[OSM-talk] OSM Maps on TomTom

[Nic Roets]

Hello Graham,

Be aware that the GTK code that draws rotated text (Pango) is quite
slow. You can ask Willem-Jan De Hoog who ported gosmore to the maemo.

Richard, are you aware that most "oddball GPSs" are WinCE powered and
that OSM has several apps for them. Sometimes you need to browse the
HPC-factor forums or the gpspassions forums to see how it can be
unlocked (MioPocket is a very nice replacement shell). I recently
bought a new Mio. The builtin app is good, but the maps are a bit out
dated. So if I compare it to Gosmore + OSM it is actually quite good:
Very up-to-date map with cycling features and PoIs, but without house
numbers, pretty rendering and a few other features. Give it a year or
two and some people will actually consider it to be an upgrade.

Regards,
Nic

On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 9:38 PM, Graham Jones
<grahamjones139 at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Looks like another good one for next year's Google Summer of Code
> then.....If only I'd thought of these 2 months ago!
> Unless I run out of nerdy jobs to do next winter and do it myself....If they
> have got Gnome/GTK running on the TomTom it shouldn't be too difficult to
> port a routing app to it - just another job to think about!
> Graham.
>
> On 5 April 2010 20:25, Richard Weait <richard at weait.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 1:26 PM, Graham Jones
>> <grahamjones139 at googlemail.com> wrote:
>> > Hi All,
>> > I wondered if anyone is using a TomTom SatNav with OpenStreetMap maps?
>> >  [ ... ]
>> > Can anyone provide me with any pointers please?
>>
>> +1 from me.
>>
>> I get a question at about one in three of the events I attend
>> regarding TomTom or other oddball GPS devices.  My fall back is to
>> just recommend what I'm using, even with the drawbacks of a
>> reverse-engineered format.
>
>
>
> --
> Dr. Graham Jones
> Hartlepool, UK
> email: grahamjones139 at gmail.com
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