[ gpsdrive ] need something to plan a route????

[Jannis Achstetter]

Chris h schrieb:
> On Tuesday 18 November 2008 13:01:35 Deric Stowell wrote:
>> THANKS CHRIS! LOL ...... I already know i am in the middle of NOWHERE....
> 
> Well your only 56 miles from your destination and three turns from my reading 
> of the instructions. Heck we used to walk that far for a 
> beer/pizza/girlfriend (order insignificant) in the old days...:) 
> 
>> Charles, thanks for your suggestion, i will check it out.
>> Any other suggestions are welcome, please keep them coming
> 
> Ok if you want that kind of data, then tangoGPS is in the same vain as RoadNav 
> which I have not tested. Tango is nice as you can work with it off line as it 
> caches OSM data for you and well as arial shots. 
> 
> Hope you make it home.

Personally, I use navit for this purpose. It has a tool included to 
convert .osm-files to it's own format (or you can fetch them on the 
cloudmade site: http://downloads.cloudmade.com/)
Navit can do routing and has the great advantage that is doesn't need to 
cache raster images (as tangoGPS seems to do). Whole Europe is just 
about 500MB (vector data so all zoomlevels you may want).
Homepage of navit is here: http://www.navit-project.org/
It has been image of the week of openstreetmap (19.01.2008) and has been 
featured on the cloudmade blog: 
http://blog.cloudmade.com/2008/09/20/in-car-navigation-with-openstreetmap-data/

Jannis