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Posts: 43 | Thanked: 14 times | Joined on Aug 2008 @ Las Vegas
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I've been playing around with different GPS options lately to see if I could come up with a suitable setup. I've gone back to trying RoadNav and after using it for my last trip from Las Vegas to San Francisco I have to say I'm actually very happy with it. It made the whole trip without crashing and I was able to fit all of Nevada and California maps into about 200mbs of space so I didn't have to worry when I went off route a few times. After using it for the past two weeks I hardly ever pull up Maemo Mapper anymore (which is a very good program in it's own respects but no vector maps).

There are a few quirks with RoadNav that can detract from it. For one, the route download feature doesn't appear to work (I get around this by downloading the route in Maemo Mapper and loading it in RoadNav). Also, the route itself doesn't show up very well as its only shown as a single pixel line and can be hard to see. Finally, it isn't possible to zoom out to a state level as it will crash when it tries to draw the whole state.

These issues though seem pretty minor and it looks like there is still a lot of active development on the upstream version of RoadNav. From what I can tell the current port for the tablets hasn't been updated in a couple of months and I'm wondering if the guy who did the initial port has lost interest.

Anyway, does anyone else use RoadNav primarily and Maemo Mapper as a backup? If so what are your thoughts on it? Is there any chance of seeing any more updated ports for the tablets?