Notices

i did save map file in external sd card, basically you can put it where you want, but you must edit ~/.navit/navit.xml (or /usr/share/navit/navit.xml, but i think it would be rewritten at every installation) to point to that file.
you could give a look at these two useful pages of navit's wiki:
http://wiki.navit-project.org/index....figuring_Navit
http://wiki.navit-project.org/index....n770/n800/n810
you will save a lot of time

Lemmyslender - is YOUR "navitOSD.xml" file available online somewhere?

I'd love to get that for reference in fixing the missing icons you referenced earlier in February.

Thanks

Tom Stratton

Tom,

Here it is. I think it should work, been a little while since I played with it. I'm calling (using the include function) it from my navit.xml file, but you should be able to cut and paste it in where you need it.

Enjoy.

Um - I may have looked in the wrong place but I can't figure out how to enter an address and have it actually USED as a destination for a route. Can anyone explain that to me?

I can click on a map point and use that as a destination (though the calcualtion is VERY slooooow) but that is next to useless 'cuz if I know where I'm going I don't need a navigation system to get there!

Help me please...

Thanks

Tom

navit is still very alpha and navigation through addresses doesn't work very well, as far as i know. recent svn are really slow on n810, i think that navit's guru in the forum, gerritv or dwould, could build n810 optimized navit packages, i can't do it myself. gerritv is on holiday with no connectivity, so the only one that can help us is dwould, unless you can do it yourself.
The latest optimized build wich i'm aware of is the one you can download from gerritv's blog: http://tech.visser-scully.ca/
post #280 in this thread explain how to route through two points of known coordinates.
if you need reliable navigation right now i think you better use maemo mapper or buy a temporary wayfinder license

well im going to try out roadmap instead i guess... hope this is easier to use

Thanks for the help. I didn't realize how far we still had to go - the 5 star rating on maemo.org is a little misleading (though I should have known better)

Tom

Hi, I'm afraid navit on n810 is not super fast no matter what you do in the build. MY experience so far is that it's pretty good until you get an actual gps signal at which point responsiveness drops a lot.
I've been somewhat busy with other things so I've not had a chance to try much new recently.
I do have an RSS feed of the changes going into the code base which is shown on my blog
http://danielwould.wordpress.com
I have been keeping an eye out for interesting looking changes.
As for the 5 star rating, it depends what you want from the app, it continues to have great potential, and is really nice for rendering maps of the area you're in, if what you want is to keep an update map of your country and be able to render your local area without an internet connect etc, then it is fantastic. However navigation remains slow. ( too slow for me, but then I have a tom tom and sat nav on my phone so I have a low threshold for switching if I just want navigation that works)

If I get time this weekend I might finish what I started setting up scratchbox on my server, which at least puts me in a better position to try things.
Unfortunately Gerrit is the man that knows he C, so was better placed to actually make improvements ;-(


UPDATE: taking a look today there have been some updates around gypsy as an alternative to gpsd. It seems gypsy is going to be used in fremantle and I'm investigating what I need to do to try things out on the n810. I have no idea if it will have a performance benefit. If anyone else knows anything about gypsy, installing/configuring etc. please post about it.

for some reason when i try to enter a destination it hangs.

is there a manual for using this thing???