[OSM-talk] Announce: Gosmore Earth

[Nic Roets]

I'm pleased to announce Gosmore Earth after more than a year of silence.
Gosmore is a viewer of OSM-XML with routing and searching capabilities.
Ports include Linux, Windows, Windows-Mobile and Maemo. It uses it's own
binary file format that is optimized for small devices.

New features include:
* 3D view
* Better presentation of search results
* Better rendering
* Better lowzoom
* Multipolygon support
* Automatic switching of map files and in-program downloads of maps.
Extracts covering the complete planet are now provided on a weekly basis.
* Better display of turn-by-turn instructions
* Native Windows port (much faster) with an easy to use installer.
* Quickly launch osm.org, gmaps or Potlatch from within the application.
Under Linux you can also open another application (e.g. firefox or
thunderbird), highlight text containing gps coordinates and then switch to
Gosmore to plot those locations on the map.
* Some routing tweaks, like tracktype and turning across traffic at busy
junctions. Still not perfect. So services like yournavigation should not yet
upgrade their engines, but rather consider this as experimental.

A complete description and installation instructions can be found here:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Gosmore

Outstanding issue are listed here:
http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Talk:Gosmore
Development has stalled, but when these issues are resolved (hopefully
during 2010), the next version (1.0) will be announced.

Special thanks goes to David Dean for a lot of testing and a few bug fixes.
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