Here's how MapsOnUs says to get to the restaurant in San Francisco tomorrow night:



Note how it assumes I can fly.

That's taking shortest route between two points a little too literally...

- Trevor

It's not that I have any trouble following the written directions at the restaurant's web site. I just like playing with the GPS software. Too bad we can't supply it with good data.

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It's not that I have any trouble following the written directions at the restaurant's web site. I just like playing with the GPS software. Too bad we can't supply it with good data.

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Uhm.. wait.. Tony..
You can't fly?

The way I drive, it's like flying.. As long as people stay off sidewalks, I'm fine.

Me.

Well, I can, but never first class.

Uhm.. wait.. Tony..
You can't fly?

Nah, he figured that walking on water was all he would ever need...

uh...I believe the Lord has exclusive rights to hydroperambulation.

Hmmm. I guess I will stick with my GPS V a little while longer.

uh...I believe the Lord has exclusive rights to hydroperambulation.

Funny, I don't see anything about walking on water in his profile. There should be.

I guess I will stick with my GPS V a little while longer.

That's what I want: That data, downloaded to GPSapp instead of to the Garmin.

Someone should find a way to make the GPSapp emulate the garmin. I doubt it would be too hard.

To keep garmin from beating us up, we should somehow make it so you have to own a garmin product that comes with the maps.

Yang pointed me to a program that emulates a Garmin.. then use whatever program you use to get the data into the Garmin and this will output a .RTE file with the route information the program uploaded. This .RTE file has all the waypoints on the route and their latitude longitude location, so it would not be hard to write a program to get this into a format the parse_maponus script would understand.
Problem though: The route waypoint names really suck since Garmin has a limit of like 3 characters on waypoint names. Another problem: Depending on what program you use to download the information to your Garmin, the route shape points may not be available (route shape points are points that define the road shapes). Either that or the emulator does not display them.
I'm working on a system to get around these two restrictions with Delorme Street Atlas since it lets you export the route waypoint names and the route shape points to a text file. Haven't had much time to work on it though with my classes starting again though..

so it would not be hard to write a program to get this into a format the parse_maponus script would understand.

Or if you're going to write a translator, simply write it to go straight into GPSapp's format.

I leave the walking-on-water duties to my brother, "J.C." (really!), and my first-cousin "Bernie".

Cheers

I was just checking directions to the restaurant, and decided to check mapsonus for the hell of it. I really like how the "driveway" goes from the freeway to the restaurant.

Matthew