GpsDrive Features

User Interface:

• The GUI is based on GTK+ 2, and supports unicode and antialiased fonts.
• Customizable Dashboard: Shows various information like speed, position, altitude...
• Sliding controls for preferred map scale.
• Units switchable between statute miles, nautical miles and kilometers.
• Supported languages: german, english, spanish, italian, dansk, dutch, turkish, hungarian, slovak, swedish, japanese and french.
• Autodetects screen size for automatic fitting.
• Keyboard Shortcuts for most used functions.
• Displays battery and temperature if supported by ACPI

Maps:

• GpsDrive uses street maps from the OpenStreetMap project and satellite images from NASA Landsat, which are downloadable from the internet directly or with the included gpsfetchmap.pl script.
• Also a local postgis database can be used to render maps on the fly from OpenstreetMap data with Mapnik.
• Furthermore you can import almost any kind of other maps or pictures with the included import assistant.
• Displayed maps are autoloaded depending on current position, speed, and zoom level.

Friends server:

• People connected to the same friendsd server can see each others' position on the map.
• Messages: You can send instant messages to other people on the same server.

Waypoints/Points of Interest:

• Points of Interest can be stored in a local SQLite database
• The POIs are drawn on the map with a icon depending on the type and a display filter.
• New POIs can be added with a mosueclick or a keyboard shortcut
• Bulk import and backup of POI data: The included poi-manager.pl script lets you easily add waypoint data from a given GPX file.
  Currently supported are GPX files from www.geocaching.com, www.opencaching.de, and www.fon.com.
• Additonal waypoints can be added using a plain text file (without using the database).

Routes and Tracks:

• Routes can be created using existing waypoints or by adding free routepoints via keyboard shortcut.
• The distance, direction and time to go for the destination is shown in the dashboard.
• Your track can be recorded and shown on the map.
• The current route or track can be exported to a GPX file
• Loading of a previously stored track or route is also possible.

Sound Abilities:

• GpsDrive uses Speech Dispatcher speech output.
• Speech output is available in english, spanish and german.
• Speakable information: direction, speed, GPS status, distance to destination, battery level.

Miscellaneous:

• Direct support for wardriving with Kismet(a WLAN detection tool).
  Shows Wireless LAN (WLAN) access points on the map in realtime, including voice information about a new ones.
• Utilizes gpsd for connecting to your GPS device.
• wpget: Script to read waypoints from GARMIN GPS.
• Simulator mode for testing without a GPS device: Select a waypoint and the position marker moves towards it.
• The program gpsreplay replays your stored tracks
• gpssmswatch sends your position back to the phone number which sends an SMS with the content "PLSSENDPOS" (needs a working "gnokii" installation).
• Runs also on Compaq iPAQ.
• License: GPL.
• Status: stable.