Notices

Not really

The other day I was going for a walk and switched to a map with walking routes (for manual routing). When I got back home I forgot to switch back to the google map I normally use, and asked for walking directions, and they looked like those for a car, avoiding 1-way streets etc. Thought this was caused by not having the google map on.

So Google routing is having some hiccups probably...

the routes returned depend on the current mode (can be changed form menu->mode).

For online Google routing, you should get walking directions in the Foot mode and car directions for all the other modes (bike routing should be also supported but there was some issue on Googles side when I last tried it).

For the Monav based offline routing, both walking directions & bike routing works. For all other modes car directions are returned.

I always get shown the same route in modRana when I use foot mode or car mode. I just tested a route now and google maps shows a completely different route for walking to driving, but modRana always shows the driving one whatever mode I choose. I am using online routing mode in modRana.

Exactly. I also made sure it was in walking mode, should have made that clear in my post

It was a pleasure to bump into Modrana after Mappero development ceased! I'm going to vote for the app as soon as my registration gets completed!

Only one issue: after restarting the app, the current map screen jumps to a weird location (for example, when stopping navigating in Spain, next time you start the app it's in Africa!). This is due to the slow GPS of N900, before it finds a fix it claims to be in an absurd location.

This could be easily fixed by having the app starting with the last map screen, and switching to the gps location only when pressing the center button. Nokia Maps and Mappero work like this.

Thanks for still developing this great software!

You won't be able to, your account has to be >1 month old and you need 100 Karma.
This is to stop people opening new accounts over and over again and voting for themself.

I am also a new member who has been lurking on this forum for a while. It was finding this fantastic app and this thread that made me register so I could reply.

I want to say two things:

1) modRana is a fantastic application. It is amazing that it is being developed by one man in his spare time while other, supposedly professional applications, developed by large teams as their main job, suck big time (no specific apps shall be named ).

2) I managed to reduce the FAT32 overhead significantly by reformatting the N900 vfat partition through Windows Explorer with the smallest allocation unit size it let me (8K as opposed to default 64K). I started off with 800K worth of maps taking up 4.5M of disk space. After the reformat, they took only 1.2M. Of course, you need to backup everything to the PC first and restore it afterwards, do not blame me for losing your data if you don’t!

It is even safer + more space efficient + in some cases faster to reformat N900 with ext3. But for Modrana it is irrelevant as it can store the maps even more efficiently with: Options->Map->Tile Storage->sqlite.

RFE: I miss an option to automatically convert existing tile files to sqlite, selecting and downloading them all again is not much fun.

Thanks for the suggestions. I had actually considered both. I did not want to change the file system as I often attach the phone to a Windows PC. NTFS might work but that seemed like a lot of work to make the N900 being able to use it. And I am aware of sqlite but I wanted to share the maps with other apps like Mappero, at least for the time being. At some point I may decide to ditch all other apps and use modRama exclusively, then I will definitely migrate to sqlite.

Are you planning to add a switch to disable all animations? I'd really like that