gps navigation project?

[Tom Buskey]

This could be a neat project.  I'd suggest asking some of the sites like
makezine.com or instructables.

Is this project going to be a stand alone GPS w/no internet like a garmin
or something like google maps on a phone? That will drive some of your
design decisions.

If it has internet access, will it use mobile wireless or wifi/ethernet?
Does it need to be usable in a car?

On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 9:13 AM, David Rysdam <david at rysdam.org> wrote:

> I've complained here before about how much I hate pretty much all GPS
> devices/software. I finally partly-decided to half-heartedly make a
> feeble stab at doing something about it!
>
> There's 3 parts:
>
> Maps: OSM is the obvious choice.
>
> Routing: There's a bunch of good routers out there, although one major
> thrust of my own thing involves changing the routing (or at least
> exposing parameters nobody else seems to expose the way I want). I
> figure I'll start with one of those with my own pre-processor in front
> of it, then go from there.
>
> Navigation: There doesn't seem to be a lot of work in this area,
> although it's hard to google for without getting inundated by retail
> product hits.
>
> The debian repos have "navit" that does a full end-to-end thing, which I
> don't want. I could maybe rip out just the navigation part, but their
> Android app is so awful it gives me a bad code smell feeling.
>
> Does anyone know of any projects that specifically target (and do a good
> job on) taking a pile of maps and a GPX file and turning that into a
> sequence of "in 20 miles, turn left"-type directions?
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