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Oh wow, sorry I wasn't paying attention for edits. :P

Is the N810 still feasible? The much faster N900 is barely holding ground as a smart(phone) device, and second hand price is dropping like it's hot.

feasable? Yes. The Opera browser did add life to the device and NAVIT was a godsend over Maemomapper (and now OviMaps which I tried out on the road today. No turn warnings and no live rerouting. Absolute fail). You can do a lot but it's slow as hell and the newer features on FB etc. lack of a functioning twitter app just got on my nerves after a while. I do miss that relatively HUGE screen though. It was the first difference I noticed (aside from the fact that this 900 is huge). I bought the 900 'cause the phone I was using to tether was starting to go south so I decided if I was going to lay out for phone then it was either an iPhone or N900. I may still regret the decision, but I figure I am deep in Apple (Macbook, iPad, Tower) that I can keep up with IOS stuff (which I need to do professionally) but still use this as my linux/unix escape. That and I enjoy not having to carry around a mess of devices. I had an 800 and had to buy a special carrier for the external GPS, phone and tablet. I don't miss that at all. I bought the 900 off ebay for much less than 1/2 it was retailing for. I refused to pay the retail price for this given how Nokia has had a habit of dropping support quickly and the app developers (not all) essentially drop all updates. Honestly had someone created a FB widget/client that supported places and a twitter client/widget for the 810/Diablo I'd probably have not bought the 900.

But this is waaaay off topic. lol

Thanks for sharing anyway. I didn't realize you have all those Maemo devices. I'm a professional signature ignorer.

simpler instructions than managing sources with fapman:

echo "deb http://bokomoko.de/~rd/maemo/ unstable/" | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/navit.list
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install libfreetype6-navit navit navit-graphics-qt-qpainter navit-gui-qml

Some time ago I had a somewhat working navit configuration, including text-to-speech svg-icons and OSD, mostly scrounged together from this forum. Then an update came and navit crashed on start. I got it running again by removing my custom configuration files. But no map, no OSD, not even GPS. I was able to fix gps and map, but the rest is still broken.

Does anyone have a working configuration for navit on the n900?

Is it not possible to distribute a working configuration for navit on the n900 together with the navit package?

Hi

Trying to install today I get the following error:
The following packages have unmet dependencies:
navit: Depends: navit-data (= 0.2.0+dfsg.1-1maemo1~4772) but 0.2.0~svn2916+dfsg.1-1maemo1 is to be installed
E: Broken packages

Any way I can solve this would be appreciated - Thanks

mykey

Would someone pleeeeeeease show me how to use garmin maps on navit... am a noob so step by step please...

i installed navit from repos and navit-dbg and downloaded a bin map and put it in navit_maps folder in MyDocs and pointed maps.xml to that bin file and it worked but when trying to use garmin it's a hell of mess.

when i try to download libgarmin the way this site http://wiki.navit-project.org/index.php/Garmin_maps says to xterminal says "svn not found".

so i tried to find this libgarmin some other way and finally after some long search i found a deb file that installs libgarmin svn-20080313
i installed it and did what the above site says about editing maps.xml and navit.xml but garmin map still doesn't appear in navit..

help me please ASAP..

I think the problem is that you have still old navit packages from the extras repository installed.

I suggest to remove first all navit packages. Maybe

apt-get purge navit navit-data navit-dbg <and other packages you have installed>

To find packages you have installed, list the navit packages by

apt-cache serach navit

Then

apt-cache show <package-name>

should tell you, if the package is installed.

it's not exactly maemo/n900, but:

is there a way to configure navit to show a marker for the location it shows? ie, when i search for a street, navit shows a map of the area -- but no indicator where in the area shown the street is!
for larger cities with many streets this means that the search is nearly useless, since i am unable to locate the street (no name shown) and when zooming i might as well move away from that street.

Having problems launching navit. fap installed all well but when i launch navit from the terminal line it gave me following message:

navit:main_real:trying /home/user/.navit/navit.xml
plugin_osso: osso_navit: error initiating osso context
navit: plugin_load:can't load '/opt/navit/lib/navit/osd/libosd_core.so', already loaded

any idea? if i try to start it from icon, it breaks..

greets

matthias