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10-20-2006, 04:40 PM
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FLAC
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Quote: Originally Posted by afterdigital  hoover damn!!!! that sounds pretty promising for linux to be able to install applications directly onto linux (or did i misread that)!!
in the meantime XP will have to do :sigh:
You can install application directly onto linux. You have been able to for years now  . .NET apps on the other hand...
Quote: Originally Posted by kev000 That makes one ugly front-end. yes I suppose you could just arrange everything around to simulate a front-end but that could become problematic because you run into the fundamental problem of: "Linux wasn't created to be used in a car." Neither was windows for that matter so hence the idea spawned: "Let's write a front-end to make it easier for people to use Linux/windows apps in a car." and "lets tie everything together in one simple gui interface."
I'm hoping/wishing that google earth for linux will be able to be usable without the internet. That could solve the GPS app problem.
Don't forget that the applications do not have to have window decorations. If done correctly, you could quilt together some apps pretty fluidly. |
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10-20-2006, 05:52 PM
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FLAC
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: Boston, MA
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Quote: Originally Posted by TheLlama You can install application directly onto linux. You have been able to for years now . .NET apps on the other hand...
Don't forget that the applications do not have to have window decorations. If done correctly, you could quilt together some apps pretty fluidly.
One of the nice suprises I found out about X (or at least KDE, but I'd imagine Gnome). |
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10-21-2006, 09:03 PM
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Low Bitrate
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: ON, Canada
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Quote: Originally Posted by blk gpsdrive is a "navigation" software (currently it only supports raster maps) the mid-/long term support although is clearly to include OpenStreetMap vector data. Some support is already in the codebase (CVS repo). Gpsdrive has speech output via festival.
On Linux, GPSDrive is the way forward. The future looks very bright and it is currently seeing _a_lot_ of active development. |
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10-21-2006, 09:07 PM
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Quote: Originally Posted by kev000 I'm hoping/wishing that google earth for linux will be able to be usable without the internet. That could solve the GPS app problem.
GPSDrive interfaces to Google Earth and is able to download the images for later "playback". IIRC there is a perl script in the contrib directory for retrieving the files from Google. |
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10-22-2006, 10:49 PM
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FLAC
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Quote: Originally Posted by reece146 On Linux, GPSDrive is the way forward. The future looks very bright and it is currently seeing _a_lot_ of active development.
I imagine the big holdback is waiting for hardware drivers for all the devices out there. |
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10-23-2006, 09:41 AM
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Quote: Originally Posted by TheLlama I imagine the big holdback is waiting for hardware drivers for all the devices out there.
Actually, no. GPSDRive is now relying on the most current version of the gpsd daemon for NMEA strings.
Once you off load that jazz, developers can concentrate on other stuff like UI and new data types (vector). |
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10-23-2006, 03:38 PM
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FLAC
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Quote: Originally Posted by reece146 Actually, no. GPSDRive is now relying on the most current version of the gpsd daemon for NMEA strings.
Once you off load that jazz, developers can concentrate on other stuff like UI and new data types (vector).
Does it do a good job of routing in its current state? |
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10-23-2006, 03:43 PM
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Quote: Originally Posted by TheLlama Does it do a good job of routing in its current state?
I don't know as routing is not something that interests me. The progress has been quite good from what I've seen from following the mailing list. |
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10-27-2006, 08:06 AM
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Newbie
Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: Switzerland
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as far as routing is concerned it still needs a lot of progress, but there are some tools that are thought to make it in like grass' v.net which can calculate the shortest route between two points (considering one way streets), there is the possibility of displaying openstreetmap data on top of the raster map, but i wouldn't consider it stable in the sense of fully usable features.
concerning gps device support, gpsd does most units out there. i'm using a SiRFII BU-303 unit which works well in binary (prefered), aswell as in NMEA mode. |
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12-19-2006, 06:22 AM
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Join Date: May 2002
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to all those thinking of using google * data, read the fine print, it's viciously forbidden to use that way
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