MapThis: A WIP From Deniska

Posted Jun 14, 2006 at 1:48AM by QJ Staff Listed in: Homebrew Development Tags: Deniska, GPS, Lost, MapThis, Mouse, usb

Deniska is taking a break from his porting projects to create an application that will be of help to those people who get lost easily or those who'll find themselves in a foreign territory this summer. Codename MapThis is a work in progress that will serve as a portable map viewer for the PSP.

The turnout of this project is currently very buggy but deniska says the final product will allow users to scroll through a 3100x2500 map that covers more or less a 52 square mile area with city level details. A zoom-out will also be squeezed into the current project. Serving as a travel guide, MapThis will also include an access area's attraction info, including the name, address, and phone number; currently, deniska has managed to put in restaurants into the app.

Mapping to GPS coordinates will also be one feature of MapThis, allowing the possibility of external GPS feed. Deniska says that one map with all the attraction data will take only take about 1MB of space on MS. MapThis will also come with "a linux/cygwin script to generate map tiles and data from public sources for given address. The script can be wrapped in to a cgi wrapper and therefore turned in to a web service."

Since the project is still currently being developed, deniska will be needing some help. As he would want to "create a USB driver, so it can be plugged in w/o soldering", if anyone is willing to lend him a USB-based GPS mouse for his experiments or if anyone wants to work on the GPS communication part, just contact deniska.

Via deniska

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Comments

# 2.7? — Guest 2006-06-13 20:48

does this work on 2.7 seeing as 2.7 has signs of a GPS output

# @1 — Guest 2006-06-13 21:31

i doubt it, it said it uses cygwin and linux and those are both for homebrew but isnt there one heading to later verions?

# think of the posibilities — Guest 2006-06-13 22:38

This could get even better

If devhook ever gets an emulated version of 2.7 working because im sure if booster can get isos selectable in the emulated firmware he can also eventually get eboots runable. Hell you could probably rebuild this as an iso when its complete and run it that way.

But I digress my point was if 2.7 becomes decrypted because it has gps drivers built in with some modification you could probably use this in combination with devhok and be able to use sonys gps adaptor when they bring it out.

But this sounds like this is going to be an awsome app even if this doesnt happen. Good work man

# - — funetik 2006-06-13 23:13

Look at http://forums.ps2dev.org/

There's next to no chance to get a usb gps working. Might be worth looking at Art's gps that used the serial port. To find out how he implemented the programming and gps.

Good luck..

# Good Luck — Guest 2006-06-14 00:19

This sounds like an awesome project, and of course yet another practical application to the PSP's list (which Sony could be doing a better job with - ie. no document/pdf or text support, err doh). Wish you the best of luck with it Deniska.

# to #1&2 — Guest 2006-06-14 01:46

It would not work for 2.7

cygwin/linux script runs on your PC (not PSP) to generate map data for later use with the application.

# to #4 — Guest 2006-06-14 02:17

You are probably right :-(

but then again there is always "serial port" solution, which is a bit ugly but doable..

# wow — Guest 2006-06-14 02:31

i was waiting for a map program cause i always get lost in my car going places!

when you get the bugs out and it works let us know asap!

or email me at warmaster89@gma il.com

im very intrested in this

# Big up — Guest 2006-06-14 06:23

big up ya chest deniska, good job.

# dont get this.... — Guest 2006-06-14 07:00

dont turn your psp into a portable tracking device especially if you use pirated software...

# to # 10 — Guest 2006-06-14 07:41

sorry but it looks like you composing senctenses with terms that you don't understand :-)...

navigation != tracking

homebrew/free != pirated

Noone ever talked here about tracking or pirating in this article

and .. If you afraid of tracking, you better dump your cell phone asap ;-)

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