Thread: Navit on N900
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Originally Posted by Usul View Post
Hi there, this is Usul from the Navit team.

We are currently try to, reanimate our development and to get better usability and more stability
This means for now, that we switch back to a releasing cycle and put the focus on the essential features and platforms and make more testing.

As all that can not be done by only a few devs and we need to disburden our maintainer, I like to ask who might want to help us, to maintain the maemo n900/n800 port?
https://forum.navit-project.org/view...php?f=17&t=427
This means in detail, that we like to setup a build server/repo for creating current SVN nightly builds and to help on improving the integration on the platform and make use of the pretty cool features that the N900s offer. I already bought an old unit, to help on testing and documentation:
http://wiki.navit-project.org/index.php/Maemo

If you want to get in contact with us, please sign up at our wiki and use this credentials to login our forum. Personally I don't want to mess up this topic with all content that is more related to development etc.
Hi Usul,

happy to read that you bought an N900 to help make a better n900 navit user experience.

If it helps you, I can share my setup, which I use to build navit for n900 more or less regularly (about once per month). Clearly, more formal releases would help to pick good code for a package. Though I have to admit, that I saw few problems with more or less randomly picked svn revisions in the past year.

I think in total better integration would help the n900 or maemo port in general. Obvious things would be
  • Map download through a gui
  • Package which can be uploaded to extras
  • Disabling GPS when accelerator indicates no movement
  • Direct calling to phone numbers of restaurants in the attributes (instead of copying the phone number manually to the phone application)
  • Addressbook/destination integration
  • ...

Unfortunately, my time budget does currently not allow me to drive that effort, but I am happy to support anybody who wants to get more involved.

Rainer
 

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