Thread: [Announce] modRana: a flexible GPS navigation system
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MartinK is offline MartinK
2012-12-28 , 11:23
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Originally Posted by Kossuth View Post
I tried the point to point navigation, and it gives the directions correctly and in the console it does routing ofcourse by coordinates, but when I click the routetools and then route info, it shows correct addresses for the start and end points,
ModRana geocodes the start & destination coordinates to get these addresses - it call a geocoding API with a pair of coordinates and gets an estimated address for for the place on these coordinates.

This also works in reverse - you can give it an address and it returns geographic coordinates - which is what the address2address routing service does internally.

Originally Posted by Kossuth View Post
but even if I copy these addresses directly to address routing, it gives me nothing.

If nobody else is reporting any errors in their address routing I'm beginning to suspect it's my system that has the flaw in it.
I've just tried it out with modRana running on my PC and it looks like address2address routing is currently broken globally.
Originally Posted by Kossuth View Post
Is there something special modrana uses when doing address routing compared to coordinate routing,
Until recently modRana used some old & obscure routing API and I have recently switched it to a more recent one that also has more features. I'm sure the new API is used for point2point routing, but now I'm not sure if address2address routing also uses it or still runs through the old one (that might have got switched off ?).

Originally Posted by Kossuth View Post
so I could check for example my network bits and like? I'm running currently freemangordons thumb2 compiled binaries and there are some network packages that are not stock in my system, so I might have messed someting up.
As I've managed to reproduce the same behavior on a PC, it really seems to be a global issue.

BTW, I'll reply to the previous questions & write about new features now in development in the next post(s).
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