GSoC 2010/Projects/the Tablet of Adventure

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

what doesn't

  • bearing - needs some debugging in the mathematics of great circle navigation
  • social features - will be done using Qaiku
  • custom adventures (friend race) - adventure editor not implemented
  • selecting between adventures - selector not implemented