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[Announce] modRana: a flexible GPS navigation system
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nodevel
2015-01-07 , 14:22
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Having picked the top SailfishOS apps
, I tried to think why the most useful app on my N900 is launched only once a while after an update on my Jolla.
It's not just the lack of routing (even though that's major). I think the reasons are:
unreliability - on the N900, it was very reliable. I even used it as an online map source during my travels through the US as it hardly ever (yes, sometimes, but not very often) missed a download. Now I launched Modrana on Jolla, showed a POI on the map and 15 minutes later, the whole map is still covered with grey tiles with "mapnik: downloading" and "gtraffic_overlay: downloading". Sure, there might be problem in one layer, but both?
The most used feature other than routing was searching for POIs (mostly businesses). Is the provider on SailfishOS the same as in the Fremantle version? Because in 90% of cases, I chose an item from the menu [Food/Groceries] or so. Is it possible to add these categories on Sailfish as well? Keyword search isn't that useful to me.
The UI - when I'm driving, I prefer not to see any state change animations. Even though I have animations on SailfishOS disabled, the standard system animations (page changes) still occur - could this be overriden?
And second, the back button - while driving, I don't want to swipe and the dot in the top left corner is too tiny to press without looking. Could you add the 'Back' menu option as in the Fremantle version?
Still, thanks for working on my favorite app from Fremantle!
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