Re: Tangogps or navit with prepackaged Europe map

2009-05-29 Thread KaZeR
Hello list. You might be interested in reading those pages : http://wiki.navit-project.org/index.php/OSD contains an example of the OSD configuration i'm using on the FR. http://wiki.navit-project.org/index.php/Navit%27s_binary_map_driver describes briefly navit's binfile maps. I saw a post

Re: Tangogps or navit with prepackaged Europe map

2009-05-29 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/5/28 Joseph Reeves iknowjos...@gmail.com: That's made me think - we (as in the community) could provide packages via opkg.org that provided regular updates for various countries / regions / zoom levels. Would be very easy to do, just make sure that someone has up to date tiles

Re: Re: Tangogps or navit with prepackaged Europe map

2009-05-29 Thread jeffrey . ratcliffe
On May 29, 2009 10:20am, KaZeR ka...@altern.org wrote: I'm using navit almost daily on my GTA02, for real-life navigation (not just test cases). Route computation is a bit slow, but we can also blame the FR for that. I'm using the MG maps (OSM coverage in my area is still rather poor) and i'm

Re: Tangogps or navit with prepackaged Europe map

2009-05-29 Thread Helge Hafting
Laszlo KREKACS wrote: Dear List, Is anyone aware of any images, with prepacked maps with tangogps or navit? Im going to travel in the next days across Europe, and a gps device would be handy. I have a spare 2G uSD card. So some ready-made uSD image would be extremely cool. I only need

Re: Tangogps or navit with prepackaged Europe map

2009-05-28 Thread arne anka
don't know about any images. but with a map for all of europe 2gb is pretty little. it certainly won't work with tangogps -- once i tried to get all of germany in a usable resolution for tangogps and it exceed by far 2gb. so, your best bet would be navit with its binary maps which are much

Re: Tangogps or navit with prepackaged Europe map

2009-05-28 Thread Robin Paulson
2009/5/28 arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de: don't know about any images. but with a map for all of europe 2gb is pretty little. it certainly won't work with tangogps -- once i tried to get all of germany in a usable resolution for tangogps and it exceed by far 2gb. so, your best bet would be

Re: Tangogps or navit with prepackaged Europe map

2009-05-28 Thread Tilman Baumann
Laszlo KREKACS wrote: Dear List, Is anyone aware of any images, with prepacked maps with tangogps or navit? Im going to travel in the next days across Europe, and a gps device would be handy. I have a spare 2G uSD card. So some ready-made uSD image would be extremely cool. I only need

Re: Tangogps or navit with prepackaged Europe map

2009-05-28 Thread Stuart Pullinger
others have put together more or less regularyl updated binary map files of several regions of the world. You could try downloads.cloudmade.com - they have a europe map in navit format to download. It's 631M zipped so it may be too big for your SD card once unzipped. Stuart

Re: Tangogps or navit with prepackaged Europe map

2009-05-28 Thread Joseph Reeves
links at osm where others have put together more or less regularyl updated binary map files of several regions of the world. That's made me think - we (as in the community) could provide packages via opkg.org that provided regular updates for various countries / regions / zoom levels. Would be

Re: Tangogps or navit with prepackaged Europe map

2009-05-28 Thread Tilman Baumann
Robin Paulson wrote: 2009/5/28 arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de: don't know about any images. but with a map for all of europe 2gb is pretty little. it certainly won't work with tangogps -- once i tried to get all of germany in a usable resolution for tangogps and it exceed by far 2gb. so,

Re: Tangogps or navit with prepackaged Europe map

2009-05-28 Thread Tilman Baumann
btw. if you consider it. The reiseplaner maps are great. But at least on my GTA01 (64MB) it does not really work well because navit becomes unusabely slow. http://wiki.navit-project.org/index.php/European_maps#Marco_Polo_Grosser_Reiseplaner Would be interesting to see how it does on a gta02...

Re: Tangogps or navit with prepackaged Europe map

2009-05-28 Thread Laszlo KREKACS
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 1:14 PM, Joseph Reeves iknowjos...@gmail.com wrote: That's made me think - we (as in the community) could provide packages via opkg.org that provided regular updates for various countries / regions / zoom levels. Would be very easy to do, just make sure that someone has

Re: Tangogps or navit with prepackaged Europe map

2009-05-28 Thread Christ van Willegen
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 1:12 PM, Stuart Pullinger s...@elec.gla.ac.uk wrote: others have put together more or less regularyl updated binary map files of several regions of the world. You could try downloads.cloudmade.com - they have a europe map in navit format to download. It's 631M zipped

Re: Tangogps or navit with prepackaged Europe map

2009-05-28 Thread Laszlo KREKACS
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Laszlo KREKACS laszlo.krekacs.l...@gmail.com wrote: Maybe there is already available uSD image Ok. I tried to install navit on SHR. I downloaded: wget http://shr.bearstech.com/shr-unstable/ipk/armv4t/navit_0.1.0+svnrev2198-r1_armv4t.ipk wget

Re: Tangogps or navit with prepackaged Europe map

2009-05-28 Thread Christ van Willegen
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 1:27 PM, Laszlo KREKACS laszlo.krekacs.l...@gmail.com wrote: I have read on the list that navit requires many tweaks to run with an acceptable speed Once I get Navit building on my PC, that's one of the first things to look into... The wiki is a bit too neutral about

Re: Tangogps or navit with prepackaged Europe map

2009-05-28 Thread Tilman Baumann
arne anka wrote: Since the 'bin' format is a .zip file with lots of smaller files in it, unzipping the (europe).zip file won't grow the data much... that's actually quite interesting! it never occured to me to analyze the resulting file. so, which map format would be faster -- navit or osm?

Re: Tangogps or navit with prepackaged Europe map

2009-05-28 Thread Laszlo KREKACS
Maybe there is already available uSD image Ok. I tried to install navit on SHR. For starting navit the navit-dev package was required: http://shr.bearstech.com/shr-unstable/ipk/armv4t/navit-dev_0.1.0+svnrev2198-r1_armv4t.ipk I have put the germany.navit.bin file to /mnt/media/europe dir. I

Re: Tangogps or navit with prepackaged Europe map

2009-05-28 Thread arne anka
Since the 'bin' format is a .zip file with lots of smaller files in it, unzipping the (europe).zip file won't grow the data much... that's actually quite interesting! it never occured to me to analyze the resulting file. so, which map format would be faster -- navit or osm? the same map in

Re: Tangogps or navit with prepackaged Europe map

2009-05-28 Thread arne anka
basically a memory format and as far as I can read it mmappable. i never looked into navit's source code. the train of thought was simply: small file - highly compressed information - increased cpu usage while extracting. ___ Openmoko community

Re: Tangogps or navit with prepackaged Europe map

2009-05-28 Thread Tilman Baumann
arne anka wrote: basically a memory format and as far as I can read it mmappable. i never looked into navit's source code. the train of thought was simply: small file - highly compressed information - increased cpu usage while extracting. No it is more like optimised computer readable

Re: Tangogps or navit with prepackaged Europe map

2009-05-28 Thread Ed Kapitein
Hi Laszlo, Don't forget to set your location in the navit.xmlfile too. ( navit center= ) Make sure you map covers the location entered there. you also might need to remove the center.txt file. In the gtk interface there should be a pulldown menu map in the top bar, is that present? That would

Re: Tangogps or navit with prepackaged Europe map

2009-05-28 Thread Christ van Willegen
On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 4:13 PM, arne anka openm...@ginguppin.de wrote: basically a memory format and as far as I can read it mmappable. i never looked into navit's source code. the train of thought was simply: small file - highly compressed information - increased cpu usage while