HI all,

I'm just getting started with maemo development, and I'm wondering if there's any easy way to display maps using a python based program. From what I've read, it seems most n900 programs (ecoach, gpxview, map buddy) embed the maep code to display their maps. But these programs are all coded in c, which I've no intention of learning :P Is there any current way to display a maep-type map when using python?

Regards,
Nyall

Depends on your needs, I guess. I made a simple map application that downloads the map tiles from openstreetmap server and draws the map following the user's current location. This approach obviously works in any language - it is just http requests to get the map data. On the OSM site they provide the code to convert from lat/lon & zoom level to tile requests, in several languages, including python.

Let me know if you have use for this code, and I will find the time to post it.

Would also be interested to hear if there is some other, more sophisticated alternative for playing with map displays in python.

hey mikhael - thanks for the reply. I'd be interested in seeing your code, is it available somewhere or part of an app I could dissect yet?

Please find the code attached. Should show a moving map centred on your location.

Requires GPS enabled in the settings, and most likely you need to be outside to get a fix.
Depends on the python-location package.

Map tiles are cached in ~/.mapper. There is no cache management (maximum size or time-to-live).

There's some needlessly fancy threading and Queue management.