[maemo-users] Wiki Page on Navigation Tools for Maemo

[From: Rainer Dorsch]

Hi Courtaud,

Am Montag, 15. Juni 2009 schrieb COURTAUD Didier:
> Hi
>
> I am also trying to use Navit on my tablet but I have still some questions
> :
>
> - GUI
>
>   The GTK one wotkw well but "internal" although promising is a bit
> disappointing !

Interesting. I had more trouble with the GTK interface and liked the internal 
one.

>   How initiate a roure from that GUI ?

I assume you mean a route?

You need to set a position and a destination. You can click the map and then 
in the menu select actions and then you can use the world icon to use the 
location you clicked at.


>   The menu you can invoke have items that
>
>     - either do not work
>     - or seems to work but do not record the preferences for instance

Do you have examples?

> - Routing
>
>   I have not succeeded to initiate a route : either specifying a location
> as "destination" or trying the destination window does not work

see above.

Rainer

> As for the XML file, I find it very useful and clear !
>
> DC
>
> Christoph Eckert a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> >> http://wiki.maemo.org/Navigation_Tools
> >
> > concerning Navit, it automatically routes if it has a gps fix and a
> > destination. A destination can either be set by pressing on the map and
> > selecting "set as destination" from the appearing context menu, or via
> > the address search.
> >
> > Navit looks promising, but it requires some extra coding for the tablets
> > still. Editing the XML file is not "acceptable" for the average user, but
> > this theoretically could be solved by providing an adjusted config file
> > via the nightly builds. However, someone then needs to keep the default
> > and the adjusted config file in sync. Or the nightly build must do some
> > sed magic.
> >
> > The mailing lists are pretty useless, but the main communication channel
> > for navit is on IRC. You will find the core hackers there as well as some
> > users.
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > ce
> >
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