Gpsdrive

This page describes a historic artifact in the history of OpenStreetMap. It does not reflect the current situation, but instead documents the historical concepts, issues, or ideas.

Reason for being historic

This software is not maintained any more. Its website does not exist any more.

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GpsDrive
Authors:	The GpsDrive Development Team, originally by Fritz Ganter
License:	GNU GPL, either v2, or any later version
Platforms:	Linux and macOS
Status:	Broken
Version:	2.12svn2685 (2012-07-21)
Languages:	English, German, Danish, Greek, Spanish, Estonian, French, Galician, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian Bokmål, Dutch, Punjabi, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Swedish, Turkish, Vietnamese, and Chinese
Source code:	https://svn.code.sf.net/p/gpsdrive/code/trunk
Programming language:	C
Image: OpenCycleMap downloaded on the fly
Features Feature Value Map Display Display map yes Map data raster,postgis+mapnik Source online;postgis;cache;offline Rotate map no 3D view no Shows website ? Shows phone number ? Shows operation hours ? Routing Routing no Create route manually ? Calculate route ? Create route via Waypoints ? Routing profiles car;bike;foot Turn restrictions ? Calculate route without Internet (Offline routing) ? Routing providers ? Avoid traffic ? Traffic Provider ? Navigating Navigate yes Find location ? Find nearby POIs ? Navigate to point ? Navigation with voice / Voice guidance ? Keep on road ? Lane guidance ? Works without GPS yes Navigate along predefined route ? Tracking Make track yes Customizable log interval ? Track formats ? Geotagging ? Fast POI buttons ? Upload GPX to OSM ? Monitoring Monitoring yes Show current track yes Open existing track yes Altitude diagram yes Show POD value yes Satellite view yes Show live NMEA data yes Show speed ? Send current position yes Editing ? Rendering ? Accessibility ?

Roundabout needing more OSM edits

GpsDrive is a free GPS navigation system which works on GNU/Linux and several BSD's including Mac OSX. It is free software licensed under the GPL. The main website is at http://www.gpsdrive.de.

GpsDrive can render OSM data on the fly as you move along the road. Use osm2pgsql to load a planet.osm file into a PostGIS database and make sure that GpsDrive was built with Mapnik support. In the 'Map Control' window enable 'Mapnik mode' and you're away.

If you don't want to go to the trouble of setting up a PostGIS database, you can also download Tiles@Home, OpenCycleMap, and NASA LANDSAT backdrops for your current location, or by using an included script along a chosen route or prior GPX track.

• More screenshots of GpsDrive + Live OSM in action

• Grab version 2.11 or newer, preferably build from the latest SVN. (Tiles@Home map projections were fixed after 2.10pre7 was released)

See Also

• wikipedia:GpsDrive
• wikipedia:de:GpsDrive