I believe path is to see where you have been, and route is to map a route, not sure about voice nav.
ah, alright.
then i have another suggestion
to make path different from route, let the path icon contain a long and complicated track around those blocks, maybe in red dots.
a route should be the simplest possibility (a clear and unique way from A to B), whereas the path (your tracks) can be all over the place, depending on where you have been.
How about changing the dot representing the person into a triangle indicating the direction travelled? So the path has the triangle pointing away from the path, and the route has the triangle pointing at the route.
Also, the destination on the route icon could be an X maybe?
EDIT: The path should also be the reverse of the route. That is, the "this is you" marker should be at one end of the line for path and at the other end for route. I'm thinking the bottom of the icon for path.
I believe path is to see where you have been, and route is to map a route, not sure about voice nav. Hopefully mardy can come and clear that up, I think I have 2 more icons to go. I'll try to see what I can do about the path icon, it isn't very intuitive.
ahh i think now i know the difference between routh and path, the icons pretty much it.
Turn-by-turn voice guided navigation software Sygic Mobile Maps converts mobile phones into full-featured navigation devices. Sygic now extends its current compatibility range to support the new Nokia Maemo 5 OS devices. Further operating systems supported already are iPhone, Symbian, Android and Windows Mobile, incl. Windows Mobile 6.5.
“We are happy to announce the compatibility of Sygic Mobile Maps with Nokia’s new Maemo 5 OS. Currently we are in the phase of quality assurance performing final tests. We are working hard to launch it for sales by the end of 2009, but we won’t hesitate to make this sooner anytime when ready.” Anna Hurbanic, Sygic’s PR Manager
no idea how good it would be, but i know that openrouteservice.org uses pyroute for calculating routes for europe and libchamplain provides a nice clutter actor for displaying maps and might gain some nice features for routes etc in the near future through plugins.
so how about glueing them together and create a free navigation system?
using openstreetmap data, routing via pyrouta, sound via ... i don't know actually speex maybe? no idea.
however, i have no clue if there is any way to get something like free traffic data or if maybe it's possible to use the traffic data google gets.
