The news are out now – tangoGPS has been forked.
tangogps is an easy to use, fast and lightweight mapping application for use with or without GPS. (tangoGPS web site)
FoxtrotGPS is an offshoot of Marcus Bauer’s excellent tangoGPS application, with a focus on cooperation and fostering community innovation. (FoxtrotGPS web site)
And it’s all GPL’d (read: ‘free & libre open source software’). Read the full announcement on FOSS-GPS mailing list.
Nothing much to add to that. Now go & check http://www.foxtrotgps.org/, subscribe to the FOSS-GPS mailing list, join the #foxtrotgps IRC channel and let your ideas, contributions and wishes flow! I’d expect the first release to be out soonish so have your Ubuntus, Freerunners and eeePCs ready!
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Hi,
I posted this to the list, but I might as well follow up here too. I am the author of the mapping library osm-gps-map (http://nzjrs.github.com/osm-gps-map/) which I originally developed from the tangoGPS codebase when I forked it a few years ago (for many of the same reasons I suspect you did).
In a totally biased way may I suggest that you use osm-gps-map. In doing this, I suspect you could recreate the whole of tangoGPS UI/app in less than a few thousand lines of C, or a few hundred of python.
John
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Could you guys please elaborate on the reasons for forking TangoGPS code and why it was inevitable?
John: I hope you’ll be answered soon on the FOSS-GPS mailing list
Torsten: Generally because the developer community felt very limited in terms of availability of up-to-date source code, feedback for patches and communication in generally, with other developers. So now we try to focus in developer community building, we have the source code in a public repository and we are willing to discuss the patches on FOSS-GPS mailing list. The future will show what kind of co-existence and patch transit will exist between tangogps and foxtrotgps.
You’re welcome to join us at #foxtrotgps and foxtrotgps.org!