Re: Navit on N900
 

Here's my experience!

I DIT IT!

Well...
- the open map is quite too light, (i've not found even my city near Paris... :/) but i can't critize. I'll try to find routenplaner to test another maps.
- I've putted the right XML files, modified for maps. Ok. Works... but good only with gtk library. I don't understand why, but in submenus of the native interface, impossible to type any route! Setting "no" to normal gui, and "yes" to gtk, i can type and make it calculate. Quite long (not surprising with a beta), but working.
- Executing by the icon make navit unstable. Execute it with root privilege make stable. Perharps a grant problem on some files?
- no crash log, but some alerts to "Can't load "name of the file.xpm". Maybe do i need to put many more icons?
(the XML profile which i tool is from this post
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=127
only modified for the map, and the gui valor).

I'll test it much more, but i can validate that:
- It works
- It is not so complicate as i thought (yeah... it's not automatic... And what? :D)
- Open street map is not enough (for now, will see later) to make a real substitute to a not free map system
- Quite stable (for a first experience), but when executing with xterm.


Why not implement a small .sh which execute
If it's possible, of course.

I'll try to understand why my gui interface doesn't really good...

Re: Navit on N900
 

Yes, I read and I followed the instructions, but maybe I didn't understand or it didn't work for me...

I used the Navit.zip pack and I tried to modify navit.xml but I don't know if it is right... so, can you tell me what and how to do?

Thanks :)

Re: Navit on N900
 

For starters, start it from xterminal. Just fire up xterminal, and type navit and hit Enter-key. And if possible, paste the output here so we can analyse what's going on.

@Magellan94: Shouldn't be any permission problems. It's true that some POI-images still are missing, they're missing completely from the source (for example shop_grocery.xpm/png). But those missing icons aren't the cause of crash. I think it might have to do with some missing libraries or alike. Will investigate more at it.

I run navit as the default user and it doesn't crash at all. However, I run navit with on a freshly flashed n900.

I will try to release tomorrow a more fresh package from SVN, put the correct dependencies. Hopefully that will solve the problems.

Re: Navit on N900
 

- For the missing items... not really a problem for me (i'm not really interested by these POi's)
- For the crashes, i cant' blame : it's experimental, compiled without a real support, so i've not to complain^^
- The only thing i can't understand, is that the GUI doesn't work properly... and that is a real problem, cause the GTK makes it looks like a "PC" app, and on a "small" screen... :rolleyes:

So... waiting for the next release!:D

PS:
Here's the alternative link for DL the (for now) last Version:
http://www.mediafire.com/?uzyrd5znjjj

Good night !(for me, it's 11PM in France;) )

Re: Navit on N900
 

another strange thing... if i run under root, i've a screen with gtk!
If i run Xterm and bash navit, i get another front end, with specific menus...

Somebody can explain it?

Re: Navit on N900
 

You get different behaviour because you don't have same xml files for root (in /root/.navit).

Re: Navit on N900
 

I copied *.xml to wrong dir, I copied it in /home/user/.navit/
Now I copied to /etc/navit/ and GPS icon appears.

But no HUD on the map... :)

Re: Navit on N900
 

I installed the application. It's very impressive. That would be very nice to use, but first things first.

I'm using OpenStreetMap here. All the local streets are on the map,but they are not showing up on the search field of the navigator. I even added is_in tags to the streets and it didn't help either.

Fortunately I was able to export OpenStreetMap XML data and edit the tags myself. It seems that, if I move the city center some kilometers to the east, the missing streets are listed now. That did the trick, but sure we cannot move the centers of the cities.

Perhaps the reason to the peculiar behaviour is that the big cities are just beside each others here in the capital area of Finland. Can someone explain, what is the way Navit checks if a street is locates to a city?

Re: Navit on N900
 

Hi,

You have different environment as root.
I have the exactly same behaving with my N900 + navit. Even this svn -version didn't help :(

The way to keep it stable and get the right UI (for me) is to:
1) run xterminal
2) sudo gainroot
3) run-standalone.sh navit

That way I get the right UI and navit doesn't crash when I try to insert a destination.
Hope this helps to you as well.

Re: Navit on N900
 

New log:
- With gtk GUI, get "gdb not found", with no details
-> Crash immedialty, and its crashes when validate a track (with this error)
I've found another "bug", with the bookmark.txt (under /home/user/.navit). File is missing (probably need to be created by recording a bookmark). Made a file manually, and the alert disapear.

I think that the original installation of the Gtk library has been badly made (files or folders missing?)

What do you think about it?

Another annoying thing: I put a smaller map (thinking that is the map size is involved).. no change: the search fields doesn't return the streets i want to have.
But...
Tried to find the streets on the open street map system: they exists! I extracted my own map to XML file (.osm format), found the city, the street, controlled the GPS position with another tool: match! But Navit doesn't find it.

Is there a cache into the apply where is located the city, streets names? Maybe have i to clean it before using a smaller/another map?