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MartinK	2010-09-01 , 18:25
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Originally Posted by extendedping

I set the ?navigaton? button (sorry don't have phone in front of me now) to 100m but this was still not long enough. for instance 4 out of 5 times I had to get onto a different highway or take an exit, I was actually on the exit before the voice kicked in gave me my instructions. I wonder if there could also be an option for say 200m?

I added options for 200, 300 and 500 m. Also, make sure you in the car mode when driving (there is a car icon on the menu button) or else you may get a walking/biking optimized route.

Originally Posted by extendedping

also a manual reroute button like you suggested would be great. as it is now there is no real way to reroute while driving as you can't start going into menus while driving so it would need to be on the first screen.

I made it so, that tapping the routing info box triggers rerouting (new route from current position to destination + turn-by-turn restart from closest point). When I get to implementing the corridor idea, there would also be an option for automatic rerouting.

Originally Posted by krsh77

I also tried the JTileDownloader and I am yet to get a hang of it. It will be highly appreciated if there are instructions to download maps for a region/country like we have in Ovi Maps.
Cheers

It works for Ovi Maps, because they use vector maps which are much more space efficient. Downloading a standard sized country in all zoomlevels, including the highest ones (which have the most tiles) would mean downloading hundreds of thousand of tiles and would be an overkill. On the other hand, downloading a whole country with the lower zoomlevels only, so you have all the main roads and general area oversight, could be quite handy. It is weird there seem to be no such "upper zl tile packs" per country from the OpenStreatMap project.

Originally Posted by kureyon

You can download tiles on a desktop system and transfer over to N900. See earlier posts in this thread.

Does anybody want to write a short "how to get tiles from PC to modRana" tutorial ? I can then put it on the modRana and Maemo wikis.

Originally Posted by sony123

Awesome! I wish your app was available 6 month ago....

Well, I started working on modRana about 6 months ago...

Originally Posted by sony123

Several (kindly asking) requests:
Could you put a search shortcut overlay to the main window? Currently it takes 4 clicks to reach category and 5 for custom query. What I have in mind is a shortcut that goes directly to category (whether search for nearby position or view might be a setting in option?)

Do you mean that it goes directly to the categories menu or to some predefined category ?
Fast search access could be handled by a dedicated "search widget".
BTW: all the current widgets (speed, time, coordinates, etc.) are per mode configurable in "user_config.conf" in the main folder and interactive widget configuration and management is planed.

Originally Posted by sony123

Is it possible to add a call option to search result for direct calling from modRana?

I'll investigate how this could be done.

Originally Posted by sony123

Another request is... could you beautify the UI? (Am I asking too much?)

Could you be more specific ?

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