once again I'm pleased to announce a new version of tangoGPS.
This version is a major milestone as now pretty much everything works right out of the box: by default there are three open and free repositories, openstreetmap for maps, maps-for-free for terrain and openaerial for satellite imagery. The maps are now cached by default in the home directory - no more need to configure this, although you still can do. The screen gets correctly cleared when zooming into an area with no maps - no more garbled screen. And keyboard shortcuts are now integrated for convenient use on laptops / eeePC.
Moreover the website got updated with a new, modern and improved layout, the documentation got extended and a new screencast has been added featuring the current version of tangoGPS.
Cheers to you all! Marcus Bauer
Digest of the changes:
keyboard
shortcuts for convenient use on a laptop or eeePC:
POI entry can be in decimal, minutes
and miutes/seconds, i.e.
47°30'30.5" 47°30.5567' 47.1234567
three repositories by
default
default map directory no longer /tmp but in
home directory
a marker get set when setting your
position manually
a line gets painted from a manual
position to 'this point' for easy distance measuring
missing
tiles get now correctly handled, no more garbled screen
translations: Russian, Finnish, Czech
and many more code improvements...
Here is the new screencast. If you have a fast internet connection, go over to youtube and
watch it in high quality.
tangoGPS,
better than ever - grab a copy now, while it is hot! And spread the word, write in your blog and your favourite forums...
Note to Openmoko users: I suggest you use the official packages together with gpsd. Either the .ipk packages here from tangogps.org (Download section) or the .deb packages directly from Debian. These packages provide stability and support - so far all the problem reports are due to the FSO patched version.
Credits: Pavel Machek (POI lat/lon entry patch), Timo Jyrinki (Finnish), Evgeny Ginzburg (Russian), Petr Vanek (Czech)
However using the old version I noticed some bugs while saving gps traces for OSM: sometimes it happens that tangogps doesn't save some points also if the GPS is currently working.
This is not so good for mapping, you know! What about increasing the tracing priority over all other things?
However thanks again for this GREAT tool!
PS: I've used it on a Freerunner and also another user told me so.
I did "opkg remove tangogps-fso; opkg install tangogps_0.9.3-r1_armv4t.ipk". Everything seemed to go fine, but now I don't have a tangogps launcher icon anymore, using the FSO build. Any ideas?
#1 - Petrnek 2008-08-25 23:28 - (Reply)
new release :) congrats!
Petr
#2 - Treviño SAYS:
2008-08-26 05:12 - (Reply)
Thanks for this release again...!
However using the old version I noticed some bugs while saving gps traces for OSM: sometimes it happens that tangogps doesn't save some points also if the GPS is currently working.
This is not so good for mapping, you know! What about increasing the tracing priority over all other things?
However thanks again for this GREAT tool!
PS: I've used it on a Freerunner and also another user told me so.
#3 - Marcus Bauer SAYS:
2008-08-26 12:04 - (Reply)
tangoGPS logs every point as long as it has a valid fix.
#4 - Chris Ball SAYS:
2008-08-27 23:51 - (Reply)
Cool, new release!
I did "opkg remove tangogps-fso; opkg install tangogps_0.9.3-r1_armv4t.ipk". Everything seemed to go fine, but now I don't have a tangogps launcher icon anymore, using the FSO build. Any ideas?
#4.1 - marcus bauer 2008-09-01 15:56 - (Reply)
Currently I
have no FSO here, thus I'd appreciate your feedback and update the
website accordingly.
Look into /usr/share/applications/tangogps.desktop
and check what (if at all) the other FSO apps have in there.