[ gpsdrive ] Building gpsdrive without Friendsd and kismet

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> a lot of people are working on routing with osm data ;-)
> the primary plan was, to wait until a good solution, which can be easily
> included into gpsdrive, is ready to be used.
>
> but there is another, simpler approach:
> we can connect to the api of openrouteservice for route calculation and
> use
> the results inside gpsdrive. I already had a short look on that, and it
> seems, that this can be implemented very easy. the only drawback is, that
> an
> online connection will be needed for this feature.
>
> so, yes, we will have routing within the next few months.

Unfortunately this is very restrictive, no Australia (and many other
counrties), has to have internet connection.

So this got me looking at alternatives.

And what I found was gosmore.

It could be run from script activated from a button within gpsdrive and
using the CGI interface it could then return a gpx file which can be
loaded into gpsdrive.

I know it does not generate a gpx file but this could be built into the
script.

It's not ideal but is at least it's available offline and from what I've
tried it's quite fast.

Additionally maybe look at implementing the code from gosmore directly
into gpsdrive.

Also looked at the pyroute(lib/lib2) but still requires an internet
connection and very slow.

I'll have a play arround with it using the navigation.c and navigation.h
files with a button on the main window.

Regards
Ross