Thread: [Announce] modRana: a flexible GPS navigation system
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2010-09-04 , 02:25
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#169
Originally Posted by 白い熊 View Post
I like modrana, since it's free software.
So do I.

Originally Posted by 白い熊 View Post
Three things make sygic better currently though.

- Voice navigation. Should be easy to fix through interfacing to espeak. I understand the author is already working on this.

EDIT: Oh looking at post 165, maybe I haven't updated, it seems the espeak interface is working. Am gonna give it whirl...
Yes, it seems it's already implemented, but right now I have no chance to test it.

Originally Posted by 白い熊 View Post
- Fix the display so that vehicle is on the bottom as in the standard nav, so you see what's in front of you. Autorotate, so you're always looking forward. Auto reroute, without touching any controls. Should be easy to fix.
Some of active tickets:
add automatic map rotation
rotate the map in the direction of travel -> direction of travel is on top
when the turn-by-turn navigation is active, move the position indicator down and show more of the map in the direction of travel
automatic rerouting

Originally Posted by 白い熊 View Post
- Internet access. Given you use nav often in places you're not familiar with, many of the times it's gonna be while abroad, which makes it impossible to use now, since it doesn't do routing and uses google routes, so the web access would cost a fortune abroad.
Yes, I have no Internet on N900 and thus cannot use some features of ModRana, like route (and therefore, voice navigation).

Originally Posted by 白い熊 View Post
The last one is the biggest problem.
Concur.

Originally Posted by 白い熊 View Post
I think it should be fixable - for instance by interfacing to routing abilities of navit - also free software, or using its routing algorhythms, don't know.
Yes, it would be good if ModRana learned to understand, where roads and footpaths are situated, and to create routes without Google.

NavIt has too many dependencies, I do not dare even to install it.

Routing algorithms of NavIt could certainly be used; it's not necessary to reinvent the wheel.

Originally Posted by 白い熊 View Post
Until the last one is implemented, sygic will still be significantly better for navigation, unless you never navigate abroad, or in roaming, and have an unlimited data plan.
I don't want to use a non-free program, even as a trial. So I use ModRana.

I could use NavIt, but I suppose that I don't like having all the map in a .bin file... And ModRana has comfortable interface... And I already have ModRana installed, while NavIt would require going through the dependencies again....

Right now, a feature request to MartinK: create a directory for .osm files (downloaded by user from OSM website or by application after user specifies what area he is interested in), let the application read them and use them for routing. I hope that either GTK+ or Python is comfortable with XML documents (*.osm).
 

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