-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Liz wrote: > On Wed, 24 Feb 2010, Patrick Weber wrote: >> I tried Navit on Android yesterday, at least on my phone (HTC Magic) it >> was unusable, the map didnt update properly or follow my movements, and >> crashed a few times. I also could not find out how to actually set a >> route ....
I've just been playing with Navit the last couple of days, and it's the only Android OSM app I've seen so far that I would recommend to other people. The user interface needs some work, but once I got it to work on my G1, it is worth it. > On the Freerunner I run Navit, but I changed the xml file to use the menu > style "gtk". > Using the "internal display" every time you touch the screen because the > backlight has gone off something happens on the program so strange things > happen when you least want them to. I wake the screen using the menu key, but you're right, it needs to disable the screen sleeping. > It can choose and navigate a route of about 200km but past that distance I > have troubles even with a netbook processor. It probably needs to use A-star rather than a simple Dijkstra's algorithm. I think that Navit is the right approach to mapping - it doesn't use map tiles, it renders vectors on demand. It does routing etc. and doesn't need an internet connection. There's a few quick improvements that could be made: * Menu layout needs work - I need a button that says "Navigate to" or "Go to" on the first page, that leads to a search. I can't find an option to delete bookmarks, etc. Also, the menus need to be more android native in feel, rather than strange custom menus. * Direction instructions need a bit of tweaking e.g. it says: "Turn left into a four thousand one hundred and forty four" where it should say: "Turn left into the A four one four four" * Searching needs work (it relies on a strict hierarchy defined by is_in tags & doesn't do postcodes) - it could have an option to fall back to the internet nominatim for searching as this is only a tiny amount of bandwidth & would be a quick win. * Speed sensitive auto-zoom would be nice * The 3d view has a wierd perspective that doesn't really work - it probably needs to be landscape-only, and tilted much further. POI, track, and photo collection would be useful additional features, along with something to highlight in the directions where there is a FIXME or OSMbug entry nearby on the map. I think that integrating these features into Navit (perhaps as plugins), rather than having a separate app would be of much greater benefit. Robert (Jamie) Munro -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkuRATMACgkQz+aYVHdncI3fbwCdGw445froUSzneYQFK/nxm2RZ lOgAoOSkSYPk0zXRBV0DkT5gaPihCMq7 =yFr+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ talk mailing list talk@openstreetmap.org http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/talk
