Re: [Announce] modRana: a flexible GPS navigation system
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Originally Posted by 白い熊
(Post 878006)
You're not gonna believe this, I found the problem.
It was /usr/lib/locale
I've installed locales which is not installed by default, but for boot the old pre-locales-install content is needed, so I bindmount the folder after boot.
Turns out I messed up somehow sometime and had the bindmounted /usr/lib/locale empty and for this reason it was cycling forever with the Russian routing, but for some reason working with Czech.
Anyhow, I've restored contents of the /usr/lib/locale dir properly and now it's working.
Ugh... Thanks for help.
Anyhow, please still implement if you can the Cyrillic identification and substitution, as continuous `letter A 6 7 5...' is not too great :O)
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Glad to hear that you have found the root cause :) I've managed to successfully implement the Cyrillic detection I mentioned earlier, it is already in the recently released version 0.19-1, so you can test it right away :)
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Originally Posted by woody14619
(Post 878353)
When it went to install it pulled in an extra dependency, which was quite large. Apparently espeak has an "extra languages" pack, which modRana thinks it needs now, even if you're not using it for routing in those languages. I like that it can use Russian and Chinese, but can we make that a "suggested" package, instead of a required one? I can ignore suggested packages, but to ignore required ones requires I hack the deb file, which I dislike doing (but did, for this version. ;) I know, it's "only" 6 or 7 megabytes, but that's a good amount of space, even if it is optified.
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OK, I'll look into this. BTW, any Idea how HAM or fapman handle suggested packages ?
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Originally Posted by woody14619
(Post 878353)
That would explain all the boxes I'm seeing? Something busted after I tried to load an older track file, and everything after that, the text was just little boxes. Exiting and restarting it fixed it for now, but I still can't load that track. (It's just a route from google, so I can re-get it.... but I'm holding on to it for now since it reproduces the problem.)
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If this still persists, could you send me some logs and/or the route ? :)
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Originally Posted by woody14619
(Post 878353)
Awesome. I've been able to grab a large number of tiles now without reboots or issues, and have synced the areas I wanted over night finally. This definitely points to GPS being a bit part of the problem on my device. (It's something lots of folks are seeing now with PR1.3.)
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Are there any Maemo bugs for this yet ?
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Originally Posted by woody14619
(Post 878353)
I'll try generating a few and will PM you with what I find, again, probably shortly after Thanksgiving.
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OK, thanks ! :)
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Originally Posted by woody14619
(Post 878353)
I'm hoping to start work on this right after Thanksgiving. I should have a lot more free time right after that, and can get a version out at least that can draw PNG tiles I hope. :)
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Originally Posted by woody14619
(Post 878353)
I'm sure we can find something that takes the vector data and does routing. Once tile production is working, sure... looking at some of those could be nice. I'm quite sure it's doable, as my old Magellan could pull it off in 10 seconds or so on a 300Mhz Arm5 with 256K of ram. It's just the effort of finding the right tools, getting them on the N900 and patching them in. The interface and data massaging is usually the hard part.
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That sounds promising :)
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Originally Posted by gkuenning
(Post 878484)
Am I the only one with the black-font-on-black-background problem in the dialog windows? I really like Modrana's UI design, but when I can't see the text of the destination I'm entering, it kind of defeats the purpose...
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Originally Posted by gkuenning
(Post 879374)
Doubtful. I'm using the default theme, except I changed the background to the Milky Way. No other program has the problem (and I've installed a LOT of stuff).
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I have added a ticket for this issue. I'll look if it's possible to force some background color for the edit box.
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Originally Posted by 白い熊
(Post 878737)
Is there something that affects negatively routing on the other side of the globe?
I mean, I tried to pick the farthest away place, so I could theoretically route at home, if I'd know where I'd be going, and then look at the route map, so that it'd download tiles at home. So then, when you're abroad, you don't have to access the web, at least to download tiles...
So, I can do this now, for instance picking two points in Prague, as I'm not there, it routes great.
Then, I tried to do the same for Hawaii, it tries to get the results from google, says it's 12000 km away, but then it just never calculates the route... Left it for a couple of minutes, and every time I touch the display it says it's getting the route details...
Is there maybe some glitch, as it says 12000 km, which it shouldn't, should it, so that it's still maybe somehow calculating how to start the navigation from the closest position, and that being in Russia, 12000 km away, takes forever?
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This should be fixed in 0.19-1, it was caused by an unhandled no-route-found exception crashing the routing.
BTW, I'am using Prague-Sevastopol for testing long roads, its nice 16 days by foot :)
Ad: Routing not starting correctly when moving
Yes, this is known and I'am going to look on it. There are a few possibilities: - check the next point according to current direction of movement
- after receiving the route, test if the distance to the next step actually decrees, if not -> skip to next step
- use the above mentioned method above some minimal speed, so there are not too many false positives
Any ideas for some other heuristics for finding which turns are actually past and which next ?
Also, I've got an idea for a quick manual solution:
I can map the N900 volume rocker to switch to the last/next turn (and do this only while modRana is in full-screen and navigating, to minimize collisions with other uses for the volume control key).
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Originally Posted by extendedping
(Post 879481)
Have not opened it in a long time, looks much improved. Is there (I did not see it) and option to close internet connection upon modrana close? as it is now it opens a connection (what I want) but if I am driving I for sure don't want the internet connection if I decide to close modrana for the duration of the drive (and yes I have autodisconnect but I'm talking about an immediate close).
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This looks doable :) Basically: - add a "remember and restore connection state" option
- modRana check if there is a network connection on startup and remembers the result
- if there was no connection on startup, modRana will disconnect the connection on shutdown
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