Hey Martin: Happy Nameday :O)
Autorotation depends on python-osso but modrana doesn't have it as a depend. You should update the package info. Once python-osso is installed, works no prob.
With the partial crash, I think I see what's going on and why it gets stuck: ... I'm in Russia now and using Mapnik as the source, it quite nicely has all the streetnames in Russian. I assume however that espeak does not know how to handle this UTF-8 text, since the lang isn't specified and so it seems it gets stuck on reiterating the same instruction. Nothing comes out of the speaker, i.e. nothing is said, and the blue box doesn't appear. I was successful a couple of times in getting the blue box with instructions to appear, I assume this must've been where the directions were not in UTF-8, for a lack of a streetname in Russian or what have you. Nothing was said though. And then when I hit reroute, it'd say 'rerouting' and then get stuck, probably on the Russian directions. If this is the case and programming in the language support would be too big of a task, I'd just recommend hacking in to skip saying the streetnames if they are in UTF-8 and just say 'turn' 'in' '80' 'meters' so that it'd still work and not have probs.
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You must've the same probs in Czech though...
One would hope. The nice part is that it would allow one to customize the route in a GUI drag/drop environment on line, then send that specific route (with turn by turn) to the phone.
Handy for those routes where one must re-route the default Google route because it uses a seasonal road that's closed, or has holes larger than your car.
Yeah... Not too bad. But eatting 1/4 of your free space to have local maps kinda sucks. I'm sure I can break it out by major area (Americas, Europe, Australia, etc), which will at least help cut it in half for most people. Can't wait to start on this project now... but have to wait to get free time to do so. Soon though!
Hi Martin, Awesome application, big credit to you for the time and energy that you are putting into this !! I have been trialling ModRana in the past few days based on your advice (and PM), and brilliant assistance from another thread on Mapping, I have loaded Nautical maps as one of my repositories and use this (overlayed to Google Satellite) whilst out on the water to record tracks, mark fishing spots/POI's and understanding the depth/terrain of the current position (based on map data).
There is currently no screen blanking control in ModRana, but its on my high priority list. I have alredy looked how the brightness applet does it (by manipulating some gconf values) and it should not be difficult to implemen in modRana too. Something like "leave backlight on" for starters, and more advanced stuff like turning the screen on when approaching a turn later
This thread is the user guide
2) I have a POI DB with 2044 marks.
Navigating through these easily is difficult in Modrana (long list). Is there an easy way to keyword search the POI's loaded or Display the nearest POI's to your location from the db ?
I'll keep testing and let you know of my thoughts. I'm thinking a 'Boat' mode could be cool, it would seem this is easily achieved with your customizable interface. Well done, and thank you !