavalier. It allows Dash owners to log into the MyDash website, search for an address, and upload it via GPRS/WiFi to their GPS in their car. I'm curious to see how much Dash has protected under their Intellectual Property patents.

Those in ITT who participated in the National Road Test (NRT) and the current beta trials for the Cavalier have a much better understanding what else is out there and can be done. I truly hope Dash succeeds... I'm likely to keep the N810 for myself and buy the Dash Cavalier for my wife.
 

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I'm no maemo developer but I think it could be done...

Use the DBUS as the glue to let other applications send a coordinate or address to the mapping software. Once that works then you create a network daemon to listen on a specific port and convert traffic on that port to the appropriate DBUS event.

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OK, that sounds clear enough (what's the emoticon for rolling your eyes to indicate 'but don't press me on that!'? Insert here.)

Where's the quick-artist developer to knock this out then?
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Hm... well, Google Maps web site looks... pretty bad, on tablet's screen. Header takes quite a bit of vertical space, plus the sidebar shows up all the time. As a result the map part is probably 1/4th of the screen size. And no mobile version of maps site (only the java app, and we all know the state of java on tablet...)
 
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Originally Posted by RogerS View Post
OK, that sounds clear enough (what's the emoticon for rolling your eyes to indicate 'but don't press me on that!'? Insert here.)

Where's the quick-artist developer to knock this out then?
Sorry if I sounded flippant, I was just trying to say that the software infrastructure is there. The logical place to add this (IMHO) would be maemo mapper.

It would not be trivial. But possible. Learning to develop in Maemo has been on my "to learn" list for a while. But day job + kiddo = no time. Maybe soon.

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It is pro'ly just a TomTom OV2 POI file that is sent by Google. TomTom at home may then load it on the device as a favorite, and there ya go.

Older TomTom OV2 files can be converted to Wayfinders NCE files and we have already figured out how to load them on Wayfinder. >>http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ad.php?t=11911
Newer TomTom OV2's are backward compatible with TomTom devices but involve a different encryption scheme. Prol'y as a result of this Google dealio.

When these new files are cracked, it will be easy to craft an automagic loader for Wayfinder... if they can be intercepted. (I don't know how Google intends to send them. As an email attachment?)

The same may be done with MaemoMapper but, I don't know how it handles POI's
 
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Learning to develop in Maemo has been on my "to learn" list for a while. But day job + kiddo = no time. Maybe soon.
Statement 1: same

Statement 2: same (2 kiddos)

Statement 3: same
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Maemo Mapper provides the ability to search for POI in your area, and from that you can download a route to whichever POI you choose. It may not be a single click, but it's not more than a few. There's also a DBUS interface for Maemo Mapper, which doesn't have a "send address" function yet, but will soon.

But how to send the address information from the browser to Maemo Mapper is the real problem. djs_tx's suggestion (a network daemon listening for certain network traffic patterns) may sound straightforward, but the kinds of patterns to look for are likely complex and non-constant. Roger's idea is likely impossible without access to the browser's source code.
 
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In the attached zip is a typical TomTom itinerary file as it appears for uploading to a device from the TomTom at home desktop program.

It can be read as a delineated text file.
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