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I just started playing around with RoadMap GPS again after several months. After looking at it closer it seems to have everything I want in a GPS solution. The biggest advantage are the vector maps and potentially routing... However, I seem to be missing the boat on how routing is supposed to work.

From the menus it appears that there is a way to download routes through google just like Maemo Mapper. However, I have been unable to figure out how it is supposed to work. I select a start and end point for a route and then click on the download route button but nothing appears to happen. Has anyone been able to get routing to work with Roadmap and if so, can you explain how?

Also, is there a way to get rid of the annoying status screen that pops up when the map is being rendered? This is most apparent when one starts to zoom out considerably. The pop-up window comes up every half-second and then goes away. This gets really annoying since it repeats this until I zoom back in sufficiently that it no longer re-renders everything.

I haven't played with Roadmap in some time, but ISTR that it did its own routing, which is certainly possible with vector maps. There should be no reason for downloading routes if they are used, that's only strictly necessary with raster maps, but the app has to have the routing algorithms programmed into it. I may be mistaken about Roadmap having it, but I know that one app I used did routing. Maybe Roadnav or something like that. I've pretty much given up on mapping on the NIT except for Maemo Mapper since I have a standalone mapping GPS. I use Maemo Mapper just to see the photos, not for routing, and that only occasionally.