[OSM-talk] Gosmore speaks !

[Nic Roets]

Changes :
If you have gpsd and libgpsd (incl. devel) installed while compiling
you can lock on to or 'follow' your GPSr.

It can rapidly recalculate the route if the destination and parameters
stays fixed, e.g. while you're driving.

If you have the flite text to speech library installed while
compiling, it will give you simple audible turning directions. I guess
it handles many situations badly, but because I had never seen a
high-end Garmin or Tom-tom unit in operation, so I welcome comments
from people familiar with them. A test osm xml file will certainly be
helpful.

You can test the voices with 'make "CFLAGS=-g -DROUTE_TEST"' and then
shift-clicking to simulate movements of the vehicle.

wget www.rational.co.za/gosmore.cc
wget www.rational.co.za/Makefile
make
...

On 6/19/07, Frederik Ramm <frederik at remote.org> wrote:
> just hangs, it doesn't do umlauts - but it works! It is only 1024 lines

Something about convert to local charset...

> of C++ code, it uses only 64 MB of memory, and I can actually load up

More C than C++

> I wouldn't have thought this was possible. Of course the rendering is

The colour scheme is terrible, esp. when driving in a car.
Need to know more about PangoLayout for rotated text.