Thread: [Announce] modRana: a flexible GPS navigation system
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MartinK is offline MartinK
2014-11-11 , 16:50
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Originally Posted by marmistrz View Post
It's great!

There are lots of vector maps to be downloaded from the OSM webpage for the whole countries (for example this: http://download.geofabrik.de/europe/poland.html). It's particularly useful as you can download the maps for the whole country at once. Will modrana support this?
These are raw OpenStreetMap data and the available formats (XML & PBF) are not really suitable for direct usage for vector map rendering (you can't efficiently get data for a bounding box). On the other hand these file formats (especially PBF) are suitable for efficient conversion into other formats suitable for vector map rendering.

So it should be possible in the future to use these OSM data dumps for generating suitable datasets for modRana to use.

Originally Posted by nokiabot View Post
Haha looks like 3d maps are near btw able to download whole countries would simplyfy things
I might be able to do something similar to the global Monav offline routing data repository, but no promises just now. ;-)

Originally Posted by nokiabot View Post
and are there plans for including here maps ?
Their data format would need to be documented, redistributable and supported by the tools modRana has available - so not very likely.

Originally Posted by petur View Post
This sounds great.

But I'm moving out... setting up an Xperia Z3 Compact and it will be my main phone by the end of this week.

Martin, thanks again for your work, it was a donation well spent!
Thanks to you too!

Originally Posted by petur View Post
If you (or anybody else) goes to Fosdem, let's meet and have a beer.
Sounds like a plan!

Originally Posted by petur View Post
And I'm looking forward to modRana on Android
(f-droid is a great FOSS repository for Android)
Well actually things finally got moving in this area! Thomas Perl managed to get my hacky Python 3+PyOtherSide+Qt5@Android efforts into a usable state over the weekend and there is already a Gpodder build using this available on the Play store !

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.gpodder.android

So if everything goes well and I don't hit any other substantial blockers, then some preliminary modRana (with Qt 5 GUI) packages for Android should show up in a matter of days.

Originally Posted by marmistrz View Post
MartinK: Can you please fix this offending egg: http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...postcount=1641
Gosh, the egg strikes again! I remember having issues with it before on other platforms - I see what I can do to get rid of it on Maemo.
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