Idea for Openmoko application: Tide updates
Jim Ancona
jim at anconafamily.com
Wed Sep 17 22:03:25 CEST 2008
Michael Shiloh wrote:
> Surfers, fisherpeople, and I'm sure others care about the tides. Turns
> out there are websites and applications that provide this data. For a
> nice review:
>
> http://www.kk.org/cooltools/archives/003037.php
>
> Something like this would seem to be ideal for Openmoko, especially with
> GPS.
I've used Tide Tool, a nice GPL Palm App mentioned in the review. It's
based on XTide which is available in Debian. It runs on my Freerunner,
although the UI uses multiple windows in a way that doesn't work well on
the small display. That might be a good place to start.
Jim
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