due to famous request, I added 4800 to the BAUD rate drop down menu. This should enable luckyGPS to work with more GPS devices.

Let me know if it also works for you!

thank you for the hint that  QtXml4.dll was  missing in the win32 zip file. I just re-upload the zip file with the missing file.

Thanks to everybody who reported that!

I just released another version on the way to luckyGPS 0.7.

It contains lots of bug fixes and also restored gpsd functionality on linux (kindly provided by debian upstream).

Another improvement is also the route description when loading a route from gpx file. This gets displayed on the bottom of the map.

Last but not least the usual “up to 300% faster” message is in this version as well.

I provided the linux 32 + 64bit and windows 32bit binaries in the download section this time!

Please report any (new) bugs you encounter!

thanks guys (especially Kristaps) for poking on compile errors on win32. I had to exchange the iconv lib and also put some debug libraries in place but the happy news are:

luckygps is working on Windows x32 now!

I have a nice working binary over here, so Windows x32 is added to the supported platforms for the next major release of luckygps!

Supported platforms (as in “tested” and got working binary on my computer) until now:

• Linux 64bit (Ubuntu tested)
• Linux 32bit (Ubuntu tested)
• Microsoft Windows 7 64bit
• Microsoft Windows 7 32bit

UPDATE:
Download the first win32 binary of luckyGPS: luckyGPS 0.7 pre2 win32 (87)

I would like to motivate more people to contribute to luckyGPS so I announce the following contest:

Problem

File: mapwidget.cpp (subversion: revision 101)
Full luckyGPS source of rev 101: luckyGPS 0.7 pre1 source (126)

Function: void MapWidget::paintEvent()

Description: If you drive left/right the map should rotate accordingly so the road is always straight ahead on the map.
This means that the map in the view port should rotate according to the “_degree” variable (which contains the current heading in degree). At the moment the map isn’t centered correctly after rotation, so I commented that code but the ground work is there.

Rules

1. Solution must work for all cases (no “special case” solutions accepted)
2. No hard-coded constants (which would be a “special case” solution)
3. Patch has to be reported at http://code.google.com/p/luckygps/issues/list
4. Must be verified by me
5. First one who got verified and accepted by me will win the reward!

Contest Reward

What would be a contest without reward? The reward will be in value of around € 20 (No cash payment). I was thinking of an iTunes Online Gift Card. If anyone got a better/additional idea regarding the reward please post it in the comments.

Good luck to you!

UPDATE:
Full luckyGPS source code of rev 101 available: luckyGPS 0.7 pre1 source (126)

UPDATE 2:
This contest has been closed.

My plan was to wait with luckyGPS 0.7 until the next release of another important library which luckyGPS is depending on but that takes too long.

That’s why I am about to release luckyGPS 0.7 in some days so I am calling you (whoever compiles luckyGPS from source) to report any bugs you encounter.

Thank you for your support!

Daniel

Thanks to György Balló for this translation

Good news for Microsoft Windows users: I just committed a patch which enables GPS devices also on Windows platform.

This patch should work if your device can output messages according to the NMEA0183 protocol. The COM port settings are still hard-coded (115200, 8,1,no flow, COM# auto-detection) but will be available soon via UI.

Other platforms will also benefit from the changes I made to make this possible. I had to generalize the GPS interface which should make it easier to plug-in other devices/platforms like OpenMoko.

This feature will be available in the upcoming luckyGPS 0.7 release.

People who follow my subversion commit log know it already: 100% speed increase during normal usage which should result in about 70% more battery life of your FreeRunner (OpenMoko) / mobile phone (Symbian)!

This enhancement will be part of the next release of luckyGPS.

it’s a premiere, the first external patch has been provided by “jad zaza”. It enables huge osm files to be imported also on 32bit architecture.

Thanks alot!