Posts Tagged ‘ OSM ’
Wow this is quite a nice suprise. Nicolas gave in and released the source of AndNav2. So I can now spend my time hacking that instead of reverse-engineering it I rooted my HTC Hero so I actually don’t need to do that anymore, but that is really beside the point. With the source [ READ MORE ]
First a short background. HTC Hero released with android 1.5. Google releases android 1.6 with TTS (text-to-speech) support. Andnav2 working fine since it uses external tts library. Author of Andnav2 (Nicolas) releases version compatible with android 1.6, but leaves all users of 1.5 devices out in the cold. The update was uploaded to marked with [ READ MORE ]
As I was researching the android platform before buying a HTC Hero, one of the things that really got me excited was the mappping/gps application andnav2. It’s a frontend for openstreetmap, that uses the open routing service to provide turn-by-turn, all for free. The only thing is that it requires is a internet connection for [ READ MORE ]
Was reading the blog of cloudmade today and found that they have a similar service to maps.google.com, called oddly enough maps.cloudmade.com. Instead of maps.google.com this uses openstreetmap as its source of data. This map seems to work a lot nicer than the frontend at openstreetmap.org. And shows more things like gas stations and shopping posibilities [ READ MORE ]
This graphical analysis / visualization is quite interesting. [ READ MORE ]
Very cool and inspirational video showing the progress of openstreetmap in 2008. OSM 2008: A Year of Edits from ItoWorld on Vimeo. [ READ MORE ]
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