Notices

Today I had to travel around by car, so I took my n900 with me to test navit.

Most of the routes were known by me, so it was no problem to find the target destinations. One big problem with navit is, that e.g. when you have to drive on freeway (german autobahn), that navit is reporting to drive left instead of saying "leave freeway".

I don't know if this is because of OSM or navit software itself.

Another problem is speech output even if you have to drive a long distance straight on. Often navit advices to turn around, even if the route is displayed correctly on the screen. Perhaps a map problem too.

All in all navit is nice to support your driving in an area you are familiar with. But when you are driving in an area you never were before I don't know if it's comfortable.


BTW: The Brodit car mount with flexble windshield mount does the job very well.

Regards debrez

followed the bad instructions in this thread but couldnt get navit to work with garmin maps...... i couldnt install the debs they provide

http://www.chollya.org/navit/
Recent builds of navit.

Qml gui is also there. But it's under heavy development.
To use it change config to this:
<graphics type="qt_qpainter" w="800" h="424"/>
<gui type="qml" enabled="yes" source="/opt/navit/share/navit/skins" width="800" h="424"/>

libqt4-maemo5 (4.6.2) is required to run, command:
LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/opt/qt4-maemo5/lib/ /opt/navit/bin/navit

And yes. Navit still crashes when started not from console.

the last comments imo asked not for new packages, but for instructions how to build themselves.

care to explain, how you built navit?

I do not make this packages. I just wanted to share a link. Do you know where I can find a newer/better debs? Also this builds are from navit developer.
I've tried once to build navit for n900, but LOL no, that's not so easy. Building alone needs some not so trivial steps. Then making debs. So I better leave it to someone who have more experience. And I'm not a linux noob. :*)

d***.
i used to build navit for openmoko freerunner all the time and it was no problem whatsoever.

i am really fed up with maemo's development facilities.

in my opinion it's not worth the trouble. I paid for my sygic mobile maps and am very pleased about it. doesn't crash, find its way, better maps than navit. but grab the sources from the link posted above and compile away...

Hello magellan94,

Thanks for your tutorial. I'm french too and my english is worse than yours....

Navit work well on my N900 but i don't have the 4 icons "zoom+" " zoom-" ..... on the top of my screen but in le OSD.xml files they're present.

One solution ?

Any n810 users runing navit ? can you compare to maemo mapper ? since wayfinder is no more usable ...

http://wiki.navit-project.org/index....n770/n800/n810


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http://rzr.online.fr/q/gps

the two differences that spring to mind from my little experience with mapper:
- navit does routing -- no need to download precalculated routes.
- navit uses premade compressed maps. for instance the whole of europe is currently at 1.4g and contains all resolutions. mapper needs to download tiles for all resolutions which sum up pretty much to more than 1.4g even for a very small area.