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By: Pierre-Luc Beaudoin » Blog Archive » Introducing libchamplain

Pierre-Luc Beaudoin » Blog Archive » Introducing libchamplain — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 14:22:43 +0000

[...] was planning to announce this on Monday, after a week-end to clean things up, but since another widget with similar features have been announced today, I think I should announce mine as [...]

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» Blog as Noticeboard Johns Blog — Fri, 22 Aug 2008 12:46:03 +0000

[...] GPS Widget Some time ago I mentioned the osm-gps-map widget that I have been working on, semi-related to my PhD. I just made [...]

By: Oliver

Oliver — Thu, 29 May 2008 21:11:55 +0000

That OSM widget looks pretty nice, and also seems to be a good step towards better offline cache handling (which seems to be pretty bad in Tangogps). It would be cool if you could make the code available (just put a tgz somewhere) so people can start playing with it.
Thanks, Oliver

By: Ian

Ian — Wed, 21 May 2008 18:59:22 +0000

I’m the founder of the Roadster project.

Roadster did vector drawing of US TIGER road data. TIGER has a lot of problems (data accuracy, no one-way streets, US-only). OpenStreetMap is clearly the way forward now.

We had talked about splitting Roadster in to two parts: a reusable map widget and a GUI, but it never happened.

Do you have plans to make your widget use a local cache of *vector* data and do the drawing itself, instead of downloading tile images?

There are lots of advantages to having the vector data, including theme-ability (think day or night visible color themes), selective drawing of map features, and driving directions. Vector data can also be much smaller than image data, allowing a portable device to store much more of the world.

If you are interested in producing such a widget, please let me know. I’d love to write a GUI for it.

By: Leo S

Leo S — Wed, 21 May 2008 18:26:58 +0000

You might be interested to know that Marble now also supports openstreetmap..
http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/3475

By: Chris Sherlock

Chris Sherlock — Wed, 21 May 2008 10:46:00 +0000

While I’m not much of a coder, I can definitely tell you that Conduit rocks! I used it to upload photos of my baby to Facebook. Due to some reason or other, Java doesn’t work in Firefox on my Ubuntu distro. I didn’t think I’d be able to upload the photos, however with the Conduit dataprovider I was able to easily upload the photos!

Similar issue with Google Picasa. The WINE based program is OK I guess, but conduit was far easier to use overall.

So, as an end user your program has been a godsend to me. I figured that while I can’t do much, at the very least a great big heartfelt thank you is in order!

By: John Carr

John Carr — Wed, 21 May 2008 10:23:16 +0000

Hey John - blowing away .mozilla fixed Firefox 3 on both boxes that were having trouble with it. Works like a dream now, better than FF2 once more.

By: John Stowers

John Stowers — Wed, 21 May 2008 08:52:20 +0000

@Luigi
Yes, you can get the location the user clicked in the button-release event signal handler using g_object_get(map, “latitude”). You can see the latitude and longitude displayed in the GtkEntry in the screenshot.

By: Luigi

Luigi — Wed, 21 May 2008 08:40:23 +0000

Very cool widget.
Is possible to get back the coordinates of where the user click on the map?

By: Alexander

Alexander — Wed, 21 May 2008 08:08:26 +0000

Let me just say that I find it awesome that there is somebody working on Mobile Device Sync with Gnome, that’s one of the few pieces of the Linux desktop that are somehow still missing.