Thread: Navit on N900
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Usul is offline Usul
2013-08-15 , 08:48
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#765
Originally Posted by rdorsch View Post
Hi Usul,

happy to read that you bought an N900 to help make a better n900 navit user experience.
Was a pleasure and I noticed that it's a pretty well designed device and build for geeks

Originally Posted by rdorsch View Post
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.
Thats absolutly true and the reason why I try to reintroduce a release cycle and testing.
I will try to translate your text and create a appropriate official N900 wikipage

Originally Posted by rdorsch View Post
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.
Most of them sound good to me and we already try to reflect some of them. But as Navit is heavily crossplatform, it will always need time to create general interfaces and create specific platform implementations in a second step. As the dev team is currently very smal, we need even more time.

IMHO currently we should give the essential tasks a higher priority to get the things done that the 0.5.1 hotfix should reflect (short: code an dev process cleanup and stability).
So I like to suggest:
  • Improve N900/Maemo Navit documentation
  • Move build process to CMake
  • Integrate the build process to our build server
  • introduce official packages to DEVEL repo

In the next weeks I will try to improve the wiki and to learn more about N900 integration.
 

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