Notices

Originally Posted by MartinK

I can see a few ways of representing this:

• big fullscreen arrow and distance (like in AGTL)
• a widget version with small arrow and distance, placeable on the map screen (I really have to finally rewamp the widgets to a usable state )
• an arrow pointing from the current position indicator (TangoGPS does it like this)
• just drawing a long line from current position to a given point
• or maybe drawing your own route on the map (might be also useful to send to others) ?

Originally Posted by 白い熊

Otherwise if you start navigation from a moving vehicle, you almost always miss the first point, the distance keeps growing, and you never get directions - a navigational nightmare :O)

Originally Posted by janszoon

is there anyway to disable the two boxes relating to tracks in Car Mode eg "Activate a track to show time to start" etc I dont use tracks for each journey and they take up a bit too much of my screen realty.

Originally Posted by Wikiwide

Edit file:
/opt/modrana/user_config.conf

Comment with ## some lines like below:
[car]

[[OSD]]

[[[time]]]
px=0.82
py=0.05
font_size=50
align=right
## [[[time to start]]]
## px=0.93
## py=0.23
## font_size=20
## align=right

Originally Posted by janszoon

Question on this:
When the program is updated, does the user_conf reset or remain?

Originally Posted by 白い熊

You're not gonna believe this, I found the problem.

It was /usr/lib/locale

I've installed locales which is not installed by default, but for boot the old pre-locales-install content is needed, so I bindmount the folder after boot.

Turns out I messed up somehow sometime and had the bindmounted /usr/lib/locale empty and for this reason it was cycling forever with the Russian routing, but for some reason working with Czech.

Anyhow, I've restored contents of the /usr/lib/locale dir properly and now it's working.

Ugh... Thanks for help.

Anyhow, please still implement if you can the Cyrillic identification and substitution, as continuous `letter A 6 7 5...' is not too great :O)

Originally Posted by woody14619

When it went to install it pulled in an extra dependency, which was quite large. Apparently espeak has an "extra languages" pack, which modRana thinks it needs now, even if you're not using it for routing in those languages. I like that it can use Russian and Chinese, but can we make that a "suggested" package, instead of a required one? I can ignore suggested packages, but to ignore required ones requires I hack the deb file, which I dislike doing (but did, for this version. I know, it's "only" 6 or 7 megabytes, but that's a good amount of space, even if it is optified.

Originally Posted by woody14619

That would explain all the boxes I'm seeing? Something busted after I tried to load an older track file, and everything after that, the text was just little boxes. Exiting and restarting it fixed it for now, but I still can't load that track. (It's just a route from google, so I can re-get it.... but I'm holding on to it for now since it reproduces the problem.)

Originally Posted by woody14619

Awesome. I've been able to grab a large number of tiles now without reboots or issues, and have synced the areas I wanted over night finally. This definitely points to GPS being a bit part of the problem on my device. (It's something lots of folks are seeing now with PR1.3.)

Originally Posted by woody14619

I'll try generating a few and will PM you with what I find, again, probably shortly after Thanksgiving.

Originally Posted by woody14619

I'm hoping to start work on this right after Thanksgiving. I should have a lot more free time right after that, and can get a version out at least that can draw PNG tiles I hope.

Originally Posted by woody14619

I'm sure we can find something that takes the vector data and does routing. Once tile production is working, sure... looking at some of those could be nice. I'm quite sure it's doable, as my old Magellan could pull it off in 10 seconds or so on a 300Mhz Arm5 with 256K of ram. It's just the effort of finding the right tools, getting them on the N900 and patching them in. The interface and data massaging is usually the hard part.

Originally Posted by gkuenning

Am I the only one with the black-font-on-black-background problem in the dialog windows? I really like Modrana's UI design, but when I can't see the text of the destination I'm entering, it kind of defeats the purpose...

Originally Posted by gkuenning

Doubtful. I'm using the default theme, except I changed the background to the Milky Way. No other program has the problem (and I've installed a LOT of stuff).

Originally Posted by 白い熊

Is there something that affects negatively routing on the other side of the globe?

I mean, I tried to pick the farthest away place, so I could theoretically route at home, if I'd know where I'd be going, and then look at the route map, so that it'd download tiles at home. So then, when you're abroad, you don't have to access the web, at least to download tiles...

So, I can do this now, for instance picking two points in Prague, as I'm not there, it routes great.

Then, I tried to do the same for Hawaii, it tries to get the results from google, says it's 12000 km away, but then it just never calculates the route... Left it for a couple of minutes, and every time I touch the display it says it's getting the route details...

Is there maybe some glitch, as it says 12000 km, which it shouldn't, should it, so that it's still maybe somehow calculating how to start the navigation from the closest position, and that being in Russia, 12000 km away, takes forever?

Originally Posted by extendedping

Have not opened it in a long time, looks much improved. Is there (I did not see it) and option to close internet connection upon modrana close? as it is now it opens a connection (what I want) but if I am driving I for sure don't want the internet connection if I decide to close modrana for the duration of the drive (and yes I have autodisconnect but I'm talking about an immediate close).

Originally Posted by handaxe

One thing with your current POI - IMO it would be best to be able to save one's own POI in gpx (waypoint) format, so that they are transferable easily to other systems. In essence, this view embraces the "tensions" between requirements of road navigation vs free hiking nav.

Originally Posted by 白い熊

Also, modrana should really save the routing if it's closed without the routing being cleared.

It happened as I was driving that it must've segfaulted or something, but closed. Then upon reopen, the navigation should be there right away, as is standard in nav software, rather than having to again select where to navigate etc.

Originally Posted by janszoon

Question on this:
When the program is updated, does the user_conf reset or remain?

Originally Posted by woody14619

If user changes happen, the app manager will make a backup and then replace it with the package contents by default. apt-get will prompt and ask what to do.

Originally Posted by Wikiwide

I don't know, but it should be only read, not written, by the program, i.e. remain, not reset.

Originally Posted by MartinK

BTW, looks like the thread already has over 33 thousand views