Thread: [Announce] modRana: a flexible GPS navigation system
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MartinK is offline MartinK
2011-07-23 , 17:18
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Originally Posted by slender View Post
I promised to post some example from tomtom gui so here it goes
http://aijaa.com/v.php?i=000948347385.jpg
Thanks !

Originally Posted by slender View Post
1. Animated compass needle showing your current direction in degrees.
So this is basically current bearing vs north ? How useful is it actually ?

Originally Posted by slender View Post
2. Graphical sign for next turn & distance to turn

3. The number or name of the road your are turning
This info should be hopefully available once modRana starts using Monav. BTW, I'm already starting to test it's Python bindings.

Originally Posted by slender View Post
5. Zoom buttons (Far away from each other to minimize occurrence of miss taps of wrong button)
The zoom buttons in modRana are IMO already far enough - but is shows nicely how elaborately is the TomTom GUI designed.

Originally Posted by slender View Post
On N900 maybe the best compromise would be to use right or left edge of screen with column of ~200px
And maybe automatically switch to the bottom once the device is rotated to portrait ?

Originally Posted by gkuenning View Post
Martin, quick question (because I'm too lazy to dig through the code right now!):

How hard would it be to allow turn-by-turn routes to be imported from a file?
Well not that difficult IMO.
Actually, thanks to your speed based voice message triggering patch modRana no longer needs the Google provided triggering distances. So a simple GPX file with some points having routing messages (using the <cmt>, <desc> or eveng <extension> tag ? GPX 1.1 schema) should be now quite easily usable for routing.

Some notes to this:
  • modRana already does GPX loading for the tracklogs
  • the Turn-by-Turn navigation module currently just processes the raw Google Directions result
    • a simple generic class for storing route/tracklog info might be needed
    • which would also help adding new online/offline routing providers, storing and loading routes, automatic route reloading at startup, etc.

Originally Posted by kureyon View Post
There is a problem with displaying Chinese characters when using POI search:
Thanks for reporting! I'll check it out - looks like a Unicode conversion error to me.
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