Ask HN: Please, help me to choose a GPS app to develop

2 points by kiruri 15y ago ↗ HN

During my Winter-Spring 2011 Term at the university I have to develop a GPS application (Lin&Win) that helps a user to play geocaching (it must take coordinates in a LOC file and guide a user to find all hidden geocaches).

Since I have to spend my time on it anyway, I want to develop some additional features that will make it useful to the real users. And probably I will publish it under GPL.

So the question is: what GPS application to develop in these 3-4 months?

The most obvious answer is an Android app, but I think there is a lot of geocaching apps already, and new features needed instead.

Or maybe there is a piece of GPS software that has no open source alternatives? I would gladly consider that.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

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bakbak 15y ago ↗

I don't know whether Nokia's Ovi Maps will allow to build something nice but it's a best GPS s/w i've ever used, it is based on vector technology and doesn't need Data plan so any app developed on the top of this platform would be very interesting ...

kiruri 15y ago ↗

Thanks, I will check that.