Re: [Announce] modRana: a flexible GPS navigation system
 

modRana development update: :)

• Wikiwides handmade routing has been merged
• online routing routing now supports waypoint
• modRana now uses a newer Directions API
  • looks like they added public tracport routing in June, so that could be also used in modRan in the future
  • I've also found than bahn.de (the backend used by Fahrplan) seems to do pan-European railway "routing" quite nicely, including nearest station search
• new point2point routing UI that clutters the screen less than the old one
• icon update for search presets
• there was a modrana.org outage on Sunday & Monday caused by a RAID crash, but everything should be now back to normal. :)

Also got modRana running on an ExoPC with Fedora & gnome Shell while on LinuxAlt:
http://www.modrana.org/images/modrana_exopc.jpg
Didn't have to change a single line or install any additional packages, just downloaded the master tarball from Github & started modrana.py.

ModRana detected the Atom powered ExoPC as a desktop computer and automatically used the correct device and GUI modules. :)

Looks like I'll really have to do those packages for Fedora after all. :D

Re: [Announce] modRana: a flexible GPS navigation system
 

hello you all,

I would like to ask for some help: when I launch ModRana, it doesn't load the map on the device. when I launch it from terminal, it says: "process 2497: arguments to dbus_connection_get_data() were incorrect, assertion "connection != NULL" failed in file dbus-connection.c line 5757.
This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library.
process 2497: arguments to dbus_connection_set_data() were incorrect, assertion "connection != NULL" failed in file dbus-connection.c line 5721.
This is normally a bug in some application using the D-Bus library."

what sholud I do to make it work...? I use kernel version 2.6.28.10-power50. thanks in advance,

jm

Re: [Announce] modRana: a flexible GPS navigation system
 

Quick reply...
I usually get this message when attempting to run ModRana as root. When you start ModRana in X-Terminal, it should be done as non-root.
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Re: [Announce] modRana: a flexible GPS navigation system
 

thanks, it works - it starts, but still doesn't load the map (I set it up as written): "tile download failed due to network error". one more information (maybe I sholud have told this earlier): I didn't installed it wia internet connection, I installed only the dependencies' .deb file... so during installation it said: libqtm12 conflicts libqtm12contacts, etc., does not install.

Re: [Announce] modRana: a flexible GPS navigation system
 

Any progress on this ? From the error message, it looks like a network error. Do you have Internet connectivity on your N900 ? ModRana currently needs Internet to download map tiles. Of course you can download the tiles beforehand and then remain offline. :)

The libqtm* are needed by the QML interface and should not be an issue if you run the classic GTK interface.

modRana 0.37.2 has been released !
HOW TO UPDATE modRana MANUALLY
Due to the current autobuilder outage, please install the modRana package from the modRana Fremantle COBS repository manually.

Alternatively you can add the modRana Fremantle COBS repository to your sources and update modRana normally:

Just note that this repository is a bit more bleeding edge than the usual Extras-devel uploads. :)

Also, I've got modRana running on Nemo:
http://www.modrana.org/images/nemo/modrana_qml_1.jpg
http://www.modrana.org/images/nemo/modrana_gtk_4.jpg
See this post for more details and installation instructions.

Re: [Announce] modRana: a flexible GPS navigation system
 

[QUOTE=MartinK;1292957]Any progress on this ? From the error message, it looks like a network error. Do you have Internet connectivity on your N900 ? ModRana currently needs Internet to download map tiles. Of course you can download the tiles beforehand and then remain offline. :)

The libqtm* are needed by the QML interface and should not be an issue if you run the classic GTK interface.


Thanks, MartinK;
yes, yesterday I removed modrana, and than installed it via internet connection; everything went smoothly. I extracted the downloaded map file (zip) to .maps/monav_data. I have the directories of 1. the country, 2. routing bike, 3. routing car, 4. routing pedestrian. I also set modrana to load the on device map, but it still does not load anything... do you have any idea what is wrong...? maybe should I try it with internet connection...? (nowadays it is a bit hard, no wireless nearby)

jm

Re: [Announce] modRana: a flexible GPS navigation system
 

The data packs currently server only for offline routing. Offline map rendering is work-in-progress.

Also regarding offline routing - see the modRana offline routing guide & check out the modRana routing data repository for more up-to-data routing data packs.

If you want to see the map while offline, use the "Download" sub-menu to download map tiles for your desired area while your N900 is online. The tiles will be saved to local storage and will be loaded from it once you are offline & on the way.

If you don't need to share your map tiles with other navigation Apps (Mappero, CloudGPS, Marble (?), etc.) you should consider switching to sqlite tile storage in options->Map->Tile storage, as it consumes much less storage space than the default files tile storage method.

Alternativelly, you can use your PC to download the map tiles by running GMapCatcher or modRana (Linux PC only) and transferring the tile folders to your N900 once done.

Re: [Announce] modRana: a flexible GPS navigation system
 

I noticed that after some update its quite hard to click the onscreen button..? is it just me or is there any way to fix it. I tried to calibrate the touchscreen but still the same. Thanks and sorry for bad english.

Re: [Announce] modRana: a flexible GPS navigation system
 

hi, MartinK...!

I'm a bit confused now...: I downloaded the tar.gz files from the repo, extracted it to N900 - .maps/monav_data, but ModRana still does not load anything. I checked twice the proper settings written on modrana.org/offline routing, and did exactly what is written there. So there is .maps/monav_data/Hungary/routing_* - the 3 folders. So: should ModRana load the tiles, or sholud I still be online even though I have the maps on the device...? Or what do I exactly have on the device now...?
One other thing: I installed ModRana on my ubuntu - but I don't find tile folders - can you tell me where this is? I tried to use the download option, but please explain: if I choose for exapmle "around view" and "160km", do I get the detailed map (I mean will I be capable of to zoom in and out)? Also, I don't know where to find these downloaded files - I have no option to choose destination, and I could not find any downloaded file...

So my main question is this: is there a way, to download all the detailed map files (all the tiles, in all zoom level) to be capable of routing totally offline (like with the built in navigation ovi maps)?

Thanks,

jm

Re: [Announce] modRana: a flexible GPS navigation system
 

You have vector data for offline routing. It can probably already give you a detailed turn-by-turn route from one address to another, offline, as long as you have chosen Monav as Routing provider in Options.
These tiles (for OpenStreetMap, in this instance) are stored in "/home/user/MyDocs/.maps/OpenStreetMap II/{zoom level}/{x}/{y}.png". Or they can be stored in sqlite database...
When downloading tiles through ModRana, after you choose, for example, "around view" and "160km", you can choose zoom levels, such as "max down" and "max up". But it might take a lot of time to download them. However, the effort will be worth it. I frequently use 50/50 overlay of OpenStreetMap and Microsoft (Virtual Earth) 'satellite imagery'.
If you know another source of raster images, of maps or aerial view, which you would like to use instead, you can add it to file "/home/user/.modrana/map_config.conf".
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