While beeing outside and having a map with the current area right at your hands is great, most of the time we aren't outisde looking for the right track. So that is why we explored alternative uses for the IndiaNavi Device.

One quite obvious usecase is enabling Wifi during Charging. Connected to the internet the ESP32 on the Board is able to get information about pretty much anything. First usecase:

Take the last known GPS Coordinate and get weather data

A great place to get informatio about weather on any place on eath is https://openweathermap.org/. You can get a free API Key that allows you to update your IndiaNavi 1,000,000 times a month!

Show this weeks calendar from Google Calendar

Google Calendar allows you to export your calendar for public access. This URL contains a secret key that allows access. For a similar project you can have a look here https://github.com/kristiantm/eink-family-calendar-esp32

Display the train arrival table from your local Bahnhof

Deutsch Bahn makes their arrivals table for every trainstation available for free. You can get the arrivals for your area from a URL like this: https://api.deutschebahn.com/freeplan/v1/arrivalBoard/8000031?date=2021-11-06T12%3A00%3A00. You can query the API 10 times per minute if you need to.

Have an inspirational Track in your area displayed

I the future we can provide a splash screen image for every track converted on our server. This screen will show information like the Name of the track, the area and a picture of the whole course.
The button can then be used to download the track to the device. But to come to this we still have a lot to do and much more devices to build. If you are interested in the technology or want to talk a bout future plans: Drop us a line navi@platinenmacher.tech