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Originally Posted by MartinK View Post
There is a "enter name" button next to the "tools" button in the log menu for this.
Ah.. I was talking about renaming the saved gpx files made for when you get a route from online, not the logs you make yourself, though that is handy to know too.

Originally Posted by MartinK View Post
Good to know, thanks !
BTW, what about the graphical front-ends ? I wonder whether they show the prompt too...
I know HAM does not. I don't use FAM, so I don't know about that one. HAM makes a backup of the existing file (with a .dpkg-dist extension) and replaces it with the one contained in the package. (This is why the PR1.3 update reset lots of people's customizations for LED patterns and camera setting...)

Originally Posted by MartinK View Post
Normal GPX files normally don't have the needed routing info, so its not possible to use them for a meaningful turn-by-turn navigation.
Yeah.. I picked that up from last time... Though even if you saved it as a track log with just and indicator of turn points (even without text) it would be enough to "bing" or such when coming close to a turn. But finding a way to save the turn text and such would be nice as well.

What format does it come in from the route server as? Maybe you can just save it in that format (with it's own extension) for later loading. I wouldn't mind having a difference between routes and logs, especially if I can make a route (say on Goggle maps) and export it in some way that modRana would understand.

Originally Posted by MartinK View Post
I have summarized the possible improvements to a new ticket.
Did I forget something ?
Looks nice, except for one tweak. I was thinking the alerts would be more like 10k and 2k out, vs 2k and 1k. When you're going 100kmhr, 2k isn't much warning, especially on a multi-lane highway. It can take 3 or 4K just to get over to the proper lane sometimes.

This is all "icing on the cake" as it were. I love where it's at right now (esp with the POI stuff working so well).

In the not too distant future (Thanksgiving-ish) I may have some time to work on porting a tile server to the N900. If so, it could act as a local server (backup) for non-networked usage. I've made some pretty extensive changes to an opensource tile server for a group I've been working with, and think it may be pretty doable to get it up and running on here.
 

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