news 28 Posted March 20, 2011 Hi Everyone, I am pleased to announce version 0.7.3 of osm-gps-map, a library, python and GObject introspection bindings for displaying raster map data from a variety of different sources. This is a bug fix release. Where to Get It ============ Homepage: * http://nzjrs.github.com/osm-gps-map/ Downloads: * http://www.johnstowers.co.nz/files/osm-gps-map/osm-gps-map-0.7.3.tar.gz * http://www.johnstowers.co.nz/files/osm-gps-map/python-osmgpsmap-0.7.3.tar.gz Documentation: * http://nzjrs.github.com/osm-gps-map/docs/reference/html/index.html What is New ============ * When using the mouse scroll wheel to zoom in, centre on the mouse pointer (as recommended by the HIG) * Doc updates * Bug fixes * Treat 403 errors as missing tiles * Bail if user queues too many tiles to download (DOS) * Limit retries of tile download on unspecified errors * Enforce gtk+-2.14 minimum * Fix Google What Is It ============ osm-gps-map is a Gtk+ widget (plus Python and GObject introspection bindings) for displaying information on a map. It features a simple API for displaying tracks and points from GPS co-ordinates. It Currently supports a number of different mapping sources; * openstreetmap (default) * maps-for-free * satellite maps from a number of proprietary providers It also has the following features; * Excellent performance * Intelligent caching of maps, including the ability to request a specific area of the map to be cached ahead of time * Recording of points of interest on the map (and the ability to add arbitary pixmaps at those points * Drawing and management of multiple GPS track (a line showing the history past added points) * Automatic centering on new GPS points * Adjustable Zoom * Includes comprehensive examples (C, Python, JavaScript) * Simple, flat API * Support for showing additional display layers rendered on top of the map * Optional on screen display (OSD) John Stowers _______________________________________________ Share this post Link to post
