On Sun, Nov 29, 2009 at 02:14:35PM +0100, Marc Bantle wrote: > Hi Jens, > > Jens Seidel schrieb: > > Hi, > > > > I always wondered how people use navit. I started it already a few times but > > find it (in contrast to tangogps) completely unusable. > > > > Once I start it I just get an empty background. Shouldn't it display a map? > > I read http://wiki.openmoko.org/wiki/Navit and tried the described "Easy > > Way" but do not find the dialog to download maps. I haven't tried the > > command line solution yet as I believe a graphical application should not > > depend on it. > > > > How to add a destination? I select as Country Germany, and my City followed > > by Street and Number. And now? Any click on Map, Bookmark and Destination > > does nothing. I assume I have to be online for this step, this is fulfilled. > > > > I use version 1:0.1.0+svnr2735-r0.4 from the default feed. > It took we quite some time to make navit work for me > as well. Meanwhile I use it as gps-aware map and for > bike navigation. > > There's several aspects that need to be setup: > > - Supplying the map data as already pointed out by others. > I use europe.navit.bin. > - Setup you locale as described in [1] > - Tweak the layouts, to show the details you like to see. > I had to enable living streets for cars and paths for > bike for navit to find the routes as expected. > - Onscreen Display (I still need to tweak that) > - Audio guidance (I haven't set that up so far) > - Valid network connection to your freerunner to > use it as gps device for your desktop, if desired. > > It helped me a lot to split up configuration files > into one file per vehicleprofile and layout and include > those into the main navit.xml. That way you easily > compare different vehicleprofiles and layouts. > > The binary data supplied by cloudmade contains most of the > OSM information, you just need to make navit display it in > a reasonable manner concerning design and cpu usage. > There are some problems with finding cities as Martin > pointed out. Most bigger places seem to work though. > > You can have a look at my configuration at [2]. Note that > it's far from perfect but might help as a starting point. > > Cheers,
I pushed some changes to SHR repo few hours ago. We have better default config now and its splitted to 4 easier managable config files in /usr/share/navit. More tweaks will follow. But check new configs with next navit update (not sure when buildhost will build feed, because there is rebuild from scratch going..) Cheers, -- uin:136542059 jid:[email protected] Jansa Martin sip:[email protected] JaMa _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
