[ gpsdrive ] marine or aviation specific package

[chris h]

On Tuesday 16 September 2008 03:59:58 Hamish wrote:


> How would a marine or aviation specific version differ from what we have
> now?

Script package and tabs/buttons dedicated to downloading maps and processing 
them "automagically" from  wms or other server sources. Its the processing of 
tiles that's really the issue and that could be automated in theory. So for a 
marine application of gpsdrive, downloading maps would then be as simple as 
expedia sources. At this time I think this would be limited probably to NOAA 
mapping sources however. 

There would be no dependency on openstreetmap, mapnick or any other component 
to keep the package as small and robust as possible. 

Those are the two big issues I can think of, but as I don't know the program 
well enough at this point I cant really comment further.   

Since gpsdrive cannot be used for route planning as described in the docs, and 
I understand why, perhaps there is a workaround as that would complete a 
simple and basic marine ECS. 

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/ch