[kismac] Re: GPS success story
- From: Michael Rossberg <mick@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: kismac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 19:24:04 +0200
> Actually, such a feature may be more useful than you think -- it is
> quite often possible to anticipate a trip and retrieve all the images
> you need and store them on a hard drive.
I know it is useful, but as you said you use an automatic download.
> In the case of Canadian government topographic maps, they are stored on
> a server with a very consistent naming structure and with a bit of
> "curl work" I was able to download my entire region. An afternoon of
> calibrating them (not done yet) will allow me to load an unload maps
> depending on my location.
calibration is also my problem. i need to support a lot of different
services for a lot of countries. and all have to be calibrated. what
server do you use for the canadian government maps?
> The "checkerboard" application could even be separate (a web image map,
> I think, would be a good kluge) and it would launch the appropriate
> .kismap file.
i think a kismap-collection would be the best, one could put a lot of
overlapping maps into the collection and kismac would automatically
select the best map.... this would avoid a checkerboard application.
did anyone try 0.05d yet?
mick
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