GSoC 2010/Projects/the Tablet of Adventure

• student: Susanna Huhtanen
• mentor: Henri Bergius
• Project Status: accepted, in development
• Repository: http://github.com/cannonerd/adventure_tablet

Status updates for the project can be found on the blog

Project summary

The Tablet of Adventure is a tool for generating and sharing location-based adventures with Maemo devices. The adventures may be manually created or follow the Geohashing "automatic adventure generator" concept as popularized by the xkcd comic (#426)

Progress

what works

• geohash algorithm
• distance between your location and destination
• osmgps map
• pointers for your location and destination location
• bearing
• selecting between adventures - added hardcoded Malmi adventure until custom adventures are supported
• a finish for a mission

what doesn't

• social features - will be done using Qaiku
• custom adventures (friend race) - adventure editor not implemented
• generate new Geohash at midnight if software is running
• generate neighboring graticules Geohashes (i.e. Helsinki and Vantaa)