Offline GPS Navigation on Sailfish
 

Hello !
I know that a lot of sailfish users want offline GPS navigation
But I have a side question. Can we install harmattan SDK in a chroot on sailfish ? (We can already do it on harmattan)
Then, maybe, we can install nokia drive inside, and get our OFFLINE GPS NAVIGATION BACK :)

What you think about folks ?

Re: Offline GPS Navigation on Sailfish
 

Harmattan apps use Qt4 which doesn't support Wayland. So they can't run on Sailfish.

Re: Offline GPS Navigation on Sailfish
 

Sygic for android is pretty sick. Takes care of all my map and navigation needs

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and with this ? http://wayland.freedesktop.org/xserver.html

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XWayland should be supported by compositor (Wayland server). In Sailfish it is lipstick and it doesn't support XWayland.

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Sygic works for me.

However, there is tentative roadmap for native offline maps/navigation app, as discussed in here. But it will be 2015 until it's ready to be released.

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Did you mean slick or slick? :)

Sygic has one disadvantage: it is not free. Back in the days when I was using Android, I found a very good and free offline navigation solution called NavFree. It had its own downloader for offline maps per country. The maps were based on OpenStreetMap but neatly compacted, one file per country rather than the usual set of tiles. I do not know if it's still around and if it still works the same way or whether it would work on Jolla.

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NavFree works on Jolla. And it's still around.., :D

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Does somebody tried Navit for Android? It works fine in Jolla? Or a port for Sailfish is needed?

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Sure, let's use some proprietary free solution when you can either buy good navigation software or use the (IMO) best Android navigation app that is completely open source, can download vector maps for offline use and works perfectly on Jolla...

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You lose any argument about "proprietary free solutions" the moment you use Android :)

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OT...

As much as I dislike Android, this is simply not true.

I have triple boot on my tablet (webOS, LuneOS, Android). Once in a while I boot into clean Android 4.4 AOSP. No Google Services installed, all apps coming from the F-Droid store that includes only FOSS applications. OsmAnd is one of those.

Tell me where is the proprietary part.

PS: Even if your argument was valid, it would be like equating a Windows machine with bunch of freeware apps to Linux machine with all FOSS apps and one binary NVIDIA blob.

Re: Offline GPS Navigation on Sailfish
 

Osmand is ok but I do wish someone would write a new UI for it and added a better voice nav engine.

The UI doesn't appear to have been designed by anyone that has used a phone sized screen while trying to navigate on it.