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

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Originally Posted by nodevel (Post 1374552)

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.

Just to expand my report:
When I search an address from the menu, find it, click Options and choose 'Route here', it doesn't do anything.

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

Hi,

I've just installed the latest version for the first time (i.e., not upgrade) and this application is great! However, the "Route" and the "Download Maps" options aren't working. I am using a PR1.4 N9 (OOTB, no strange changes).

Did I miss anything?

Thanks!

Gabriel

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

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Originally Posted by ggabriel (Post 1376471)

I am using a PR1.4 N9

Yeah, sure. :cool:

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

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Originally Posted by peterleinchen (Post 1376707)

Yeah, sure. :cool: [PR1.4]

Argh, sorry, PR1.3 I meant.

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

FWIW, this happens [in the command line] when I hit maps->download:

Code:

Found SGX/MBX driver, enabling FullClearOnEveryFrame

Found v1.4 driver, enabling brokenTexSubImage

hijackWindow() context created for QMainWindow(0x681690) 1

Found SGX/MBX driver, enabling FullClearOnEveryFrame

Found v1.4 driver, enabling brokenTexSubImage

QGLWindowSurface: Using plain widget as windowsurface

QGLWindowSurface(0x1394f50)

file:///usr/lib/qt4/imports/com/nokia/meego/PageStack.js:135: Error: Error while

loading page: file:///opt/modrana/modules/gui_modules/gui_qml/ic/Map.qml:-1 File

not found

Will have a closer look at some other point...

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

Quote:

Originally Posted by ggabriel (Post 1376471)

Hi,

I've just installed the latest version for the first time (i.e., not upgrade) and this application is great!

Thanks! :)

Quote:

Originally Posted by ggabriel (Post 1376471)

However, the "Route" and the "Download Maps" options aren't working. I am using a PR1.4 N9 (OOTB, no strange changes).

Did I miss anything?

Thanks!

Gabriel

It's simple and kinda a fault on my side - it is just not yet implemented in the QML GUI modRana uses on Harmattan. Is I've been getting similar questions lately, I really should finally:

add a "not yet implemented screen" for those features or hide the buttons for the time being
implement that stuff :)

BTW, to clarify - all these features are supported by the modRana core and available from the GTK GUI used on the N900 and elsewhere. It is just the QML GUI that is lagging behind in exposing those features.

More specifically what needs to be done:

create the corresponding QML pages for Download, POI, Routing, track logging, etc.
expose any data and function needed from the modRana core to the QML context using QObject wrappers (provided by PySide)
- The recent POI and routing provider rewrite should make this easier.
implement marker display in the QML GUI for showing POIs on the map
implement polyline drawing in the QML GUI, so that routes and tracklogs can be shown on the map

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Originally Posted by ggabriel (Post 1376786)

FWIW, this happens [in the command line] when I hit maps->download:

Code:

Found SGX/MBX driver, enabling FullClearOnEveryFrame

Found v1.4 driver, enabling brokenTexSubImage

hijackWindow() context created for QMainWindow(0x681690) 1

Found SGX/MBX driver, enabling FullClearOnEveryFrame

Found v1.4 driver, enabling brokenTexSubImage

QGLWindowSurface: Using plain widget as windowsurface

QGLWindowSurface(0x1394f50)

file:///usr/lib/qt4/imports/com/nokia/meego/PageStack.js:135: Error: Error while

loading page: file:///opt/modrana/modules/gui_modules/gui_qml/ic/Map.qml:-1 File

not found

The page is just not there yet - and looks like it is even incorrectly named. :)

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

Thanks, MartinK - it is certainly nice to know. I suppose I can install it elsewhere, download maps and sync them to the N9. Lots of fun to be had.

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

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Originally Posted by ggabriel (Post 1376864)

Thanks, MartinK - it is certainly nice to know. I suppose I can install it elsewhere, download maps and sync them to the N9.

Sure, that should work just fine. On the N9, map data is stored in:
/home/user/MyDocs/.maps/

modRana runs just fine on desktop Linux distributions and it also defaults there to the (for the time being) more featured GTK GUI. You can download the map data here and sync them to your N9. :)

Alternatively, you can also use dedicated map data downloader, such as for example GMapcatcher. The format used by most of them is compatible with modRana.

EDIT:
And of course modRana on the N9 stores all tiles it "sees" on the map. Such tiles will not be downloaded when requested again, but loaded from local storage (from the above mentioned folder).

Quote:

Originally Posted by ggabriel (Post 1376864)

Lots of fun to be had.

Thats for sure! :) Also, any feedback is welcome & needed for further modRana development. :)

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

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Originally Posted by MartinK (Post 1377078)

Alternatively, you can also use dedicated map data downloader, such as for example GMapcatcher. The format used by most of them is compatible with modRana.

Yeah, there are a few out there. I tried jTileDownloader (or something like that), and to be honest all I'm interested in are the URL's, then I can do a wget on a headless server and leave it downloading at home.

I'm pretty sure I'll bump into an inode hard limit on the N9 at some point.

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

I am really hoping for routing support on the N9 soon! Just twice in the last week I have become frustrated with Nokia Drive because it will locate my ending address and then tell me that I can't get there from here. Modrana is the reason I still use my N900 as a GPS even though I can't charge it anymore due to a broken USB port.