>> I am wondering if currently anybody is working actively on porting >> navigation software with offline routing to maemo with osm data. >> >> I know that somebody worked on navit somebody else on Gosmore, but I have >> not seen updates since a long time...is there anything else going on? > > Navit could be a perfect companion on Maemo. Compiles, runs and routes > nicely - as long as there's no gps signal... :( > > Unfortunately it frequently freezes as soon as gpsd is running. Unfortunately > my C knowledge is rather nonexistent so I cannot debug or improve this > behaviour. > > There are (rather dated) packages on [1]. The author asks for patience > regarding updates as he's working on some stuff.
These updates are apparently a new GUI and routing in libgarmin. I am certainly interested in navigation software (thanks for pointing out gosmore, I'd missed it). The big issue at the moment is that the OSM data (which is what I'll be using at least as I don't have any Garmin maps for Navit) lack certain metadata which would be useful. The main thing here is the road speed, or some indicator of what the road speed might be (e.g. road type data - in town/country/etc.) I imagine there may be ways to get around this and still have a half decent routing system, and then implement these sorts of checks once the metadata catches up. I've not been able to try Navit (probably due to the mentioned gpsd problem) - it never wanted to do anything when I was running it. I'm more tempted to take a stab at gosmore as I assume it will be simpler code and easier to hack and modify ourselves. I should add that onion is planning to add routing abilities to his fork of maemo-mapper (see here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/User:Onion/Mapper#Todo_List) so developing a bear-bones routing system would probably benefit lots of different projects (and most of all, be interesting to do). Anyway, count me in :) Cheers, Simon _______________________________________________ maemo-developers mailing list maemo-developers@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-developers
