[Gpe-list] How about a map viewer?

[huang ying]

Hi,

> I'd encourage anybody working on map viewing software for GPE to take
> a look at Maemo Mapper for the Nokia 770 and N800 (home page at
> http://gnuite.com:8080/nokia770/maemo-mapper/ and code at
> https://garage.maemo.org/projects/maemo-mapper/).  It would be really

Thanks for your reminding. Good projects, perhaps I will not develop my own
map viewer program if I had found this project.

> helpful for both projects, for instance, if the layout of tiles in
> the filesystem (which Maemo Mapper borrowed from Google Maps) and
> the format for specifying POIs and their icons were the same.  And
> Maemo Mapper is GPLed, so there's lots of code that could be shared
> between the two projects.

Perhaps beased on this project to develop a pure GPE map viewer is
better. But I am a little lazy, hehe. I just developed a simple
program when I need it, and hope it is useful for somebody.

Maybe think about how to exchange idea, code, file format, icons and
other standard between GPE and maemo is a more important subject. So
that there will be no need of map viewer like program to be developed
twice.

Best Regards,
Ying Huang