Notices

so, what about
omvoiceserver
that has appeared in the repos. anything I need to know before I just try it out?

I wasn't going to say anything about it yet, since i wanted to add the xml parser so its more accurate, but its a replacement for the python server, but also has a gui. It allows you to turn off espeak, test espeak and the preloaded voice commands. Works under any (i hope) setup ie windows maemo and linux (though its currently hardcoded to look in certain folders and might crash if its not there).

It also has the ability to change language without restarting the server. It will load all voices it finds in the cities/voices folder and under options allows changing them, so you can say commands in english, then maybe swap to greek etc.

Most importantly though, i ultimately want it to read the addresses database and hence give offline navigation. The address stuff is located in the cities folder (can't remember the full path though, will update when i get back from work). The index file sends a message to the nokia server and requests an xml of results. I've made it send the request to my app, and then it can send its own xml results, hence offline searching. (in theory ).

So if anyone knows how to read the database of addresses, I'd come out of your screen and hug you.

For those wishing to try crack the database. Its located under
There you will find folders with 3 letters for each country. Opening the files (city.dat, city.db and city.ref) in notepad gives you suburb names etc, hence why I'm guessing they are the address databases. If anyone can open it and read it, it would be awesomely amazing!

So I installed voice guidance according to Jiri's instructions, and it worked great. The only problem is that the synthesized voice is way way way louder than the sampled voice. I scared my fiancée half to death in my initial tests when all of the sudden I hear over the car stereo "SEVEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY FIVE yards, turn left." Is there any way to turn him down?

Same thing with mine.

great mod!
Can the other features like auto re-calculate implement into the apps?

I have requested help from the council to get permission to distribute the index.html file (and other files if needed).
http://talk.maemo.org/showpost.php?p...&postcount=374

I think it will be faster to provide a package that patches the default files. I wouldn't count on Nokia allowing the redistribution of any modified file.

how do we add custom POI in nokia maps?

Unlikely, but you never know. Its mainly due to the way the application displays everything. From my understanding the plugin draws the route and the html shows the dot based on gps, however I could be very wrong.

I think someone said you can add it into the address book and then use that as a POI, but otherwise theres no POI in the ovi maps application. In the future it may be possible to use the search field as a POI selector, but not sure.


Sorry, I'm not giving much good news