Month: September 2012

What you have to have: – JOSM + LiveGPS plugin – android SDK – TetherGPS on you android phone.

1: Start TetherGPS and connect the phone using USB cable (turn on “Debugging” – it’s in settings) 2: Type: adb tcp:2947 tcp:2947 – this forwards port 2947 from your phone to your computer. “adb” is part of Android SDK 3: Open JOSM (with LiveGPS pugin) and Click in the main menu LiveGPS->Autocenter

That’s all. As soon as you mobile phone gets GPS fix JOSM will start updating your location on the map! You can save the track and help improving OpenStreetMap

That’s how it looks:

I made a simple helper for setting OLED icons on Intuos4 tablets. It can be cloned from here:

git clone git://github.com/PrzemoF/i4oled.git

The helper accepts PNG images (64 x 32, 8-bit/color RGBA, non-interlaced) and it uses only red channel from the PNG file. There are some example icons in icons/ directory. The kernel patch mentioned in ‘usage’ option is not yet ready for release, but ‘-s’ (scramble) option should allow to use i4oled with any kernel with wacom OLED support.

Please test and report back – I have only Intuos4 Wireless tablet, so i4oled hasn’t been tested on any other model.

I’m waiting for reports if it works with the whole Intuos4 family – I’m going to implement an option for setting OLED icons as part of the button mapping in the wacom panel in gnome system settings.

UPDATE [11 Sep 2012]: now the helper renders text using pango/cairo. It’s still rough on edges, so be careful! That’s how it looks on Intuos4 Wireless:

UPDATE [4 Oct 2012] v1.0 is out, scrambling is now default

I found out that OLEDs on my Intuos4 Wireless are actually 4-bit colour instead of 1-bit. I don’t know (yet) a method of setting 4-bit icons over bluetooth, but I have a proof that it can be done over USB. The proof:

It’s close up of one of the OLED displays on Intuos4 Wireless connected with USB cable.