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Navit GPS (and libgarmin) for os2008
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adamis
2009-06-09 , 02:55
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SoupDragon and JayGo333 you are finding out one of the frustrations of Navit in that documentation is still a little spotty. However someone has been busy and done some good work that should be a good start at getting Navit to at least run on your tablet. You might have gone through it already but if you haven't here it is...
http://wiki.navit-project.org/index....t_on_n770/n800
I don't know who wrote that section of the wiki but I'm pretty sure it's one of the subscribers to this thread. Just go line by line and you should end up with a "working" version of Navit.
One note on the map thing... If you have multiple maps within a directory that you want to use you can always use *.bin. IE my mapset in Navit looks like...
<map type="binfile" enabled="yes" data="/media/mmc2/maps/*.bin"/>
When I first setup my configuration I was using a California map and a Nevada map. Using the above command would cause Navit to load both maps and thus I would have both California and Nevada displayed. The other nice thing about doing this is that if you ever update your maps you don't have to worry about keeping the filenames the same. Just dump the new map into your maps directory and you are good to go. Remember to remove the old mapfile though!
A couple of more notes... If you are having trouble seeing anything it is most likely because Navit is centering somewhere where you DON'T have any map data (as far as I know there is no "world map" that would display at a large zoom level so you end up with just a blank screen). The easiest way to deal with this is to just connect to a GPS receiver and Navit will center on your location that is presumably within the area of the maps you have downloaded. Another option is to keep zooming out until the map data you have is visible, you might have to scroll around a bit as well. This second option isn't perfect because depending on the zoom level there might not be anything drawn.
Finally you need to make sure you disable the other mapsets in navit.xml (IE garmin or reiserplaner) and that OpenStreet maps is the only one enabled in the Navit.xml file. You will find this in the same area as the openstreetmap section that you used to specify the location of your maps.
Oh, one last thing... If you haven't done so already update to the latest SVN build. The latest version had some bugs fixed that have made Navit MUCH smoother and faster to operate. The menus are still quite slow but map drawing and scrolling is now very functional.
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