GSoC 2010/Projects/the Tablet of Adventure
- student: Susanna Huhtanen
- mentor: Henri Bergius
- Project Status: accepted, in development
- Repository: http://github.com/cannonerd/adventure_tablet
- Package: http://maemo.org/packages/view/adventure-tablet/
- Homepage: http://cannonerd.wordpress.com/the-tablet-of-adventure/
Status updates for the project can be found on the blog
Project summary
The Tablet of Adventure is a tool for generating and sharing location-based adventures with Maemo devices. The adventures may be manually created or follow the Geohashing "automatic adventure generator" concept as popularized by the xkcd comic (#426)
Progress
what works
- geohash algorithm
- distance between your location and destination
- osmgps map
- pointers for your location and destination location
- bearing
- selecting between adventures - added hardcoded Malmi adventure until custom adventures are supported
- a finish for a mission
- social features
- generate new Geohash at midnight
- custom adventures
what doesn't
- generate neighboring graticules Geohashes (i.e. Helsinki and Vantaa)