I tried to use modRana this weekend, but wasn't succesful at all. Did use Maporama then. But I see modRana's GUI with big buttons has potential. First, when buttons are touched on the touch screen, nothing indicates you have succesfully touched a button. I guess it is a GUI library issue, but a major lag of usability.
Just creating a route, putting start and end addresses there and then pressing the "route"-button....nothing seems to happen or indicate you have successfully touched the button, until after few seconds it returns to an empty map.
Support for portrait screen would be nice. I use Maporama in portrait mode and the map rotating to the direction I am going, so I will see more road ahead in the map. In landscape mode, I would see less.
Could it be possible to get modRana to use same map tiles on local directory as Maporama is using? So one could download map tiles with either program and both programs could use them?
When going to Menu/route/Current_route, it does show the start and the end addresses. Show on map returns to an empty map again. Tools/start_navigation/first_step returns to an empty map. Logging the track works though. Isn't there a way to mark your current position on the map somehow with some dot? This (and also Maporama) misses a feature where the map can be zoomed without showing a more accurate map. When driving (a car) one cannot see the small font which is on the map. Somekind of pixel doubling or tripling or similar would be useful.
[Edit: I looked the first post again. I just cannot get any indication of the GPS position on the map, although it centers the map correctly where I am. Routes just do not show on the map. I wonder what I've done so those features do not work. Where in the filesystem does modRana keep its persistent configuration data? Gconf?]