From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D329913838B for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2014 17:50:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C5913E0B24; Tue, 30 Sep 2014 17:50:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mout.gmx.net (mout.gmx.net [212.227.17.22]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 41522E0AC1 for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2014 17:50:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost ([84.133.172.205]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx102) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0M3MAG-1YPcBJ13JY-00qxUq for ; Tue, 30 Sep 2014 19:50:05 +0200 Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2014 19:49:56 +0200 From: meino.cramer@gmx.de To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "Headless question": Harvesting the results...software needed. Message-ID: <20140930174956.GL3828@solfire> References: <20140930140513.GJ3828@solfire> <542ABA4F.9060302@alectenharmsel.com> <07395CDC-3453-48E3-8EE6-17A9E73347E2@antarean.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <07395CDC-3453-48E3-8EE6-17A9E73347E2@antarean.org> User-Agent: mutt-ng/devel-r804 (Linux) X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:GQSUZjTP/MZEoH9PHvofK6vH5vXYCx0HxIAZ0yvHqdH69HfeDxr 8uVDZQD/+a5WJmRMN+LDPrTwz08Dci/6mwZXlimoa23fqUqAftUx+XQene7J8tlVnH+sVX6 +ulyO/4muBEnqW2BNWA7C2Hsbs3gFzwq2EjrTB9t5RQMwwGii9418gIIYQJn5ai+z5XFWs9 danECHz0haw+/4IRmBsqQ== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1; X-Archives-Salt: 02d9c25a-7b72-41ef-b7ef-a129c59074ab X-Archives-Hash: a52e136842d44c4e97ad504d4a7b875c J. Roeleveld [14-09-30 19:40]: > On 30 September 2014 16:12:31 CEST, Alec Ten Harmsel 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 > -- > Sent from my Android device with K-9 Mail. Please excuse my brevity. > ...its a damn long way...of waiting, though...;) I am currently downloading the data (Only Europe)...this will be a journey of two days uninterrupted waiting. And -- if murphy will be good to me -- only one file (there are two of them) is the wrong one and has to replaced by another 20GByte file lateron. Will see.... Next in this cinema: "The incredible download from Mars -- Episode II: The revenge of the forgotten bytes" ;) Best regards, mcc