gps navigation project?

[Derek Atkins]

David,

David Rysdam <david at rysdam.org> writes:

> 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.

Could you explain your distinction between "Routing" and "Navigation"
here?  I'm not sure I really understand the difference, unless you just
mean "placing a dot on a map and moving the map as you move" (i.e. the
UI piece).

> 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?

You could look at the source of the Google Navigation app..  I bet it's
open source..

-derek
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