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you can set the center position in navit.xml (see navit's wiki or your navit.xml for details) or, better, go out and get a gps fix, navit will remember your last position. navigation trough addresses/town, as stated before, doesn't work very well now (as far as i know), i think that the only method to get a route is the one in post #280 and #281 or #282

see post #301

have you tried http://wiki.navit-project.org/index.php/Main_Page
i suspect it appeared to hang when a destination was entered due to hitting max cpu calculating the route.

i succesfully got a route calculated from italy to austria (about 400 km), while i wasn't able to calculate a route from italy to germany (about 800 km). this issue should be the one reported in bug #243, while the navigation not working through city should be the one in #276.
why do you thing that is a cpu-problem? that would be the end of navit on n810

it's just that in my experience, as it seems in yours, that some rouutes can fail or chew time and cpu. It's certainly capable of routing. but sometimes map data can cause it problems.

Well I can enter locations but I'm having trouble with some locations... I got my map from http://downloads.cloudmade.com/north....navit.bin.zip

when i zoom into my gps fix i can see my road & its name but when i try to search for it when entering a destination its like it doesnt exist

lol wow i've updated navit like 3 times in a week. whats going on?

Dwould, would you be kind enough to post a video showing how you perform basic functions like entering destinations etc

I'd like to see how it works

sunny-

I get my maps from cloudemade (and therefore openstreetmap.org). In my area (ohio) there are a lot of errors in the maps. For instance, the street my parents live on seems have multiple dis-jointed sections. Because of that, my location appears to follow the street fine, but I can not route to or from anywhere on their street. It onlyshows up on max zoom (sorta) or if you try to edit at openstreetmaps.org.

The many errors make routing difficult and tedious. I wish I had time to go through and correct them, but I don't. Corrections can take a week or three to show up on cloudemade, which adds to the frustration.

Perhaps you are experiencing the same types of errors I see.

Navit is still very much a work in progress, so there are frequent updates, some of which benefit us using n8x0's and many which don't. As a result of these updates, some features break, and some change how they are implemented, making directions a moving target. The wiki probably has the most current imfo. We may have answers to specific questions here as well.

sunnydips, if I had a clue how to do that I would. but I have no video camera and no idea if I can capture fully screen video of using the device? I'd guess not.

lemmyslender, yes it's frustrating that fixing problems in the map takes time to filter through, but I personally love that I can fix problems at all. I've added some is_in tags for various destinations I use to ensure they show up in searches. I took a little while to come through, but I can live with that.
I think the fact that you can edit this stuff live on the webpage these days is pretty amazing. When I mapped my home town I did it all in a standalone java editor. Now you can even get osm2go for maemo and make your changes whilst out and about.