Please don't hate for suggesting non-open source ideas ... ;) If we had a native google maps application it would take of quite a few of these needs... The new native app on Symbian is really excellent and integrates really nicely in the N95. I wonder if there are any lurkers here from Google... On 10/19/07, Henri Bergius <henri.bergius at iki.fi> wrote: > > On 10/19/07, Lars Persson Fink <lars_p_fink at yahoo.se> wrote: > > My thought was that it would be possible to supply the service with a > > source and a destination address and have respond with a route and > > information about the route, for instance the estimated time. The Route > > Finder Service could then ask Google (or some other web-service) OR the > > GPS to calculate the route. > > An interesting optional backend would be using the OpenStreetMap data > for route calculation. This would allow downloading the whole OSM data > file (currently 900MB) to the device and making routes (and possibly > generating maemo mapper map tiles!) without need for internet > connection. > > OSM data files: > http://planet.openstreetmap.org/ > > Some points about OSM-based route calculation: > > http://bergie.iki.fi/blog/notes_from_the_state_of_the_map_conference.html#b3a9ee267eb9b222235a1f048755da38 > > > /Lars > > /Henri > > -- > Henri Bergius > Motorcycle Adventures and Free Software > http://bergie.iki.fi/ > > Skype: henribergius > Jabber: henri.bergius at gmail.com > Jaiku: http://bergie.jaiku.com/ > -- Jonathan Greene +1.914.750.8740 AIM / iChat - atmasphere gtalk / jabber - jonathangreene at gmail.com Skype / Gizmo - JonathanGreene blogs - http://www.atmasphere.net/wp / http://www.maemoapps.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-users/attachments/20071019/df980532/attachment.htm
