Dear all, Sorry for an off-topic question. It seems not completely irrelevent to me to ask it here because we all share more or less the same computer environemnt, so something that works for one person may be appreciated by another one.
I am looking for two kind of tools. 1. Computing routes. I'd like to do it off-line. Basically, I'd like to give address of departure and arrival and get as an output the precise route. I know that there are many systems doing that around, including e.g. Google maps, but one thing I'm missing from these systems is that they don't say e.g. how many roads one will have to cross before, say, turning right. So one classical hint may be that you have to turn left in 300 meters, but what I really would like to know is that it is going to be the third road and that I hence have to cross two roads. 2. Exploring maps. It is again for off-line use. I'd like to start from a given address and explore crossings as if I'd be walking. So at each crossing I'd be able to know which roads do cross at that point and then make a decision to follow one road until the next crossing. i'd also like to know how the addresses evolve as I progress. Any help on these would be more than appreciated. I own an old dedicated GPS system which used to do these things but now hardly turns on and whose user interface is so impractical that it could be used while teaching user interfaces as a counter examples of things one should absolutely avoid doing. Many thanks in advance, Shérab. _______________________________________________ This message was sent via the BRLTTY mailing list. To post a message, send an e-mail to: BRLTTY@mielke.cc For general information, go to: http://mielke.cc/mailman/listinfo/brltty
