tangoGPS

Thus there are now native packages for

• Fedora
• openSUSE
• Debian
• Ubuntu
• Mandriva

I am pleased to announce Version 0.9.0.1, introducing another feature that I have always wanted to have: Adding points of interest. Whenever you find a nice little Restaurant or a great Pub, just add it to your favourites. You are an avid fan of geocaching? Just add them to the list of your POIs.

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A major new feature has landed and albeit still experimental I'm quite excited myself about it: viewing geocoded photos.

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Version 0.8.0 digest:
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New feature:

• showing geocoded photos

Other:

• satellites in view are now shown
• bugfix for lock-up when no gpsd is running

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1: (satellites in view)/(satellites used)/(HDOP): 1/0/0.0

2: clickable photo icon

3: geo photo

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Screenshot of the desktop/eeePC version:
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So how do you get your photos into it?

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Step 0:

install sqlite3 and jhead, download geotag2db.pl

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Step 1:

You need geotagged photos with GPS info in the EXIF data. See in the doc section for more info/howto. There is a new article about correlating photos and tracks.

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Step 2:

Run:

geotag2db.pl /directory/with/your/photo/direcories

This produces a /tmp/geophoto.db

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Step 3:

Load the photo info database

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Now click on any photo icon and select geo photo in the pop-up menu

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Et voila! A thumbnail of the photo is shown.

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Downloads

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tangogps_0.8.0_i386.deb . Debian, Ubuntu, eeePC

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tangogps-0.8.0-2.i386.rpm . SuSE, Fedora etc.

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tangogps_0.8.0-r1_armv4t.ipk . Openmoko Neo 1973 / Neo Freerunner

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tangogps-0.8.0.tar.gz . Source tarball

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geotag2db.pl . Script to extract EXIF GPS data into sqlite3 database

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You have no geotagged photos but want to see/test yourself? Here are some photos and a database:

geophoto.tgz - save it to your /tmp directory, then

 cd /tmp && tar xfvz geophoto.tgz

 That's it.

Comments as always welcome!

Finally I found some time to play with making real packages for Debian, Ubuntu, SuSE and Fedora. It is a first shot, please leave feedback about success in the comments.

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Debian / Ubuntu
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tangogps_0.7.98_i386.deb
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SuSE / Fedora
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tangogps-0.7.98-2.i386.rpm
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You need to install libcurl3 on SuSE, too.
On Fedora you need to make a symlink from libcurl4 to libcurl3:

ln -s /usr/lib/libcurl.so.4  /usr/lib/libcurl.so.3

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eeePC
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The debian package should install on the eeePC too. I would like to get feedback from somebody having an eeePC:

dpkg -i tangogps_0.7.98_i386.deb

should do the trick.

Quoting from a mail John Locke wrote to the Openmoko mailing list:
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"Fantastic work on TangoGPS--it's seen more use than anything else on my
Neo... and today I just tested out the tracking feature, following
Marcus's instructions to upload my map to openstreetmap.org for some
trails in a local park... great fun!

That brings up a question, though--when my contributions reach the map,
how do I refresh the maps I've already downloaded? Is there a setting to
make TangoGPS check to see if there's a newer version of a tile? I'm not
set up for GPRS, and I've got quite a few tiles downloaded to the sd
card I'd rather not lose..."

That was 58 minutes ago and I really did not intend to make a release tonight. I rather intended to go to sleep. But hey, such a great feedback deserves an answer and here it is: Version 0.7.98 - featuring the many times wished for pre-download of areas.
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You can fetch up to six zoom levels deeper the current visible map. Old tiles will be refreshed.
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Other features / improvements:

• friends are now shown with little icons instead of green spot
  (see screenshot)
• mutlithreading bug in friend function removed
  (could sometimes freeze part of the UI)
• correct handling of the tilde as part of directory in the config
• several minor things

Download

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tangogps_0.7.98-r1_armv4t.ipk - Openmoko
tangogps0.7.98 - binary with the usual caveats
tangogps-0.7.98.tar.gz - tarball
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Comments welcome!

The first page update in the documentation section is out, a quick guide how to use tangoGPS to improve Openstreetmap:
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Howto-contribute-to-OpenStreetMap

I am pleased to announce version 0.7.7

New features:

• OnScreenDisplay of speed
• track is now a line
• positional cursor
• number of running tile downloads info in status bar
• perl script to convert tracklogs directly to .osm files

Under the hood:

• fixed memory leak introduced with 0.7.6
• code clean up = zero compiler warnings now!

Tested on the snapshot of 27th of march. You need to -force the install of gpsd. Other than that installs and runs w/o problem.

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Download:

openmoko package
tarball
i386-binary

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A new release with again lots of improvements. Major new feature is track logging. You can switch logging on and off and split logfiles with a single click - very helpful i.e. for mapping for Openstreetmap, or geocoding photos. A script is available to convert the track log into GPX format for further processing.
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Furthermore our non-metric friends will be happy to hear that you can switch to miles as display units.
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Altitude gets finally displayed - this was a bug in libgpsd which I have subsituted with my own code. Thus no more dependency during runtime. The desktop binary runs now on more distributions out of the box.
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More robustness in the code, some crashers removed (when creating new repositories, during tile download)
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Bigger buttons for easier finger use, some more UI and code clean up.
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Note: the .ipk package name changed from tangoGPS to tangogps. If you have a prior version installed, then remove it with "ipkg remove tangoGPS".
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Update:

You need to have flashed a fairly recent image, otherwise you will have some missing dependencies - notably pango and libcrypt. I will set up a package repository somewhen the next days so that if an ipkg upgrade does not install them, you can get them from tangogps.org. It is known to work with:

uImage-2.6.24+svnr4194-r4165-r3-neo1973.bin
OpenMoko-openmoko-devel-image-glibc-ipk-P1-Snapshot-20080319-fic-gta01.rootfs.jffs2

tangoGPS 0.7 is out! Lots of improvements, more stability, a friend finder function. The tripmeter now features trip time, maximum and average speed plus start/stop button turning your Neo into a cool sports companion!

Check it out it while it's hot!