Frequently asked questions
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I don't have a (working) GPS, is there a public gpsd for testing?
In the config tab you can use 88.191.100.245 as GPSD host.
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Can I use other map repositories?
Since 0.9.3 tangoGPS comes with openstreetmap, openaerial and maps-for-free. If you have updated and want to add them to your repositories then do the following steps:
- go to the config tab
- click "New..."
- add a name
- for the URI: "maps-for-free" or "openaerial" (without the qoutes)
- Cache Dir: the place you want to stor the maps
- Click on "Save Repository Configuration"
In general, you can use any map repository which uses a URL like
"http://foo/bar/zoom/x/y" or the inversed version
"http://foo/bar/x/y/zoom".
Example:
Openstreetmap offers a second map repository with differently rendered maps called "Osmarender".
An example tile URL for Osmarender is:
http://b.tah.openstreetmap.org/Tiles/tile/6/32/22.png
If you put in "%d" for the x,y and zoom values you get a generic URI:
http://b.tah.openstreetmap.org/Tiles/tile/%d/%d/%d.png
That's it.
Google uses the inversed version for maps and terrain.
Sample URLs for tiles are (this is public knowledge):
Maps
http://mt3.google.com/mt?v=w2.80&hl=en&x=3&y=5&zoom=13&s=Galile
Terrain
http://mt0.google.com/mt?v=w2p.81&hl=en&x=3&y=5&zoom=13&s=Galile
However, Google maps are copyrighted and probably apart from
academic/fair use this may simply not be legal (and I'm not a lawyer).
Thus they work, but ask a lawyer before using google
maps in your country. Much better: help out the openstreetmap.org
project!
Other cool maps are openpistemap and opencylemap.
How can I get Openmoko Neo1973's gllin (not Freerunner) to write the NMEA logs to the SD-card?
On the Neo you can make a symlink to
write them to the SD-card instead of your phones flash memory:
rmdir /home/root/gllin/log
mkdir /media/card/log
ln -s /media/card/log
/home/root/gllin/log
However, since the new Tracklog feature you rather use this instead of the nmea log files.
How do I replay my trips?
You can use the nmea logfiles from gllin or any other GPS to replay your trip.
Once you have logfiles copy them per scp to your desktop and start
gpsfake (part of the
gpsd package) like so:
gpsfake -b -c 0.1 -o "-n -N" -r
"r" logfile_to_replay.log
and change the "GPSD Host" in the config of tangogps to 192.168.0.200.
Voila!
Is develepment going on?
Short answer: Yes, very actively
Why tangoGPS?
I started with alphaGPS, went up the alphabet and liked
tangoGPS most, not to forget: the
domain was still free and seemingly free of trademark collisions.
#1 - Pavel Machek 2008-06-13 13:12 - (Reply)
OpenAerial support seems easy, just enter http://tile.openaerialmap.org/tiles/1.0.0/openaerialmap-900913/%d/%d/%d.jpg into the url bar. I could not get google to work.
#2 - marcus 2008-06-13 13:41 - (Reply)
Thanks for figuring that out!
#3 - KrisAbsinthe 2008-07-06 04:41 - (Reply)
It would be sweet if you could add the ability to message people on the friends map.
#4 - Liorithiel 2008-08-10 15:53 - (Reply)
Is there a bugtracker or mailing list for TangoGPS? I wanted to post this, but I had no idea where.
This is a style file for gpsbabel with definition of tangogps track logs. With this saved as tangogps.style, you can convert logs into f.e. nmea or kml (googleearth) formats with `gpsbabel -i xcsv,style=tangogps.style -o kml -f file.log -F file.kml`
DESCRIPTION TangoGPS 0.92
EXTENSION log
DATATYPE TRACK
FIELD_DELIMITER COMMA
RECORD_DELIMITER NEWLINE
IFIELD LAT_DECIMAL,"","%f"
IFIELD LON_DECIMAL,"","%f"
IFIELD ALT_METERS,"","%f"
IFIELD PATH_SPEED,"","%f"
IFIELD PATH_COURSE,"","%f"
IFIELD GPS_HDOP,"","%f"
IFIELD ISO_TIME,"","%s"
#5 - Petrnek 2008-08-10 23:32 - (Reply)
hey, what a great app!!! :) thank you.
i wonder, how to gpsfake reply tangogps log files? is there a way? perhaps gpsbabel them somehow? thank you
Petr
#6 - marc SAYS:
2009-08-22 14:01 - (Reply)
Hello,
I see some kind of moving maps/background in tangoGPS. Can you include geotiffs??
I have some detailed maps here: 1/10.000
http://users.fulladsl.be/~spb13810/research/ign/frontalier.tar.gz
Thanks!
#6.1 - marc SAYS:
2010-01-17 18:51 - (Reply)
There are geotiffs on
http://libremap.org for US
http://topomaps.eu for Russia, and less detailed for Austria, Germany and Switserland.
#6.1.1 - Marcus 2010-01-19 14:06 - (Reply)
I'd like to have geotiff support but this is quite a lot of development. Nothing I can do in a weekend.
#7 - Brent Wood 2009-08-23 00:43 - (Reply)
Would be great if Geotifs or images with world files could be utilised as background maps, so users could download & make their own maps with FOSS GIS tools
#8 - paul gysler SAYS:
2009-10-09 23:33 - (Reply)
I am so close to getting tango gps to work in Karmic with a Holux M-1200 I can feel it.
In Karmic it is very easy to connect your bluetooth devices and now ask if you would like to use your bluetooth gps for navagational purposes.
But I can't seem to get the gps corrdinates? I think something may be wrong with my default gpsd host id or port.
I just don't know how to find my gpsd info?
I have forums open in ubuntu.
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=8079481#post8079481
#9 - Sape 2009-10-19 21:34 - (Reply)
Display (gpx) track on map?
Is it possible / an idea to display a (gpx) track on the map to indicate the route you want to follow? I recently discovered TangoGPS and I like the simple interface and easy to obtain maps. I haven't tried it yet in reality though.
Until now I used Oziexplorer for holiday trips. I like the way how it handles multiple tracks on a map. I normally create the routes with Firefox plug-in GMapToGPX and Google Maps. Ozie can load these tracks and in the mean time log your actual route.
#9.1 - marcus 2009-11-25 16:32 - (Reply)
First implementation of this is in release 0.99.1
#10 - SysOp 2009-11-26 11:33 - (Reply)
Hi,
thanks for this nice app!
Why is the zoom factor limited to 17?
#11 - Petr Dlouhý 2010-01-17 14:39 - (Reply)
Yes, I would also welcome if maximal zoom level could be set per map source.
#12 - Gregor 2010-01-17 16:11 - (Reply)
TangoGPS is just great...
What I wonder: If I go somewhere where there is no Internet connection available, and I downloaded a bunch of .img files on my hard drive / SD card / whatever, how do I tell tangoGPS that I want it to use those files? Setting the directory as URI didn't work though (blank map). Would be great if someone solved this problem and told about here :-)
#12.1 - Marcus 2010-01-17 16:35 - (Reply)
What do you mean with .img files? Do you have any example?
#12.1.1 - Gregor 2010-01-17 19:48 - (Reply)
Hi Marcus, thanks for the quick reply.
Sure I can tell. Those files were downloaded from Lambertus at http://garmin.na1400.info/routable.php
The download files are .img files, which are (regarding file) identified as
x86 boot sector, code offset 0x0
E.g., the biggest part of Hamburg, Germany is in file 63240492.img
Now, I have no idea how to handle that. I thought I can either create tiles from those data offline and copy the files to a memory card to have them available or tangoGPS even could use those data as is. Do you know if this idea even might work? Probably lots cheaper than being online all day in a foreign country from a mobile basis...
Ideas very welcome, also the hint that I am up to something impossible; saves me another 10 hours searching ;-)
#12.1.1.1 - Marcus 2010-01-19 14:08 - (Reply)
That's the same as with geotiff support. I would like to have it but this needs a good deal of development.
#12.1.1.2 - marc SAYS:
2010-01-26 07:21 - (Reply)
I think there is software that can put together .img tiles; Isn't that Mapsource?? It can be installed without license, see openstreetmap somewhere...
Works under wine, linux.
Marc
#13 - Vince 2010-01-24 19:05 - (Reply)
Where on the disk is repository info stored? I found the dir ~/.tangopgs, but it was empty. I added some repositories I would like to remove, but there does not seem to be an option through the tangoGPS GUI.
Thanks in advance,
Vince
#13.1 - Marcus 2010-01-25 23:58 - (Reply)
The configuration is stored in gconf. You can use gconf-editor and your will find it in /apps/tangogps.
#14 - marc SAYS:
2010-02-10 21:31 - (Reply)
If it is for georeferenced maps, like geotifs, I guess the Hugo software can be "studied/copied", found here:
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/science/cartography/!INDEX.html
Thanks,
Marc
#14.1 - marcus bauer 2010-02-14 20:33 - (Reply)
Geotiffs would be a nice to have in tangogps...
#15 - Jacob 2010-04-27 14:37 - (Reply)
Great tool!
Is there a guideline for installing GPS Haicom HI-204III-USB on my EeePC.
Or does anyone has experience with the same problem?
Greetz from Holland
#16 - Marc SAYS:
2010-04-30 17:39 - (Reply)
Haicom: do you have the right cable from the PS/2 like plug to usb?? Because it is NOT a PS/2, but looks like ...
I bought a Gisteq at expansys.be (or .nl) for about 30 euros.
Marc
#17 - Mike 2010-04-30 21:16 - (Reply)
TangoGPS works perfect on my dell laptop, and i have the full map of ontario downloaded so i can go without an internet connection, my question will there ever be turn by turn navigation?
#18 - Cyril 2010-06-08 17:09 - (Reply)
"...In general, you can use any map repository which uses a URL like "http://foo/bar/zoom/x/y" or the inversed version "http://foo/bar/x/y/zoom". ..."
What is the standard supported by Tangogps? Dose this correspond to MapServer repository format?
#19 - marcus 2010-06-25 16:48 - (Reply)
tangoGPS supports the openstreetmap and google formats. MapServer can AFAIK be configured to support tangoGPS.
#20 - bob SAYS:
2010-07-22 15:11 - (Reply)
What is the latest google maps satellite image URL?
#20.1 - marcus bauer 2010-07-22 15:56 - (Reply)
hello bob,
http://khm.google.com/kh/v=65&x=%d&y=%d&z=%d
should work. hope that helps
marcus
#20.1.1 - Bob 2010-07-22 16:02 - (Reply)
Thanks for the quick reply, it worked and i now have the latest image, but in my map types list i have other old maps some that dont work is there anyway i can remove and clean up my list?
#20.1.1.1 - marcus bauer 2010-07-23 08:33 - (Reply)
you can use gconf-editor, the key is
/apps/tangogps/repos