GmapCatcher
gmapcatcher HAS to be the most awesome thing I’ve seen around so far! It allows google maps to run offline by downloading all the areas you browse using its own browser (not you internet browser). Its still very fresh stuff (released less than a month?) and is written in python. Haha.. its times like this I’m glad I take CS2106. The stuff I do in the terminal for that module is so helpful here. I also realise when the code is open source, I can pretty much do whatever I want with it. Whats more, its really quite a short program and is still quite intuitive to read even though its in a foreign language.
Going to try to make it start at a higher zoom level and centered on Singapore on my own. I wanna use it when (not if) I get lost while driving. Its so much faster than a street directory. I’ve downloaded almost everything up to the second largest zoom level already. That required soooooo much mousework. Worth it I guess.