[OSM-talk] Some question about OSM

[Joerg Ostertag]

On Friday 30 June 2006 12:26, Nicola Ranaldo wrote:
> On Friday 30 June 2006 11:21, Joerg Ostertag wrote:
> > On Friday 30 June 2006 10:51, Nicola Ranaldo wrote:
> > > I'm writing a qt4-based OSM client in order to render maps and doing
> > > route planning with speech instructions (festival).
> >
> > <Just a thought from the gpsdrive maintainer>
> > I know qt-4 might be more convinient, but what about helping getting
> > gpsdrive better?
> > </Just a thought from the gpsdrive maintainer>
>
> The main reason is i prefer C++ 

So do I so if you'd like to code parts of gpsdrive in C++ feel free.

> and have a small experience over qt 
> library. The version 4 has a very good painting engine (i think svg-like),
> and in the future i'd like to fork a full integrate version in the KDE
> environment (dcop and so on).

To be honest I myself thought of re-coding everything for QT-4 and C++, but 
finally I decided for myself to work on an existing and well working 
application rather than starting a new one. And I still don't regret this 
decission.

> Howewer it's always free code so the projects can share ideas and code! (i
> cannot say now if i'll get the time to make it a reality)

You might want to have a look at the gdal and database stuff in gpsdrive. This 
might help you develop your application too. Since it's also GPL; feel free 
to grab stuff out of there too.

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Joerg