I added a little POC for a minimalist Locus Maps integration. All known nodes are displayed in Locus Maps as POIs. I personally like Locus for it’s excellent support of various open source maps.
If anybody likes the idea feel free to improve it and add what you need
meshtastic:master ← ray0711:master
opened 03:16PM - 20 Jun 21 UTC
On each update of the nodeDb Broadcast the first 1k nodes so that a running Locu… sMaps instance can display them as Map Points. The current state is neither in the perfect place nor perfect but might be a good start.
Things to take into consideration
- Should we litter the MeshService with that or is there a better place where optional code should be located and still called?
- We call the method quite often, any idea of intelligent filtering? To keep this from becoming a battery hog.
- Cleanup on exit? We could send an empty points list
- Configuration? If Locus isn't installed it doesn't hurt anybody but is hust useless
- Alternative import methods (starting locus etc.)
Extra changes: jcenter replaced with maven central since jcenter is deprecated
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