AMP v1.0 Worklog - Page 39

Bugbyte · 09-19-2006, 10:56 PM

Just tossing out ideas, but how about a little info on that GPS screen so you can figure out what's what?

Something along the lines of the display below, but with it transparent so you can see the map underneath it, maybe with a clock on it.

You could enter the distance and AMP could do an estimate of the ETA.

A little graph with the altitude for the last 30 minutes might be cool.

What would be really neat is if you could enter how long you wanted the trip to take (say 400 miles in 5-1/2 hours) and AMP would tell you how fast you had to drive in order to stay on track.

Sort of: "Drive 60 mph for 15:45 seconds, or 65 mph for 13:22 seconds, or 70 mph for 11:38 seconds"

Anyhow, just some ideas.

aychamo · 09-19-2006, 11:20 PM

Bugbyte, since you are familiar with this software. I have a question for you. Should I have AMP launch GPS2GE, GE, or both? GPS2GE makes you click on "start", then it has a launch button. So if I launch GE, it would be worthless in car without GPS2GE running. But it would be pretty lame to have them click "Start GE" from within GP2SGE. What do you think?

BTW, great ideas above

Sharkbite86 · 09-20-2006, 03:37 AM

Quote: Originally Posted by aychamo

Bugbyte, since you are familiar with this software. I have a question for you. Should I have AMP launch GPS2GE, GE, or both? GPS2GE makes you click on "start", then it has a launch button. So if I launch GE, it would be worthless in car without GPS2GE running. But it would be pretty lame to have them click "Start GE" from within GP2SGE. What do you think?

BTW, great ideas above

Cant you just "borrow" the code from GPS2GE and implement it directly into AMP? How hard would that be? It just seems a bit out of the way and clumsy to open another app...

aychamo · 09-20-2006, 07:20 AM

Do you know where the source to GPS2GE is?

Bugbyte · 09-20-2006, 09:20 AM

Yeah, I think having AMP generate the kml output is the way to go, but it requires you to code it into AMP. I did this with an applescript app awhile back but never perfected parsing the GPS NMEA string. With GPSDX, you don't have to do that any more.

ZapWizard and I did some work on this. He got the ball rolling with this thread.

All AMP has to do is output an XML file that looks like this:

Code:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<kml xmlns="http://earth.google.com/kml/2.0">
<Placemark>
  <name>You are here</name>
  <LookAt>
    <longitude>-97.71000561814689</longitude>
    <latitude>30.42429421692663</latitude>
    <range>278.0278314144478</range>
    <tilt>-9.659668009047623e-012</tilt>
    <heading>0.01848385803939365</heading>
  </LookAt>
  <styleUrl>root://styles#default</styleUrl>
  <Point>
    <coordinates>-97.70987727305658,30.42409456391263,0</coordinates>
  </Point>
</Placemark>
</kml>

You can set a couple of other options like icon, but that's it.

I'd say that if you code that file generation activity into AMP, then you can put a NAV button in AMP that would launch GE, then begin generating the kml file. That avoids the necessity to have GPS2GE in between all the apps.

The GPS2GE app is written by a member here - Ravidavi. I'm sure he'd be willing to help out. He lists his email as ravidavi at mail dot utexas dot edu in the read me file. He wrote about this app in this post.

Bugbyte · 09-20-2006, 09:24 AM

Newsflash: Go to: https://webspace.utexas.edu/rm2636/www/GPStoGE.zip and download.

Open gps2kml.cpp in Xcode. He included the source so you can muck with it.

Qbancash · 09-20-2006, 10:44 AM

I just jumped into this app and so far I will have to assume this is about the farthest we have gotten to a nice looking front end that works... I'm really proud of all the work aychamo and the rest are putting to get this working...

Now I would like to know... How can I delete the movies playlist or reload it? I have it double and I would like to reimport it once only...
Any help will be appreciated...

Thanks,
::JP

pepsibobby · 09-20-2006, 12:59 PM

just reimport the music / video from the pref page.

Qbancash · 09-20-2006, 01:07 PM

i will try that however, will that get rid of the current MOVIES playlist and replace with a new folder I'm importing....? thanks otherwise I might have triple....

aychamo · 09-20-2006, 03:28 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by Qbancash

i will try that however, will that get rid of the current MOVIES playlist and replace with a new folder I'm importing....? thanks otherwise I might have triple....

AMP rebuilds the database from scratch each time it imports. So the movies list will represent whatever your system currently has on it.

aychamo · 09-20-2006, 04:33 PM

Hey guys

Just a quick kinda preview thing. This is a "functional mockup". The buttons work, but the text doesn't. Now, understand that this shows two different screens at once. It's not meant to do that!

The arrow will be what switches you between the condensed version (on the right hand side of the screen) and the more verbose version (in the middle, on the bottom.) So you'll only have one of these two boxes on your screen at once. Once is meant for just cruising, so you can enjoy your GPS eye candy, and the other is a bit more functional.

It looks odd, on the right, not being centered, but I had to move it more down, otherwise it gets in the way of GE's zoom controls.

The light is internet access (so, it's useful if you have the wardriver on), the lighting bolt is for the quick menu, music is for the quick music floater screen, arrow is to expand/contract between the menus, and X exits the GPS menu.

I'm not a graphics artist! I know these icons are ugly, please feel free to make some that fit nicely and convey the right message

Remember that these boxes will not be on the screen at the same time, just one at a time.

And, of course, I want your input and tell me what you like/don't like!

Bugbyte · 09-20-2006, 05:54 PM

Looks like fun! I'd suggest saving the screen space by removing the SW @ 180 heading info because the compass in the upper right gives you that already (maybe not heading, but direction, at least) I think altitude would be more interesting.

pepsibobby · 09-20-2006, 06:17 PM

im so excited, i should go and buy a GPS just in casae.

aychamo · 09-20-2006, 06:42 PM

Quote: Originally Posted by pepsibobby

im so excited, i should go and buy a GPS just in casae.

You should man

I use the following unit, and it works PERFECTLY fine:

http://store.mp3car.com/SearchResults.asp?Cat=48

GPS is, in essence, pretty much already in AMP. Doing the GPS part is going to be a big learning experience for me. So AMP will evolve through stages of GPS implementation (ie, Stage 1, Stage 2, etc) as I become more and more familiar with GPS and what we can do with it, and what info I can extract and manipulate.

With what I have now, I can really already eliminate the need to load GPS2GE. But the user will need to install gpsd. Which they should do anyway

Anyway, .. go ahead and get a unit man! I wish I could get some commission lol!

Aychamo

pepsibobby · 09-20-2006, 07:17 PM

well i think that if we could get rid of GE entirely i would be more inclined to get one. I like that we can do turn by turn, but once we can do door to door directions with out GE i wont be completely satisfied.

but good start my friend, i will start work on images.

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