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Love your program but...
by The Fool - Dec 17th 2005 19:48:50
I have tried a lot of different GPS programs for the palm, windows and OS X
but this is the best program I have encountered. I love the fact that you
can simulate even when you don't have a GPS plugged in.
I plan on integrating this program with my car computer but I have one
problem with it, I hate the way I have to obtain map, I have to click on a
location and get a map for it, and because sometimes I want a zoomed out
view and sometimes I want a street by street view I have to get it at
different resolutions, you made this fairly easy, but it is still a
horribly tedious and time consuming task.
I drive all over south florida and I want to get the maps for the whole
area and, after spending about an hour downloading maps just for my local
area I have to ask if there is a better way that I am somehow missing.
Is it possible to somehow download in bulk? For instance is there a way to
get all the maps of such and such a resolution for everything in a 75 mile
radius of Fort. Lauderdale Florida, and then more detailed maps for
everything within a 40 mile radius etc?
If anyone knows how I could do this please please leave a post email me or
something I love this program but I just don't have the time to get all the
maps I need one at a time...
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Re: Love your program but...
by JoergOstertag - Jan 8th 2006 11:43:25
Sorry for letting you wait so long for an answer; but i
dont check this forum regularly. So it sometimes takes
some time until I see requests here.
Better you
subscribe to the gpsdrive mailinglist by sending a mail
to
majordomo@warbase.selwerd.nl with the
subject/body "subscribe gpsdrive".
> I plan on integrating this program with
> my car computer but I have one problem
> with it,
Great; tell us if you encounter any progress. I'm really
curious to see pictures and descriptions as soon as you
make any progress.
> I hate the way I have to obtain
> map, I have to click on a location and
> get a map for it, and because sometimes
Did you already try gpsfetchmap.pl to download more
than one map at a time?
> Is it possible to somehow download in
> bulk? For instance is there a way to get
> all the maps of such and such a
> resolution for everything in a 75 mile
> radius of Fort. Lauderdale Florida, and
> then more detailed maps for everything
> within a 40 mile radius etc?
(Speaking of the current CVS Version, which also can be
found at http://www.ostertag.name/gpsdrive)
Set gpsdrive to no-SQL. Set a waypoint at your current
location; lets say you name it MyHome. Then (at the
commandline) start
gpsfetchmap.pl -w MyHome -a 100
gpsfetchmap.pl -w MyHome -a 5 --scale 3000
These two commands would download Maps from your
area in different scales.
I hope this helps.
Joerg
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Cannot align maps
by Nick Andrew - Oct 1st 2005 08:27:06
Unlike other gps software for linux, this one mostly
works. However starting and stopping gpsd from
within gpsdrive does not work, because gpsdrive
calls gpsd with an apparently obsolete set of
options.
There seems to be some confusion about whether
this project is being actively maintained. The CVS
server contains v2.10pre3 which is just a little more
recent than the debian sarge package, but the
bugzilla mentions a 3.0 alpha version.
I recompiled gpsdrive from scratch. No real
problems there.
The program gets data from gpsd fine so long as
gpsd was started before starting gpsdrive.
The map import is confusing. It is unclear what units
"scale" refers to on import. The automated download
of maps from expedia resulted in maps configured
with entirely the wrong scale, which produced some
interesting (read: totally bogus) results when
viewing at various resolutions.
The fixed 1280x1024 map size is very
inconvenient, particularly as the whole map cannot
fit on most peoples' screens.
I have some maps which I created by downloading
online street directory maps and stitching them
together. These maps are referenced by
latitude/longitude (i.e. I know the centre
co-ordinates precisely) but the gpsdrive method of
applying a co-ordinate to an imported map file by
specifying two waypoints resulted in a map which
was misaligned by about 50 metres, with no
obvious way to correct this. I reset the centre
co-ordinates in the map_koord file but changing the
scale parameter also in that file showed that it was
not possible to reconcile my known current position
with the waypoint at that co-ordinate in the image.
Consequently the software promises, but does not
deliver on actually viewing an accurate street-level
map.
Improvements required for gpsdrive to be actually
useful would be some way to scroll the map display
(up/down and left/right), smaller or user-defined
map tiles, automatic merging of map tiles at different
resolutions (e.g. on the same display, show detailed
map images where the tiles exist, and show a
scaled up part of a higher scale map where detailed
map tiles do not exist.
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Re: Cannot align maps
by JoergOstertag - Nov 9th 2005 09:10:20
Can you please the problems you encounter to the
gpsdrive mailing list.
This way we can more easily track them.
OK Best would be to add them to the Bugzilla too.
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Idea's
by lilphil - Mar 13th 2005 08:29:26
I've just stumbled accross this project and it looks great. I'm thinking
about buying a gps to go with it now!
Couple of ideas - I wonder if it would be possible to integrate the data
from http://www.jibble.org/ukpostcodes/ to search by postcode, or add
waypoints by postcode.
Also, database abstraction would be nice, so the database doesnt
necessarily have to be mysql :)
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GPS Vehicle Tracking
by Tom - Nov 27th 2004 07:56:52
Will there be any plans to have GPS drive track one another through a
mobile phone?
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offset in topo/street maps
by mutax - Jul 30th 2004 05:40:02
Hi,
I renamed all my old maps from mapblast to top_blah and changed the
map_koords file according to that.
Then I downloaded new maps from expedia.
Now when I switch Topo/Street all waypoints on the topomaps have an offset
of some meters, although they have been created using these maps once
(before the renaming from map_ to top_)
My question: Why does this happen?
I have not changed any coordinates in the map_ccords file. I just replaced
the filename...
What can I do to correct this?
bye,
Florian
btw. expedia somehow sucks... They call one half of the cities english
names the other half german names. A nice mix :(
[ I didn't knew Brunswick is Braunschweig...]
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Feature request/Great App
by jethroboingo - Dec 17th 2003 11:30:02
Fritz, would custom waypoint type/icons be possible.
I love this software and the waypoint types already present by defualt.
Would it be feasbile to make your own waypoint types?
btw good work. love the program
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GPSDrive New User
by Stevhawking - May 6th 2003 03:22:51
Nice to really know that this software exists.I have a Garmin GPS device ,
I want it to connect it with GPSDrive on a PDA kind of device which uses
Linux(Redhat 7.x) as an OS. But the problem is the PDA kind of device
doesn't come with a serial port it has a USB port on to which I have to
connect the GPS , so I somehow managed to get the USB to serial port
adapter. There is this Driver problem for accessing the USB port.How do I
acheive the GPS communication with GPSDRIVE on this PDA kind-of device. PLZ
kindly help me in this matter. thanks in advance.
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Feature Requests
by Eyecannon - Oct 2nd 2002 05:31:52
Hi, I find this program invaluable for wardriving. It is quite excellent,
but would benefit from the following features:
1) Ability to import more than one track into the display, as
concatinating them creates long diagonal "fake" lines to connect
disparate beginning and ending points.
2) Night Vision should make the entire program window dark, not just the
map
3) Map should be resizeable, though I believe there might be a
"hack" to get that to work
Otherwise, perfect! :)
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Re: Feature Requests
by MrClever - Nov 3rd 2002 21:53:22
> 2) Night Vision should make the entire
> program window dark, not just the map
I use "xgamma" and turn down the blue/green then fiddle with the red to
achieve a night-vision friendly display. Best bit is that it applies to
the entire Xsession, so you don't get blinded if you pull up some other
application.
Maybe the function of xgamma could be built into GPSDrive? Just a
thought.
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When all else fails, there's always tutorials.
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feature request
by Peter Davidse - Jun 21st 2002 05:47:43
- Is it possible to confine the position cursor in the viewing screen
(sometimes it goes of the screen) or centre the cursor always and let he
map move (would be great).
Thanx
Peter
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Re: feature request
by Fritz Ganter - Jun 21st 2002 08:31:59
This is fixed in the latest preview.
Map move is not possible because of lack of CPU power (notebooks, PDA).
But I increased the border so it stays more in the middle. Wait on the next
release.
> - Is it possible to confine the position
> cursor in the viewing screen (sometimes
> it goes of the screen) or centre the
> cursor always and let he map move (would
> be great).
>
> Thanx
> Peter
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Great fetching
by Jerry Knight - Jun 19th 2002 04:47:46
A nice thing to see would be address searching within gpsdrive to fetch in
a similar way to the maps.
Could there ever be a Terraserver/mapquest photo fetcher? Not sure how
complicated the retrieval would be, but I manually got a terraserver image
imported (resizing, coord lookup, etc) and it looks great.
Anyways, Great program. Once my laptop arrives, this will be high on the
list of installs.
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gpsdrive feature request
by Peter Davidse - Jun 14th 2002 05:46:18
Could the [n] feature (nigtview off 30secs) be modified to toggle between
night view and day view, or a key added for toggle and leave the [n] key as
is.
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Re: gpsdrive feature request
by Fritz Ganter - Jun 14th 2002 06:42:29
It is already in. I don't know the version, but if you take the latest
preview (1.23pre8) it is in there.
> Could the [n] feature (nigtview off
> 30secs) be modified to toggle between
> night view and day view, or a key added
> for toggle and leave the [n] key as
> is.
>
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Very nice!
by Grasshoppur - Apr 29th 2002 06:55:23
A friend brought this to my attention recently...
I've been actually wanting to write something similar to this, your code
has provided alot of insight to what i'll be dealing with (mapping
portion), I'd like to say, nice work sir i hope you keep it up :)
--
Grasshoppur The`Unsquishable
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GeoTIFF Support
by Tom Tomlinson - Feb 14th 2002 13:41:20
Have you ever looked at supporting different mapping formats? The GeoTIFF
format is what the USGS publishes it's topographical maps in.
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gpsdrive feature request
by peter neal - Jan 16th 2002 01:31:52
Could gpsdrive be changed to reload the way.txt file when the file is
modified?
I would like to be able to add new waypoints or correct the existing
waypoints in the way.txt file, without having to quit and restart gpsdrive.
I've been experimenting with using prismstumbler to find 802.11b access
points, and adding the locations to my list of waypoints. Then I map the
waypoints with gpsdrive.
Thank you for a great program. -peter-
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Re: gpsdrive feature request
by Fritz Ganter - Jan 16th 2002 02:58:23
Hi Peter.
I will add this in the next release. The way.txt file will be checked all
10 seconds and reloaded if necessary.
Fritz
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Re: gpsdrive feature request
by Fritz Ganter - Feb 17th 2002 21:10:19
> Could gpsdrive be changed to reload the
> way.txt file when the file is modified?
It is added now in 1.8
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Speed Alarm, minimum and maximum
by Denis_St-Amand - Dec 25th 2001 22:46:21
I use my GPS while driving alot, very often i need an alert for speed (low
or hi), i would like to have a setting to set an alert (audio).
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This project is paramount...!
by bergeron - Dec 7th 2001 21:17:52
It's a superb implementation. It's also the "keystone" of my dashpc project. Perhaps I could merge
your code into my project? I'm so happy I found this!!! You are closing
the gap between linux and windows significantly! Thank you!!!
Prost!
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Re: This project is paramount...!
by Colin - Apr 6th 2002 18:22:53
> It's a superb implementation. It's also
> the "keystone" of my dashpc project.
> Perhaps I could merge your code into my
> project? I'm so happy I found this!!!
> You are closing the gap between linux
> and windows significantly! Thank you!!!
>
>
> Prost!
What you mean closing it is as good :-)
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Great work
by Randy Page - Dec 7th 2001 15:16:33
An excellent piece of software. Keep up the good work.
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A must have
by Pakito Asinkecualo - Oct 8th 2001 15:21:21
I think gpsdrive is a must have program for GPS/Linux owners/users.
A great program that promises a lot of future for Linux in GPS navigation.
Is almost exactly what we needed in Linux.
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Pakito Asinkecualo
http://asinkecualo.org
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