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great news, looking forward to it.

Another option: Save them as tiles in the area you would normally save them as tiles, and remember them for ingestion later? Just an idea.

I'm anxiously waiting for this.

Drove another 1000 km and it was a terrible experience navigation-wise.

When zoomed out to a 4.2km view, it was OK - not perfect, but alright, but zooming in, for instance to see when turns off of highways etc. were coming, the loading would get stuck, phone would slow down, modrana would bomb, and the phone would lock up necessitating a restart. All in all when driving at speeds, it couldn't be used.

I'm hoping your changes will make a significant improvement in memory and CPU usage, because like this it was really a nerve-wrecking experience, sorry to say this... When stopping at a gas-station and restarting modrana it was OK, could look ahead where I was driving but once exceeding 100km/h it was a BIG problem if you wanted to zoom in...

I have done some more field testing and the issue seems to be indeed fixed - it looks like the main culprit was not (only) the old FIFO tile loading but a constant redraw loop with centering.
Screen redraw is only needed when modRana gets a new GPS fix, which happens once a second (the highest frequency supported by liblocation), or when some event requires it (eq. zooming in, dragging the map, etc.).
Instead, the screen was redrawn constantly while centering was enabled, which was probably the cause of all the reported lags and responsibility issues.

tl.dr.:
I'll be doing a release today or tomorrow, once I fix a zooming bug that showed up.

Many thanks, I can't wait for this...

How do I work out which version I am running?

How I do it: open the application manager (where you install/update/remove apps) or Faster Application Manager. Select Remove App and find modRana in the list. FAM will show the version number next to it, in the official App Man (HAM) you will need to select modRana (and of course click NO on the question of uninstall )

V0.24-1 is out and it should be hitting the repositories any moment now

Whats new ?

• fix needless redrawing in centered mode slowing down map rendering
  This should fix the reported slow map redrawing while moving.
• fix GUI not redrawing after pressing buttons
  This should fix the slow GUO response - basically, the screen was not redrawn right away after clicking a button.
  
• new way of loading tiles which gives priority to currently visible tiles first
  One of my previous posts describes how this works.
  
• lowered default number of automatic tile download threads to lessen I/O load
  New default is 10, from previous 20.
  
• new info menu with an About submenu showing current version
  Well, finally. Expect to see more items soon in the "info" menu.
  
• better N900/Maemo 5/Freemantle integration
  • proper App-Menu which enables fast access to often used features (centering, map rotation, etc.)
    What do you think about this ? What else should I add ? As the space is limited, I'm thinking about making the content of this menu customizable.
    
  • volume keys are now used for zooming by default
    This can be disabled in options->Keys->Device buttons.
    
  • modRana now uses Hildon banners for notifications
  • zoom feedback using a Hildon banner
• sound can now be turned ON and OFF
  There is currently no separate setting for voice output as voice output is currently the only sound output modRana does.
  
• saving of automatically downloaded map tiles can be now turned off
  My testing showed it does not make much difference though...

love the AppMenu and the use of volume key for zoom.

cheers

Nice, but I can't wait for smooth zooming! Also, there is still about a half-second delay between first tapping on the screen and the buttons appearing.