<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Aug 25, 2015 at 3:29 PM, Matt Minuti <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:matt.minuti@gmail.com" target="_blank">matt.minuti@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><p dir="ltr"><br>
On Aug 25, 2015 11:25 AM, "David Rysdam" <<a href="mailto:david@rysdam.org" target="_blank">david@rysdam.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> Tom Buskey <<a href="mailto:tom@buskey.name" target="_blank">tom@buskey.name</a>> writes:<br>
> > Is this project going to be a stand alone GPS w/no internet like a garmin<br>
> > or something like google maps on a phone? That will drive some of your<br>
> > design decisions.<br>
> ><br>
> > If it has internet access, will it use mobile wireless or wifi/ethernet?<br>
> > Does it need to be usable in a car?<br>
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> I've been envisioning using it on a phone or tablet. Because I'm a<br>
> cheapskate that doesn't pay much for data, it would need to be able to<br>
> work offline. But the entire idea is that I'd put a GPX on there and it<br>
> would only navigate me through that without changing the route (other<br>
> than getting me back to the route if I stray from it), so that's not a<br>
> big problem.<br>
><br>
> Still, I've got some use cases that would involve data or wifi. For<br>
> instance, creating my route at a hotel room (either on the phone or on a<br>
> real comptuer and sending it to the phone), then navigating<br>
> offline. That could work well with a tablet, which tend to have wifi but<br>
> not mobile data in the lower end, anyway.</p>
</span><p dir="ltr">Sounds to me the target is offline, then. Can always add something to fetch maps, but adding local offline processing ought to be harder.</p>
<p dir="ltr">If you go ahead with this, there's two features I feel like every GPS I've used has lacked, though not from lack of data.<br>
1. There's often an "avoid tolls" or "this route has tolls," but never anything hinting at how much it will cost. A $1 toll is a lot nicer than a $30 one.<br>
2. "Find on the way" would be an amazing thing. Imagine, you ask for a ${DONUTSHOP} on the way from A to B, and it finds one that's minimally off the planned route.</p></blockquote><div>My 3yr old garmin will find stuff near destination or along route. Not as easy as it should be though.</div><div> </div><div>My car has something else and I can avoid whole roads which is nice. Sometime you don't want to go north on 93 on Friday. Rt 3 is less congested...</div></div></div></div>