Mapper I've been very busy the last 4-5 months, and have only worked on-and-off on Mapper under that time. But now I'm getting back to it. I've been planning on splitting up some of the more common parts, you might have noticed that direct espeak support was removed in git. That is now handled by a dbus service, gdspeak and progress on the GPS information widgets has also been made.
More news when there is some.
Mapper
Mapper is a geographical mapping tool, that can be used to view maps, displaying your position with a GPS device, handle POIs, use OpenStreetMap data for geo information and can create and export GPX tracks. It runs on handhled devices like the Nokia Internet Tablets (770, N800 and N810) as well as on normal Linux desktops.
It downloads maps from map sites (OSM) and caches them localy. Maps can be panned and zoomed. With the help of a GPS devices it can be used for manual navigation (routing is coming soonish), with heading and course indicators. Street and POI information can be imported from OpenStreetMap planet files. With the help of this data the user can search for street and POIs. POIs are also displayed on the map. Also the current locations street name and place is displayed.
News
I've been working on rewriting the GPS information widgets using cairo, and the result is quite nice. Below a screen shot of the satellite positions widget.
I'm also rewriting the compass widget to use cairo and adding some new features to it and preparing a simple Compass app for the N900.
Mapper 1.0.6.8 was uploaded to extras-devel just before midsummer, changelog below:
- Hide building POIs from the map
- Load and cache a larger amount of POIs
- Fixes to POI icons paths as locations of some icons in the osm icon pack has changed
- Parse and display turn information from cloudmade routes
- Minor bug fixes
Unfortunately the quick fix to start panning after some movement, that worked just fine on the desktop, broke the map panning on tablets. A fixed version (1.0.6.9) will be uploaded after some testing.
