Osmgpsmap on John Stowers

Map Updates

Thu, 10 Jun 2010 16:34:27 +0000

I recently made a number of improvements to osm-gps-map , the easy to use mapping widget. The motivation for these came at the request of the foxtrotGPS developers (foxtrotGPS is a community developed fork of TangoGPS). These changes enhanced the API for adding images and tracks to the map, and in addition allowed me to clean up the basic API making it easier to use for the common case. But, there is more, especially relevant to Gtk+/GNOME 3.0.

Misc Hacking

Fri, 22 Jan 2010 11:22:39 +0000

I had two days off while I moved offices, so I got a chance to catch up on my backlog of random hacking.

osm-gps-map

I released osm-gps-map v0.5.0 which adds a few new features (such as keyboard navigation) but also contains many bugfixes and performance improvements. Check the release notes for more information. The next item on the TODO is merging the OSD/layers branch.

Conduit

I released Conduit 0.3.17 which was long overdue. Mostly a bugfix release and updating to new API. The Conduit homepage has also moved to live.gnome.org. Progress on Conduit is a bit slow at the moment, it does everything I want it to (I have a budget cellphone so phone synce does not interest me), and is pretty stable. I have some SOC work I would like to merge, but basically I am looking for developers and inspiration…

Gtk+ Map Widget

Mon, 11 Jan 2010 01:14:06 +0000

It has been a long time between blogs. I thought I should talk about the piece of software that has been responsible for the most emails in my inbox over the last few days - osm-gps-map, the Gtk+ based map widget . What started as a widget for use in one small application of mine has grown considerably.

I recently released 0.4.0 , a bugfix release.
I created a mailing list , if you are a user or interested osm-gps-map, them please join.

Map Widget Release

Thu, 23 Apr 2009 00:05:31 +0000

I made a new April resolution to start blogging reguarly again. The first step of that long journey begins now.

OpenStreetMap GPS Mapping Widget - 0.3

I just released v0.3 of osm-gps-map, the easy to use Gtk+ mapping widget . Highlights for this release include;

A new major contributor, Alberto Mardegan , who worked on many of the new features of this release. Thanks a lot Alberto!
Draw map tracks with Cairo by default.

Some More Software

Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:10:36 +0000

As was the theme of yesterdays post, here comes some more software that I have hacked on recently and can now be found on Github .

**osm-gps-map **osm-gps-map is a Gtk+ widget (and Python bindings) that when given GPS co-ordinates, draws a GPS track, and points of interest on a moving map display. It Currently supports a number of different mapping sources;

openstreetmap (default)
openaerialmap
maps-for-free
satellite maps from a number of proprietary providers

Blog as Noticeboard

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:45:53 +0000

Summer of Code This has now finished, and I am really happy with how it went. I was able to complete a Python binding to libsyncml. This was done with the help of Pybindgen , which aside from a few quirks, performed admirably. Expect this to become the premier tool to automatically create python bindings to C/C++ libraries. The binding still contains too many bugs to be considered usable in Conduit trunk (read: crasher bugs) but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

Frantic

Wed, 21 May 2008 20:22:38 +0000

Frantic would be how I described my last two weeks. I have had very little free time to work on Conduit. Everything seems to have come at once!

I got accepted for summer of code - adding SyncML support to Conduit.
Alexandre Inacio Rosenfeld also got accepted to SOC to work on Ipod and media support in Conduit.
I got accepted to speak at GUADEC , which I will be attending, providing all finances work out.