MapThis: A WIP From Deniska
Deniska is taking a break from his porting projects to create an application that will be of help to those people who get lost easily or those who’ll find themselves in a foreign territory this summer. Codename MapThis is a work in progress that will serve as a portable map viewer for the PSP.
The turnout of this project is currently very buggy but deniska says the final product will allow users to scroll through a 3100×2500 map that covers more or less a 52 square mile area with city level details. A zoom-out will also be squeezed into the current project. Serving as a travel guide, MapThis will also include an access area’s attraction info, including the name, address, and phone number; currently, deniska has managed to put in restaurants into the app.
Mapping to GPS coordinates will also be one feature of MapThis, allowing the possibility of external GPS feed. Deniska says that one map with all the attraction data will take only take about 1MB of space on MS. MapThis will also come with “a linux/cygwin script to generate map tiles and data from public sources for given address. The script can be wrapped in to a cgi wrapper and therefore turned in to a web service.”
Since the project is still currently being developed, deniska will be needing some help. As he would want to “create a USB driver, so it can be plugged in w/o soldering”, if anyone is willing to lend him a USB-based GPS mouse for his experiments or if anyone wants to work on the GPS communication part, just contact deniska.
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Deniska is taking a break from his porting projects to create an application that will be of help to those people who get lost easily or those who’ll find themselves in a foreign territory this summer. Codename MapThis is a work in progress that will serve as a portable map viewer for the PSP.
The turnout of this project is currently very buggy but deniska says the final product will allow users to scroll through a 3100×2500 map that covers more or less a 52 square mile area with city level details. A zoom-out will also be squeezed into the current project. Serving as a travel guide, MapThis will also include an access area’s attraction info, including the name, address, and phone number; currently, deniska has managed to put in restaurants into the app.
Mapping to GPS coordinates will also be one feature of MapThis, allowing the possibility of external GPS feed. Deniska says that one map with all the attraction data will take only take about 1MB of space on MS. MapThis will also come with “a linux/cygwin script to generate map tiles and data from public sources for given address. The script can be wrapped in to a cgi wrapper and therefore turned in to a web service.”
Since the project is still currently being developed, deniska will be needing some help. As he would want to “create a USB driver, so it can be plugged in w/o soldering”, if anyone is willing to lend him a USB-based GPS mouse for his experiments or if anyone wants to work on the GPS communication part, just contact deniska.
Via deniska
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