Notices

I just searched the osm file for a data record but there really is none for my home town. There are lots of POIs in the town, but not the town itself. It seems like the OpenGeoDB entry is missing in OSM.

How can i solve that? should i do this?: http://www.internettablettalk.com/wi...de_interpreter

That should work and would be the cleanest solution. However, I don't know if any other programs on the N900 rely on the broken libfreetype library that ships with maemo.
Therefore the safest solution would be to keep the stock library and make only navit use a newer one. You can either accomplish that by compiling navit on your own with the new library like described here [1] or by using the pre-compiled navit packages from chollya [2] which come with their own libfreetype version.


[1] http://wiki.maemo.org/Navit
[2] http://www.chollya.org/navit/

I reinstalled navit from the script and now it works. But my garmin maps didn't work. I edited navit.xml (i disabled openstreet maps, enabled garmin maps and edited the img path). My openstreet map works but i realy want the garmin maps. How can i enable libgarmin?

I think that i enable libgarmin. But i still can't see the map. How can i know if the map is locked?.

Hi, i try this:

when i type ./autosh.sh i get this error:

And when i try apt-get install aclocal:

I uninstalled and re-installed it , using the script again and it worked and installed everything this time round.
I just took it out for a test and can say that it does work but it can be frustrating to use especially when you want to input a route in, all the other options in the menu are pointless, including the quit option as it just quits if u accidently press the fullscreen icon anyway :P
The electronic voice is annoying and unclear at times, wish a normal voice could be added in.

Overall still seems quite buggy and would definetly be better if some more improvements could be made, mainly an easier menu structure for saving routes and creating new 1s.

But nice effort tho as there isnt much out there for the n900 in this area

Navit on the N900 is not as good as the Navit imlementation on an Android device. But considering all the other GPS options for the N900 that are decent are either online apps, comercial or both, it not too bad.

Major bugs/problems are;
1) OpenStreetMaps will peg streets to the nearest town name (& some of them are obscure, out-dated or wrong)
2) You are limited to the onscreen keyboard within Navit & it is buggy (doesn't update cases, #s, etc)
3) Synthesized voices are not always clear
4) Routing will sometimes force you to go the long wayaround, rather that identify shortcuts.

Other than those, it's great.

Am I the only one who's navit does not announce highways or highway exits?

Do anybody has problems when they want to set a destination? I have tried it out but everytime I set a destination the app crash out...

Anyone know what is the solution?

Thanks