Sine Nomine Software at ROUGOL, Mon 17th July 2023

The next meeting of the RISC OS User Group Of London is:

Sine Nomine Software, presented by Matthew and Hilary Phillips

Monday 17th July 2023, 7.45pm

The Duke of Sussex
(upstairs in the Chichester or Petworth Room from 6.30pm)
23 Baylis Road, London, SE1 7AY
http://www.rougol.jellybaby.net/venue.html

Also online via Zoom from 7.30pm

https://rougol.jellybaby.net/meetings/

This month we will be joined, online from Durham, by Hilary and Matthew Phillips of Sine Nomine Software.

Their most famous application is probably RiscOSM. While most people will know it for its vector map display, at which it excels, it is capable of so much more. They will take us through some of its lesser known and more advanced features, including showing how to interact with it from your own programs.

Sine Nomine have themselves produced several addon programs that tie in with RiscOSM. These include Recce which displays location based information, AtoB for route planning, and BusWatch for live tracking of bus routes.

The final(?) part of the RiscOSM family is Nominatim. This application does place and building name lookups on behalf of other programs. This can be done via the command line, wimp messages, or by using it as a plugin. In this latter case Nominatim can embed its lookup field within another program’s window, adding its powerful location features seamlessly to that application.

As if that wasn’t enough, there have also been recent updates to the Impact database, mail merger ImpEmail, and printing tool DrawPrint. Sine Nomine will be happy to answer questions about these and any of their applications for what should be a fascinating evening.

This is a hybrid meeting so you can join us in the pub (the best option!) or online. Those coming to the pub can arrive from 6.30pm for pre-meeting food, drinks and chat, while the Zoom meeting will open at 7.30pm.

(Please also have a think about whether you could help with an Archimedes/RiscPC fix up meeting that we are trying to organise.)

Directions to the venue by car and public transport are on the website:

This meeting will also be held online via Zoom, but do join us in the pub if you can! Contact us to receive a link to the meeting. If you have attended any previous meeting, it’s the same link.

https://rougol.jellybaby.net/contacts/

The PoliceData application which I talked about at the meeting is now available to download from our website. The application allows RiscOSM to fetch information about the last month of street crimes reported in an area. It is intended as a BBC BASIC demonstration of how to

• fetch data from a web API using AcornHTTP
• parse simple JSON data
• talk to RiscOSM using the GeoData message protocol

A second application, written in Python, called MapWalker will follow, but some more tidying up is required before that is released.

With PolicData

I get a Serching Crimes window come up and it locks the computer up

ARMX6

RISC OS 5.29 (21 Dec 22)

Thanks.

Sorry about that! What map area had you started from? Try a relatively small area and see if that works any better.

Apologies: that first release was faulty owing to an untested late change. A new version, 1.01, is now up on the web site.

That works and is very quick