Hi, The excellent maemo mapper application can use both Google and OpenStreetMap as well as Microsoft Virtual Earth, possibly others. It also has a possibility to ask a web-service for a route between two locations. I see meamo mapper as a potential source of routes for the Route Finder Service. Regards, Lars Jonathan Greene skrev: > 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 > <mailto:henri.bergius at iki.fi>> wrote: > > On 10/19/07, Lars Persson Fink <lars_p_fink at yahoo.se > <mailto: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 <mailto: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 > <mailto:jonathangreene at gmail.com> > Skype / Gizmo - JonathanGreene > blogs - http://www.atmasphere.net/wp / http://www.maemoapps.com -- Lars Persson Fink tfn: 08-722 42 15 H?radsdomarv?gen 11 mob: 070-334 35 97 128 38 Skarpn?ck
