navigation app?
 

is the preinstalled maps the best navigation you can get for say using it for a car?

cheers

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No. it's not.. it's far from even being an ok navi software.. search around the forums to find the best one that will suit your needs..

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I recommend Navit, but you have to dig around in the Navit thread to find links to the latest version (the one in the repos is a bit old).

Cloud GPS is actually coming along nicely, but still no voice navigation. (However it can route internally, instead of having to connect to the internet to find a route.)

Ovi Maps (the preinstalled mapping software) CAN be hacked to be a lot better. There's some development on making it have voice navigation in progress - not the program itself (as it's closed source so we can't modify it) but by making another daemon run in the background that detects when the maps program is about to come to a turn on the route, and plays a sound file.

Then there's Mappero/Maemo Mapper, and a couple of other not-bad programs in development - but they all (some have voice navigation, some don't) can't route internally, they have to connect to the internet to do so.

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how about modRana

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not free, but sygic mobile maps is easily the best I've found. Theres a 14 day trial in the OVI store. Actually works like a proper GPS with turn by turn navigation

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I would recommend modrana. Internal routing is not there yet, but I believe it is being worked on. There is voice navigation, and support for offline map storage. And unlike sygic it's free.

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theres a key for sygic to unlock

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cheers for the surgestion will look into them but i would have thought by now there would be a turn by turn exactly like a satnav?

cheers

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Well since Nokia abandoned Maemo we will never see the Ovi Maps updated.. Sadly.. Unless they actually do get the Qt version of Ovi Maps out, then someone does port it back to Maemo..

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There's turn by turn voice navigation in Navit. Which is why I recommended it.

if modRana is working on internal routing, great.

Right now the best option in my eyes that has "everything" (turn by turn, voice navigation, AND internal routing) is Navit - the only other one that has the same features is Sygic, which isn't free. modRana, CloudGPS, and Maemo Mapper/Mappero and I think one or two others, are the next in line - they all have either turn-by-turn navigation with voice, or internal routing. Most don't have both, annoyingly.

Oh, and don't call voice navigation "turn-by-turn". Ovi Maps technically has turn-by-turn, as does just about every mapping program on Maemo - it shows you when each turn is - it's the voice part, where it announces those turns out loud, that's missing.

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I have not gotten Navit working very well (it was drawing a blank screen in December and I haven't used it since then), which is why I recommend modrana. I will test Navit next time I go for a long drive.

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skykooler: Did you download maps for it? It doesn't preinstall maps for you, at least not as far as I know. (I believe I used it back before december and it worked fine for me. You really have to do the map thing yourself though.

Personally, I would love for modRana, CloudGPS, Mappero/Maemo Mapper, or any of the other packages, to get either internal mapping and voice nav at the same time. If any other package had that with less hassle, I'd switch in a heartbeat. Manually getting every newest deb as you have to for Navit right now is a pain.

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I vote for Sygic as it worths every penny paid. It has localized voices and maps, and has amazing fast response. The downside is that it crashes on seaching, which makes setting destination difficult as I've to manually pinpoint the location on map.

Thanks Mentalist Traceur for recommending Navit, it sounds really great. I'll try and compare.

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Bah, I just realized I've been saying "Cloud GPS" while meaning to say "Marble" in my last few posts. With CSSU's forced rotation Navit works fine in portrait btw, it just needs a bit of .xml tweeks to have the layout realign a bit (but all the buttons are still visible).

Anyway, skykooler, I just got around to reinstalling Navit since my reflash, and the drawing a blank screen thing may have to do with it not auto-aligning to your position, even after it finds it. Just going to the menu, pressing Actions, selecting your position, and then the option that takes you there puts the map where you are. (Alternatively if you're unable to get signal, have it align to a city within the maps you've downloaded.)

9000: there's a thread called "Navit on N900" or something like that.

Read backwards from thr last page and you'll stumble upon a script a few pages in to download that will install the "latest" Navit for you. It's actually no longer the latest, so if you want the latest version you have to modify the names of the .deb files in that script accordingly, but if you can't figure out how to do that from the thread, you can just use it as is and get the almost latest version.