Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Matti Nykyri <matti.nykyri@×××.fi>
To: "gentoo-user@l.g.o" <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "Headless question": Harvesting the results...software needed.
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 17:09:48
Message-Id: A6F0DBF2-E167-4AF3-AE5C-204CEE67510F@iki.fi
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] "Headless question": Harvesting the results...software needed. by Alec Ten Harmsel
1 On Sep 30, 2014, at 17:12, Alec Ten Harmsel <alec@××××××××××××××.com> wrote:
2 >
3 >
4 >> On 09/30/2014 10:05 AM, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
5 >> Suppose the GPS would already be attached
6 >> to the board and works...
7 >>
8 >> Is there any free available software and data for
9 >> strict offline useage (which does NOT calls
10 >> to home), which is able to map GPS data to a street/land
11 >> map?
12 >> I need both: The maps themselves and the logic to read
13 >> GPS coordinates and map movements and ways to those maps.
14 >>
15 >> Is something like that available for free or should
16 >> I directly ask the NSA/CIA/FBI/...?
17 >>
18 >> Thank you very much in advance for any help!
19 >> Best regards,
20 >> mcc
21 > The only project I know of that has openly available map data is
22 > OpenStreetMap (openstreetmap.org). I know they have an API, and they
23 > probably (not sure) have maps available for download.
24 >
25 > afaik the only way to combine various map data out of the box is to use
26 > a GIS package like QGIS. You can write software to do this using the
27 > proj4 library for an embedded box, not sure if anything for your
28 > specific use case already exists and is open source.
29 >
30 > Alec
31 >