GPS application (was: Request for help: Would like community applications to show anddiscuss at LinuxWorld)

[Jay Vaughan]

> @Marcus -  My main job is to sell the Neo ( I work for a  
> distributor) and tangoGPS is the application that impresses my  
> clients (and me) the most (even though we hardly have OSM data for  
> India!). I would love to see it continue to be developed. (Offline  
> maps is something that people have asked me about also. If you have  
> some suggestions about making that possible using OSM data and I am  
> sure you will find a lot of community support to make that happen)


It is very interesting to hear of your travails in India .. here in  
Austria, the map data is available for the most part, and what I have  
done with TangoGPS is navigate all over the areas I need, while  
connected to the Internet, and 'soaked the cache' as much as  
possible.  This is a very rewarding experience, somehow, especially  
with daily updates to my datasets (trace tiles!) .. and it can be used  
in offline mode pretty well, if you give it space.

So I hope you come up with good data for India.  I always wanted to  
have a map of the entire world available in my pocket, so maybe we get  
closer and closer to that .. ;)

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Jay Vaughan