[Roadster] Introduction

[Matthew Vaughn]

My name is Matt Vaughn, and I'm a bioinformatics analyst at Cold  
Spring Harbor Laboratory. That work is totally unrelated to my new  
interest in geographical information systems, including real-time GPS  
mapping. I'm the proud owner of a Magellan eXplorist 210 which I've  
had great fun interfacing to my Powerbook. I do open-source  
development on the BioPerl and Generic Model Organism Database  
projects and use a ton of other free/open tools in my daily work, so  
I'm keenly interested in extending this approach to realtime mapping  
by getting Roadster and and running for myself.

Since I use Mac OS X as my desktop environment, I initially hope to  
get Roadster functional under Xfree86. However, I see that Cairo has  
Quartz and ATSUI support under development and GTK+2.8 is being  
ported to Mac OS X as well, so the long-term goal on my part is to  
work towards an OSX-native implementation of Roadster.

That said, I've run into some issues getting Roadster to build which  
I am having trouble solving. But, I will detail those in a separate  
email. For now, let me say it's a pleasure to meet you all.

Cheers,

Matt