[ gpsdrive ] Greets from newbie

[Guenther Meyer]

Am Mittwoch 13 Februar 2008 schrieb gpsdosm at trixtar.org:
> Just a newbie at this stuff I already have questions like
>
>
> When will we be able to feed gpsdrive digital compass data (0-359)
> to have it turn the map always slewed to north (or to wherever the
> user wants to slew to)?
>
there are plans for a kind of position daemon to use data other than gps, like
data from the obd bus or digital compasses. but afaik there isn't anything 
usable, yet.
having a turning map is really interesting, but it's not one of our primary 
goals now. sometime in the future we will have this feature.

> Much like GPL route data is being gathered would it be a good
> idea to research the possibility of gathering/pooling aerial
> imagery?  I'm thinking along the lines of square seconds as
> one possible mosaic basis.  This implies an enormous number
> of tiles (eventually) but hey, why start with limits like
> youknowwho once did?  Ideally such imagery (and let's push
> it while we can, even on a typical seasonal basis down to the
> averege week of the year with 5 inches of snow or dry cacti)
> would be the toggled background for any superimposed data.
> In addition tio toggling on/off it should even be possib;e
> to ghost/unghost it to highlight the other data.
>
afaik there is already a project for gathering free image data somewhere.

displaying such data would be possible, I guess. one just has to write an 
import filter. but overlaying different image/map data is currently not 
possible. what is possible is to overlay POIs, track and route data on a 
map/image from one source.



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