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

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Originally Posted by MartinK (Post 1367029)

So once that is up and someone reverse-engineered the Nokia maps file format and wrote a vector geometry source for it, they might be of some use. Not very probably though & and would require a lot of effort that could be spent to to improve rendering or open vector data storage & generation.

I wonder if reverse-engineering the POI database would be any easier? I'm always surprised at how much useful items it contains - one of the more useful being that you can search for bus routes and it will return the nearby bus stops serving that route.

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

Hi,

i'm really impressed with this application and have been testing it for a few weeks recently. the auto-reroute is working well. i'd like to make the following feature suggestions...

1. remember the last position when exiting modrana so that a sensible position is used by modrana at startup while it waits for a valid position from the gps.

2. while waiting for a map title to download, use one from a different zoom level if it exists.

3. this is a big request, but it would be nice if the installation of off-line routing and maps was integrated with the main gui.

even without these, modrana is the best opensource navigation app i have seen. thanks for your work.

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

I recently decided to try out MoNav instead of Google for routing since I ran out of bandwidth on my data plan, and while routing itself works, I seem to not be getting directions properly.

I get "None to <Road Name>" (replace <Road Name> with whatever road) or just "None" when routing.

I am running modRana v0.42.1 git:41a67b2
I am in Malaysia.
The language for directions is set to English.
I am using this data pack: http://modrana.org/data/monav/asia/m...nei_car.tar.gz

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

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Originally Posted by Volvagia356 (Post 1372779)

I get "None to <Road Name>" (replace <Road Name> with whatever road) or just "None" when routing.[/url]

Are you trying to search using street names? AFAIU MoNav packs don't store street names. If it doesn't work even point-to-point routing, what's the console output?

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

modRana 0.43.2 has been FINALLY released ! :D
This release should fix most of the recently reported issues, such as:

the annoying Xlib bug when starting navigation
address search now works again and uses Nominatim instead of Google
directions should again look fine when using Monav (no more "None to First Street")

There are also various improvements, such as:

The QML GUI now can do address search (can be also used to search for named restaurants and other amenities)
The QML GUI now should look fine on high-DPI devices
multiple background tasks can be canceled individually in the GTK GUI
better address display in route info menu
the Monav routing server is now started asynchronously

There was quite a lot of invasive work going on regarding of how asynchronous routing and point search work, including the integration of a thread manager component from the Anaconda installer project. :) This should make support for new providers and usage of the data from multiple GUI front-ends easier.

Since this is "done" and working, releases now should again happen more often. :)

Changelog:

Code:

* Tue Sep 10 2013 Martin Kolman - 0.43.2

- fix the annoying "Xlib: unexpected async reply" error

 - thanks to Geoff Kuening for helping to find the root cause ! :)

- fix navigation messages when using Monav offline routing

 - no more "None to First Street" :)

- fix route OSD menu

- reverse geocoding now uses Nominatim instead of Google

- start and destination address display takes aspect ratio into account

* Wed Aug 14 2013 Martin Kolman - 0.43.1

- address search now works again in GTK GUI

- the QML GUI now supports address search

- the address search service was switched from Google to Nominatim

- the QML GUI should now handle high-DPI screens properly

- the design of the QML GUI was improved in some places to be more consistent

- multiple background worker threads can be now canceled individually

- modRana source code now uses 4 space indentation :)

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

Hi Martin, thanks for the awesome release .. but I cannot find the Harmattan package for the new version .. could anyone please point me in the right direction .

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

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Originally Posted by nokiac (Post 1373897)

Hi Martin, thanks for the awesome release .. but I cannot find the Harmattan package for the new version .. could anyone please point me in the right direction .

Harmattan packages are not yet out - I've been using the late MeeGo COBS to build them, so I'll have to set up the Harmattan SDK. Should be soon. :)

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

Up-to-date modRana package for Harmattan is out ! :)

It can be downloaded either from the modRana project website:
http://modrana.org/packages/harmatta...43.2_armel.deb

BTW, all new Harmattan packages should show up in this folder:
http://modrana.org/packages/harmattan/

And the modRana package on OpenRepos has also been updated. :)

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

Hello, thanks for your updates!

I have experienced a bug with the latest GTK version on N900, though: when I choose 'Route' - 'Address to address' it shows just a black screen instead of the address dialog.

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

Can we have a separate mode for mapping with a button to add POI with just a name? Currently I have to click minimum 5 times before I can enter a name and 3 times after that to get back to the map (Menu - POI - Add - From map - point on map; skip description - select category - show on map) while it can be done in 3 clicks total: Add new note - click on map - enter the name and submit it.