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xes	2015-01-07 , 14:43
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@MartinK ...i think to remember that some time ago you prepared the modrana rpm packages for fedora... Is it correct? Do you have a repo for them?

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skanky	2015-01-07 , 14:46
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@nodevel: Re the downloads - do you have sqlite selected? I find downloads don't work unless I save tiles as files (this is mentioned up thread).

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sixwheeledbeast	2015-01-07 , 14:55
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Originally Posted by xes

@MartinK ...i think to remember that some time ago you prepared the modrana rpm packages for fedora... Is it correct? Do you have a repo for them?

I don't remember RPM packages, I have installed modRana on Ubuntu.
The source is here so you can build it yourself.
http://modrana.org/trac

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nodevel	2015-01-07 , 15:26
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Originally Posted by skanky

@nodevel: Re the downloads - do you have sqlite selected? I find downloads don't work unless I save tiles as files (this is mentioned up thread).

(edited due to cross posting)

Yes, I have sqlite selected just as I had it on the N900 (ever since this option was available). I will try to disable it; thanks for the hint.

I wonder why it doesn't works though - I clearly have some tiles downloaded from the past, but no new seem to succeed.

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skanky	2015-01-07 , 15:48
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Originally Posted by nodevel

Yes, I have sqlite selected just as I had it on the N900 (ever since this option was available). I will try to disable it; thanks for the hint.

I wonder why it doesn't works though - I clearly have some tiles downloaded from the past, but no new seem to succeed.

No idea, I've only just moved to Jolla, so only started using the latest version - I can only assume an older version worked and it's a recent regression?

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skanky	2015-01-07 , 16:43
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http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...postcount=1733 ?

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MartinK	2015-01-07 , 17:44
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Originally Posted by nokiabot

@martink pichlo pretty much nailed it theres no point renaming i called lts as its really long term support ;

I'll probably just promote the current modRana package in Extras-Devel to Extras if no major issues show up.

Originally Posted by nokiabot

Btw any progress on qt5 and 3d on n900 )

I still don't have a working Maemo 5 SDK and no one else has ported PyOtherSide to Maemo 5 yet. So still no Qt 5 GUI on the N900 until the needed PyOtherSide is ported.

Originally Posted by skanky

Finally got a Jolla and am moving to that. I've installed modrana on it and am having the sqlite tile issues as mentioned above. I'm also having an issue downloading the OS tiles from VE. A quick look around and I see that (a) not all the features are implemented in Jolla?

Yep - while the Python core is the same on the Jolla as on the N900, there are still many features that are missing the the Qt 5 GUI used on the Jolla compared to what is available in the GTK GUI used on the N900.

Originally Posted by skanky

and (b) I should be able to get a log of the download failure. I'll get that sorted, but thought I'd quickly check whether it's expected to fail on Jolla at the moment?

I'll check if it also fails for me & thanks for the log.

Originally Posted by skanky

Thank you again for this great app, and for porting it to the Jolla. It's much appreciated.

Thanks!

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marmistrz	2015-01-07 , 18:31
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MartinK: do you have anything working what concerns the vector maps? I'm looking forward to beta-testing it and possibly hunting some bugs (hopefully there'll be no bugs

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MartinK	2015-01-07 , 18:41
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Originally Posted by nodevel

Having picked the top SailfishOS apps, I tried to think why the most useful app on my N900 is launched only once a while after an update on my Jolla.

It's not just the lack of routing (even though that's major). I think the reasons are:

Frederic Ferner, who already contributed two nice features that have been included in the latest modRana release, is now aiming at adding routing support to modRana on Sailfish OS.

So the situation should should hopefully improve in the near future.

Originally Posted by nodevel

unreliability - on the N900, it was very reliable. I even used it as an online map source during my travels through the US as it hardly ever (yes, sometimes, but not very often) missed a download. Now I launched Modrana on Jolla, showed a POI on the map and 15 minutes later, the whole map is still covered with grey tiles with "mapnik: downloading" and "gtraffic_overlay: downloading". Sure, there might be problem in one layer, but both?

Originally Posted by skanky

@nodevel: Re the downloads - do you have sqlite selected? I find downloads don't work unless I save tiles as files (this is mentioned up thread).

(edited due to cross posting)

Yep, that could very well be it. So please check if it also happens when you select files as the tile storage backend.

And if it still happens even after that, then:

go to Options->Debug
enable Log file and Tile handling debugging
note the path to the log file below
browse the affected area a bit
send me the resulting log file/s

Originally Posted by nodevel

The most used feature other than routing was searching for POIs (mostly businesses). Is the provider on SailfishOS the same as in the Fremantle version? Because in 90% of cases, I chose an item from the menu [Food/Groceries] or so. Is it possible to add these categories on Sailfish as well? Keyword search isn't that useful to me.

Originally Posted by nodevel

The UI - when I'm driving, I prefer not to see any state change animations. Even though I have animations on SailfishOS disabled, the standard system animations (page changes) still occur - could this be overriden?
And second, the back button - while driving, I don't want to swipe and the dot in the top left corner is too tiny to press without looking. Could you add the 'Back' menu option as in the Fremantle version?

The page animations should be skipped when animations are disabled, so I'll investigate if something is wrong. As for showing the back button - this should be rather easy to add as an options as modRana already shows a back button with Qt 5 GUI outside of Sailfish (desktop, Android).

Originally Posted by nodevel

Still, thanks for working on my favorite app from Fremantle!

http://my-maemo.com/grafika/modrana2.jpg

Thanks!

Originally Posted by xes

@MartinK ...i think to remember that some time ago you prepared the modrana rpm packages for fedora... Is it correct? Do you have a repo for them?

Here it is:
https://copr.fedoraproject.org/coprs/m4rtink/modrana/

Just note that is is a bit out of date & the Qt 5 GUI might not work at all as Fedora (both 20 & 21) has since been upgraded to Qt 5.4 and PyOtherSide 1.3 (the latest version & the version in the copr) reportedly crashes with 5.4.

Hopefully new PyOtherSide will be released soon so that it works again. But the "classic" GTK GUI should work just fine.

BTW, the Fedora spec file for modRana is still really really horrendous and there is also quite a lot of bundled Python modules. I really need to finally clean it up a bit sometime.

Originally Posted by sixwheeledbeast

I don't remember RPM packages, I have installed modRana on Ubuntu.
The source is here so you can build it yourself.
http://modrana.org/trac

As long as you have the prerequisites installed, you can just clone the modRana source code repository and run it. I've basically designed the repository structure to explicitly make this as easy as possible so that modRana users and/or (potiential

) modRana contributors can get modRana up and running as easily as possible - without any esoteric build steps.

So basically:

1) install the dependencies

2) clone the repo

Code:

 git clone https://github.com/M4rtinK/modrana.git

3) run modRana

with GTK GUI

Code:

cd modrana
python modrana.py

with Qt 5 GUI

Code:

cd modrana/run
./qt5.sh

And that's it!

Originally Posted by nodevel

I wonder why it doesn't works though - I clearly have some tiles downloaded from the past, but no new seem to succeed.

I've quite rapidly changed how the Qt 5 GUI handles tile down-/loading a few months ago to make it truly asynchronous and parallel (before it had a various issues like one slow tile download blocking all tile loading). That probably resulted in the sqlite tile storage getting wonky when the Qt 5 GUI is used as multiple threads are trying to access the database and Sqlite does not like that.

As files is still the default on Sailfish OS, it probably went kinda unnoticed since then.

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MartinK	2015-01-07 , 18:53
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Originally Posted by marmistrz

MartinK: do you have anything working what concerns the vector maps? I'm looking forward to beta-testing it and possibly hunting some bugs (hopefully there'll be no bugs )

Maemo/N900 or Sailfish ? On Sailfish there should hopefully be something to test as soon as the Merkator app/daemon by Basil is released as for initial support modRana just needs to add a new layer pointing to the localhost tile server.

As for N900 there and generally outside of Sailfish - it will depend how portable Basils solution is it might be also possible to use it outside of Sailfish or a corss platform modRana-based solution would be needed. But such a solution is still just in the (even though quite detailed) design phase with not much usable code. Also I'll really finally try out your python-mapnik port soon (TM), I promise!