From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "Headless question": Harvesting the results...software needed.
Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 19:36:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <07395CDC-3453-48E3-8EE6-17A9E73347E2@antarean.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <542ABA4F.9060302@alectenharmsel.com>
On 30 September 2014 16:12:31 CEST, Alec Ten Harmsel <alec@alectenharmsel.com> wrote:
>
>On 09/30/2014 10:05 AM, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote:
>> Suppose the GPS would already be attached
>> to the board and works...
>>
>> Is there any free available software and data for
>> strict offline useage (which does NOT calls
>> to home), which is able to map GPS data to a street/land
>> map?
>> I need both: The maps themselves and the logic to read
>> GPS coordinates and map movements and ways to those maps.
>>
>> Is something like that available for free or should
>> I directly ask the NSA/CIA/FBI/...?
>>
>> Thank you very much in advance for any help!
>> Best regards,
>> mcc
>>
>The only project I know of that has openly available map data is
>OpenStreetMap (openstreetmap.org). I know they have an API, and they
>probably (not sure) have maps available for download.
>
>afaik the only way to combine various map data out of the box is to use
>a GIS package like QGIS. You can write software to do this using the
>proj4 library for an embedded box, not sure if anything for your
>specific use case already exists and is open source.
>
>Alec
Openstreetmap is a good bet.
You might also have some luck if you look into PostGIS.
It is an extension to postgresql, which might be overkill, but you might be able to use that in yiur Google searches.
If borders would be nice and straight, it would be easy. Unfortunately they are not.
--
Joost
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-30 17:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-30 14:05 [gentoo-user] "Headless question": Harvesting the results...software needed meino.cramer
2014-09-30 14:12 ` Alec Ten Harmsel
2014-09-30 17:09 ` Matti Nykyri
2014-09-30 17:36 ` J. Roeleveld [this message]
2014-09-30 17:47 ` Matti Nykyri
2014-09-30 17:49 ` meino.cramer
2014-09-30 17:43 ` Matti Nykyri
2014-09-30 18:12 ` meino.cramer
2014-09-30 19:37 ` Matti Nykyri
2014-10-01 2:54 ` meino.cramer
2014-10-01 11:11 ` Matti Nykyri
2014-10-01 13:26 ` meino.cramer
2014-10-01 13:31 ` Mick
2014-10-01 13:40 ` meino.cramer
2014-10-01 14:16 ` Matti Nykyri
2014-10-04 16:25 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2014-10-04 16:50 ` meino.cramer
2014-09-30 18:20 ` thegeezer
2014-09-30 18:31 ` meino.cramer
2014-10-11 14:10 ` meino.cramer
2014-10-12 7:24 ` Stroller
2014-10-12 8:09 ` meino.cramer
2014-10-12 9:21 ` Neil Bothwick
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