GPS Map Viewer for PSP Released

DCEmu writes "Deniska has released a GPS Map Viewer for the PSP. The program uses imagery from Google Maps, which currently has pretty good coverage of North America, Western Europe, Australia, Japan. There's also a video on YouTube." According to the post, map data can be retrieved via WiFi or an external GPS receiver. This story selected and edited by LinuxWorld editor for the day Saied Pinto.

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Now, you see

[FireballX301]

This is why I like the PSP platform - versatility.

None of the games that came out for it are worth their cost and the cost of upgrading my 1.5 firmware. No thanks, I like being able to do awesome stuff like this on a high res handheld. Music, video, emulation, and all the homebrew you can ever imagine.

Now, Sony, if you pulled your face out of your ass and stopped trying to screw the homebrew community over, maybe the PSP could have sold more units.

Re:GPS reciver?

[FireballX301]

Quoted:

- GPS support: ability to read and interpret NMEA sentences from a GPS receiver communicating through PSP's serial port. Rather simple DYI hook up with GPSlim 236 receiver from Holux is explained in following thread: http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t= 30035

RTFA.

Why a GPS enabled PSP?

[crazyjeremy]

Aww, yes... for that large "handheld gaming/gps self-positioning" demographic. Glad that group is good with serial ports, cause they're going to need to fall back on that to get active GPS data to the device.

I know exactly where we are!

[ackthpt]

We're halfway between a bunch of mushrooms with a plumber jumping around on them and a checkered landscape full of gold rings a hedgehog is running around trying to collect.

Well, maybe some kids will take a break from playing games to do some GeoCaching.

RTFA or shup up, go away, get help

[maggard]

I have not RTFA

Then why are you posting?

Are you one of those obnoxious kids who couldn't wait for the teacher to finish saying something before yelling out what you thought would be the answer?

Are you still so socially stunted?

Have you considered medication to help control this compulsion? Some sort of course in effective communication? Learning to sit on your hands?

Seriously, shut up. Go away. You're not contributing signal, you're noise.

Is this a troll? No, it's communicating to the too-quick-to-post asshats to actually skim (at least!) the damn article so they don't continually burp up inanities. It might be off-topic, but then anything that begins with "I have not RTFA" was pretty much assured to be that to begin with...

Re:RTFA or shup up, go away, get help

[maggard]

How many people reply on the Slashdot forums and don't read the articles but just want to talk and interact?

Yes dear, they're called "boors": Folks who can't be bothered to make the least effort to inform themselves before imposing on others to do so for them.

They're self-indulgant parasites, taking up space but contributing little of value, indeed actively degrading the quality of conversation. They're why moderation systems are now so popular, and why unmoderated environments like usenet are now largely wastelands.

"Talk & interact" is an admirable, if limited, goal for a child's playgroup.

However adults have a higher expectation for interaction, it is called "conversation", and to engage in such one must have a clue as to what one is talking about. To excuse posters from this minimal level of competence, to indulge their social dysfunction, neither benefits the community or those unable to meet this requirement.

Instead setting expectations, giving public feedback, both provides incentive towards socially sucessful interaction and dissuades antisocial "I want to make noise" masturbation. Hopefully Atlantis-Rising and others who are disinclined to RTFA but insist on posting inanities will learn from this and adopt age-appropriate communication strategies.

Or perhaps this will be the wake-up-call they need to look into medication to control a disorder, develop better skills, simply learn when to not speak unless they have something useful to say.