Showing posts with label google maps. Show all posts
Showing posts with label google maps. Show all posts

Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Poor Man's GPS

Yeah, I know.  I really gotta go back and finish up some of the stuff I started.  But hey, sometimes you just gotta take the easy pickins.  My setup at home is still a mess, but I finally got a PC with Windows 7 on it at work.  So I naturally  wanted to test some things.  One of those things was VirtualBox, so I figured maybe I could start that up with quickie test of the IZ2S builder VM.  And coincidentally I'd just stumbled upon a picture of the PSP-Maps program running in glorious 320x240 pixels on the Caanoo.  Turned out all I needed was a few makefile tweaks to get it built for IZ2S.  And it seems to run ok too.  Woo-hoo!  Google maps on the zipit!

I tweaked the button mappings a bit so you can press the Zipit key and type a location with the keyboard. The arrow keys pan.  The +- volume keys zoom.  The <> keys toggle various map display modes.  And the Escape key brings up the menu. 

I was able to pan and zoom into NYC without any trouble, so I'd say it's useful already.  Here it is.

pspmaps-iz2s.zip
iz2s_libs.zip
IZ2S Makefile.

Source code
Tutorial