GPS Mapping without internet connection
I recently upgraded my Laptop from Windows XP to Ubuntu 12.04 and would like to install my Microsoft Street and Trip with GPS or some other program that will run without internet on Ubuntu. If anyone ...
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I use maps from the Open Street Map project on my iOS devices with an app called City Maps 2Go Pro, and that still falls way short of Streets and Trips for real-time navigation use. I don't know of an equivalent for the Ubuntu world, that is a much smaller market. In the world of open source, freeware, even payware, someone needs a really strong personal drive to create an application, or there has to be a financial incentive, which often is just not there. There are lots of GPS, GIS, and mapping tools in the open source world, for a programmer to put something together, but nothing I know of ready to use.
You would likely be better off using a dedicated navigation GPS, or a GPS navigation app on a smartphone. There are several available, including brands like Garmin and TomTom, one of which loads and stores the map data, as well as Google Maps which downloads as you go.
I've taken two computers over to the Ubuntu world, I just don't have the expectation that I can use them to do everything I can do on my Microsoft or Apple OS computers, which also have mutually exclusive capabilities.
There are also things I do in the Ubuntu world that I cannot do with Windows or Mac, simply because the open source development model provides practical immunity from copyright laws that limit what can be developed for corporate-owned computing platforms.
When you choose an OS, you open some doors. When you choose just one, you close others.
You would likely be better off using a dedicated navigation GPS, or a GPS navigation app on a smartphone. There are several available, including brands like Garmin and TomTom, one of which loads and stores the map data, as well as Google Maps which downloads as you go.
I've taken two computers over to the Ubuntu world, I just don't have the expectation that I can use them to do everything I can do on my Microsoft or Apple OS computers, which also have mutually exclusive capabilities.
There are also things I do in the Ubuntu world that I cannot do with Windows or Mac, simply because the open source development model provides practical immunity from copyright laws that limit what can be developed for corporate-owned computing platforms.
When you choose an OS, you open some doors. When you choose just one, you close others.
