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NAME

       road, gps - road map of the United States

SYNOPSIS

       games/road [ -g ] [ -s scale ]
       games/gps

DESCRIPTION

       Road  displays a road map centered around some specified place in the United States.  The data comes from the Census Bureau Tiger Database.
       The map is drawn in three shades of grey.  Light grey is used for water features such as rivers, streams and lakes.  Dark grey is used  for
       railroads and airports.	Black is used for roads.  On terminals with ldepth zero, all shades appear black.

       Without	options,  the center of the map is the latitude and longitude specified in the file /lib/sky/here.  If the -g option is given, the
       center of the map will be the latitude and longitude specified by continually monitoring the end of the file  /tmp/gpslog.   This  file	is
       written	by the GPS satellite receiver program gps.  With this option, and with gps running, road becomes a moving map display suitable for
       cars or planes.

   Keyboard commands
       s number
	      sets the scale of the map to number.  The number can be prefixed with + or - to increase/decrease the current  scale.   Scale  6	is
	      about  one mile across the screen and scale 10 is about ten miles across.  Scales 1 through 10 are drawn with maximum detail showing
	      all roads, trails, rivers, streams and airports.	Scales 11 through 14  show  highways,  rivers,	airports  and  county  boundaries.
	      Scales 15 through 20 show interstate highways and state boundaries.

       /regexp
	      All features labeled by text matching the regular expression are highlighted.

       p place
	      centers  the  map at the specified place.  Usually the place must have the associated state code, (eg murrayhill,nj) but places like
	      lax and ewr are also known.

       l latitude longitude
	      centers the map at the specified coordinate.

       g      toggles the -g option described above.

       q      Exit.

   Mouse button commands
       Button 1
	      displays the text of the line nearest the cursor.  Normally this is the name of a street or river.

       Button 2
	      displays the text of the place nearest the cursor.  Normally this is a town.

       Button 3
	      centers the display on the cursor position.

       Gps reads /dev/eia0 assumed connected to a Garmin GPS-55 satellite receiver and writes  the  current  location  on  the	end  of  the  file
       /tmp/gpslog.  It is intended to be used with mobile PC's.

FILES

       /lib/roads/LLLL/LLLLGGGG.h
	      scale 1-10 database files where LLLL is the latitude multiplied by 5 and GGGG is the longitude multiplied by 5.

       /lib/roads/LLL/LLLGGG.h
	      scale 11-14 database files where LLL is the latitude multiplied by 1 and GGG is the longitude multiplied by 1.

       /lib/roads/LL/LLGG.h
	      scale 15-20 database files where LL is the latitude multiplied by 0.2 and GG is the longitude multiplied by 0.2.

       /lib/roads/place
	      /lib/roads/place.local are the translations between place names and locations.  These files must be sorted.

       /lib/sky/here
	      default starting map center.

       /tmp/gpslog
	      moving map location.

SOURCE

       /sys/src/games/road
       /sys/src/games/gps

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