Extras/cloudgps

Extras/cloudgps
Status	Working
Devices	Nokia_N900,Motorola_Droid_4,PinePhone
Leste repo	https://github.com/maemo-leste-extras/cloudgps
Category	Category:Navigation
Packager	User:Wizzup

The cloudgps package provides a smooth, interactive location viewer and car navigation.

Status

Works fine with location services.

Routing works now through OSRM and geocoding through Nominatim (OpenStreetMap).

Maps are provided by OpenStreetMap and GoogleMaps. (Satellite view still works)

Screenshots

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  3D view
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  2D view
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  N900

Tutorial

From Talk.maemo.org: (thanks to dwaradzyn)

CloudGPS is a complete rewrite of J2ME version (see here) to N900 using C and OpenGL ES for smooth operation.

Your current location is shown as blue dot on screen. The dot turns green when GPS is fixed. The bars in upper right section of the screen show signal strenght of GPS satellites. They turn brighter for satellites that are currently active. (currently hidden)

Touchscreen controls:

Tap zoom in/zoom out buttons to change zoom level by 1 or hold to change by few levels. Hold shift while touching zoom buttons to change zoom level by a fraction. Tap "my location" button (the one with blue dot) to toggle following your current location (and direction in 3D mode and when rotation is enabled in 2D mode). Goggles icon is used for searching. Compass icon shows current view direction and toggles rotation mode in 2D. Rest of screen is used for kinetic scrolling.

You can tap and hold anywhere on map to invoke popup menu. By choosing "Directions from here" or "Directions to here" you can start routing. Route has a green marker with letter "A" on starting point and green marker with letter "B" on destination. You can tap and hold one of those markers and then drag it (if you are near screen edge the map will scroll for you) to another place. This will trigger route recalculation.

Route is saved locally and when it was displayed during last CloudGPS session it will be restored without using network on next startup. Turn by turn instructions are displayed when current position is near route. Also distance to destination and distance to next instruction is displayed.

In 3D mode and when rotation mode is enabled upper part of screen is used to rotate view.

Important keyboard controls:

Arrows - scroll/rotate the map,

Dot - zoom out,

Enter - zoom in,

Space - toggle "follow me" mode,

Q - quit application,

N - switch to next tile provider. See /opt/cloudgps/providers.ini file.

Shift + N - switch previous tile provider.

R - next routing provider

Shift + R - previous routing provider

Additional keyboard controls:

G - [debug] toggle grid,

C - [debug] toggle current latitude and longitude and distance from current GPS position.

H - [debug] show tile arrays with states and visibility range

When Shift is pressed zooming behaviour is altered.

X - toggle accelerometer usage. Accelerometer is calibrated in the moment it is enabled.

S - switch to next search provider (currently CloudMade and Google addres search are supported)

O - add temporary marker on screen centre.

Backspace - return to previous position after pressing "my location" button.

Z - toggle offline mode.

U - [debug] route me here

D - route overview flyby. The camera will go to route start and then follow route till the end. Use at high zoom levels (17+).

M - toggle mipmapping (display quality)

P - force orientation change

V - show app version

When search bar is active keys are used as text input. Only ASCII characters supported right now. Use Enter to search query.

Tap on any map marker on screen to get it center.