[OSM-talk] Moving Map on Netbook?

[Frederik Ramm]

Hi,

    I'd like to use my netbook to show a moving map. Assuming that I 
somehow get gpsd hooked up and delivering position reports[*], what 
software can I use?

I'm toying with GpsDrive at the moment but things look a bit glum; it 
seems that it either expects me to install mapnik+postgres on my poor 
little Atom netbook, or scrape tiles from tiles at home.

My preferred map data source would be a local directory with tiles in it 
(or anything created from such a directory - don't worry I'm not 
scraping them, I'm making them myself, just not on this machine!). A 
proper vector rendering engine would be ok also but it needs to be nice 
to the CPU.

I read somewhere that GpsDrive could also use the Gosmore vector 
rendering but GpsDrive documentation tends to be a bit historic at times 
so if anyone has got anywhere with GpsDrive I'd be interested.

As for other options - should I maybe give Navit a try? Last time I used 
it was years ago and it was quite clumsy.

I was wondering if a browser/OpenLayers based approach could work. 
Simply do a small CGI script that queries gpsd and returns the current 
location, then write an OpenLayers application that runs ajaxy queries 
against the local web server and sets a new map center. Has anybody done 
that perhaps?

Bye
Frederik

[*] The machine is a Nokia Booklet 3G. It has a built-in GPS and I've 
got so far as to let gpsd exchange messages with it, however it doesn't 
ever seem to see a satellite, at all. I might have to hook it up with an 
external GPS after all.

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