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Hi Gerrit,
One thing I've noticed in the menu is that 'tool's displays as a top level choice but apparently does nothing (for me at least)

The one thing about the layout I dislike, which I was planning on looking into, is that 3d isn't a setting which 'sticks' past a re-load. and it's a few layers down to go switch it on.

"Tools" does nothing here either. I think I have most of the OSD stuff on the screen, including the toggle_announcer and speed_warner.

As noted earlier street names and speed have no information, only boxes. Not sure what the speed warner is supposed to do. The announcer button only has a small blue box with a question mark.

Edit* Is there a way to get numbers on the onscreen keyboard? I've typed in towns, but for streets, you occasionally need numbers. Am I missing it somewhere?

Hi
The Tools button is not connected to anything, I will try to get it removed.
The OSD items are pending checkin into SVN, once there those items will work for you.
Not sure what it takes to modify the screen keyboard, the source code will tell :-)

Hi guys nice application. Im trying it out in Cyprus with a OS map. All going well but a few routing issues. When typing in a destination I can only type in 2 letters of the city name, if I type a 3rd letter in the application crashes. Just downloaded the latest version 27/01/2009. Having a bit of an issue getting flite to work aswell. Typed in the command but still does not speak.

All I had to do to get speech working was install flite and un-comment the line about speech/flite in navit.xml

I am able to type the whole name of the cities I'm searching for without crashing.

Most of the time when routing fails, I find that it is due to a defect on OSM maps. The exception is that it still routes as if bridges do not exist (Turn from street on to highway, no ramps present).

I also found that by editing navit.xml section on navigation, change street_1_city from 10 to 20 or 30 helps improve routing as well.

I hope it doesn't break up the discussion much to field a question from a total n00b but here goes.

First off thanks to the developers working on Navit, it looks like an awesome app.

I managed to get it installed automagically via the one-click-install link here;
http://tech.visser-scully.ca/?page_id=23
but since it only comes with a map of Munich of course I'll need to load my own.

I used the 'Planet extract' tool here; http://maps.navit-project.org/download/
.. which produced a "a binary file that can be used directly by Navit without further processing." this is where I have trouble. I copied that .bin file to my N800, I used xterm to locate Navit's .bin file and .xml of the Munich map -- but the dir is owned by root and I haven't found a way to get root access yet - so I can't write any files there.

Do I need to reinstall OS2008 with the R&D package (is it required to get root?) just to load new maps? Is there another way I'm not seeing?

any help would be greatly appreciated, thank you

There are a few ways to gain root. The way I did it was to download a App called GODMODE from the application manager. This enables Root access by entering the command Sudo Gainroot in xterm. I think you may need to be in Red Pill mode to download it from the application manager. If you search on the forum there are many threads covring both these issues in detail.
@Lemmyslender Thanks for the reply I will try deleting the Flite paragraph see if that works. I think it may be the map I have that is restricting the route service

you don't need to be root to use navit, you can just put the map where you have write access, then copy the /usr/share/navit/navit.xml to /home/user/.navit/navit.xml and edit it to point to your map.

Another fix is in the queue, trac 283 covers the 'Navit doesn't exit when using gui/internal with gtk_drawing for graphics'. The X icon at top rh of screen was not connected to anything in the code, thus it closed the window but not the application. (It is connected if you use gui gtk)
The patch is in the trac so if you are impatient you can compile it in.

Gerrit

ps. ernia has the best solution to editing navit.xml. Another benefit to placing the file there is that it is not replaced when you re-install Navit. I also place my maps on the internal memory card.

You can also specify a navit.xml to use when loading. I use Personal Menu / Personal Launcher and edit the command to read

navit /path to/navit.xml in my case: navit /media/mmc2/maps/navit.xml

That way I was able to quickly start either internal or use navitgtk.xml (navit.xml edited to use gtk interface) to start the GTK version. I also do that to try different settings for the OSD when editing navit.xml, or load different maps without having to edit navit.xml every time.

More advanced, i used the xinclude to break out the setting into several files to make it easier to edit. I have maps.xml, poi.xml, osd.xml, and a couple others so I can quickly find only what I want to change (and not have to edit both navit.xml and navitgtk.xml to keep some of the settings consistent). Probably more trouble than it's worth though.