Finally the G1 hit the german market. Though it looks a bit like my Nokia N810, the screen resolution of 480 x 320 is just to low for really viewing webpages or (more important) maps when biking.
I’m still very curious about the successor of the N810. It will be driven by Maemo 5. The SDK is officially available for Maemo developers, so some details about the future hardware leaked.
I’ve just written a small Ruby script which can convert GPX waypoints to a sqlite database file to be used in MaemoMapper. The next time I get surprised by some rainy clouds while riding my bike in the forests, I will at least know where the next shelter can be found:
If you need some material to play with the script, I have just updated the POIs for europe as well. Hope you like it.
The Linux Audio Conference, which formerly took place in Karlsruhe, Berlin and Cologne, will leave Germany in 2009 and take place in Parma, Italy. If you plan to attend, book your flights now. If you need a GPX XML file for your GPSr, you can easily get it from openrouteservice.
There is no programme on the website yet, but it should follow during the next couple of weeks.
I just updated the POIs for Europe. The archive contains 847.348 POIs in 163 categories. Those are wrapped in 163 GPX waypoint files and one huge GPI file for direct use in your Garmin GPSr. Have fun!
For personal requirements, I wanted to convert some POIs in GPX format to a SQLite database file. I did it in Ruby, which was my very first Ruby code ever. It turned out to be not that difficult, though Ruby (object orientation aside) is different compared to C++. The code I wrote, however, is not much object oriented; instead it looks more like C-code or a bash script containing lots of functions. Nevertheless it does the job.
Exceptionally, a post in german language. Sorry for any inconvenience!
Auch wenn ich hier in Baden als Zugezogener gelten muss, ist mir die badische Sprache nicht sonderlich fremd; im Gegenteil bin ich immer wieder verblüfft, wie ähnlich sie meinem Heimatdialekt doch ist.
An eine Redewendung jedoch konnte ich mich bisher nicht gewöhnen. Egal ob beim Bäcker, beim Metzger oder in sonst einem Ladengeschäft, man wird nach Abschluss der geschäftlichen Formalitäten (Tausch der Ware gegen Geld) gerne mit der Formel »Schöner Tag!« verabschiedet.
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