Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Alec Ten Harmsel <alec@××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "Headless question": Harvesting the results...software needed.
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 14:12:39
Message-Id: 542ABA4F.9060302@alectenharmsel.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] "Headless question": Harvesting the results...software needed. by meino.cramer@gmx.de
1 On 09/30/2014 10:05 AM, meino.cramer@×××.de wrote:
2 > Suppose the GPS would already be attached
3 > to the board and works...
4 >
5 > Is there any free available software and data for
6 > strict offline useage (which does NOT calls
7 > to home), which is able to map GPS data to a street/land
8 > map?
9 > I need both: The maps themselves and the logic to read
10 > GPS coordinates and map movements and ways to those maps.
11 >
12 > Is something like that available for free or should
13 > I directly ask the NSA/CIA/FBI/...?
14 >
15 > Thank you very much in advance for any help!
16 > Best regards,
17 > mcc
18 >
19 The only project I know of that has openly available map data is
20 OpenStreetMap (openstreetmap.org). I know they have an API, and they
21 probably (not sure) have maps available for download.
22
23 afaik the only way to combine various map data out of the box is to use
24 a GIS package like QGIS. You can write software to do this using the
25 proj4 library for an embedded box, not sure if anything for your
26 specific use case already exists and is open source.
27
28 Alec

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