modRana is a flexible GPS navigation system for mobile Linux devices.
Currently supported features @ Sailfish:
- showing current position and direction of travel on the map
- map tile caching (each tile is downloaded only once)
- fast and robust tile loading and downloading
- persistent map overlay support
- a great lot of various map layers
- support for OSM Scout Server
- supported features:
- map layers (day & night)
- place search
- local search
- routing
- how to run OSM Scout Server on your device see:
- simple yet powerful point to point routing support
- long click a point on the map for quick routing
- turn by turn navigation support
- press the navigate button to start navigation
- built-in POI database - store any points and look them up later! :)
- store points from map or search results
- use stored POIs as local search location
- supports both landscapes and both portraits
- address search, powered Nominatim and based on OpenStreeMap data
- this is not strictly address search, queries such as "london tesco" will find all Tescos in London
- you can also search for restaurants and other amenities with unique names, such as "Delirium cafe", which will find the venue of the annual FOSDEM beer event
- Wikipedia search
- local search
- search for various amenities around your current location
- generic keywords such as "pizza", "food", "pub", "restaurant" or "WC" work
- searching specific amenity names (restaurant, hotel names, etc.) also works
- search results are displayed as markers on the map
- track recording into the GPX format is supported
- can display GPX tracklogs on the map
- page displaying current speed in nice friendly letters
- detailed GPS info display
- keeps screen on by default
- you can use the volume rocker to zoom the map
- compass rose can be displayed on the map screen
- localized to many languages
- about page & donation links ;-)
Known issues
- some Options pages are empty
- compass rose not working on Sailfish X yet due to broken compass API
modRana is open source! :)
And all its source code is available on GitHub in the modRana source code repository. So if you can code and would like to contribute to modRana development, even with the smallest of patches, you are definitely welcome! :)
Additional resources:
Comments
kold1981
Mon, 2014/06/09 - 00:14
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Ok great news , thanks again for the great work :)
MartinK
Tue, 2014/07/29 - 02:03
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So FYI, map overlay support has been added in 0.48.1. Looking forward to you feedback! :)
kold1981
Tue, 2014/07/29 - 02:28
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Great but sadly enough for me when i start modrana after update i just get an empty screen
i tried rebooting my phone and reinstalling app but no change
What can i do to help? any log files ?
MartinK
Tue, 2014/07/29 - 02:36
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Looks like I made a packaging error - new package is already building and I'll upload it in a minute. :)
kold1981
Tue, 2014/07/29 - 02:37
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Great i'm in france and it's getting late but i'll stay up to test that :)
kold1981
Tue, 2014/07/29 - 02:53
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ok just gave a quick try with osm mapnick as main map and google traffic overlay (main reason i use the overlay) and it works great so thanks for the great work :)
i'll try it a bit more in next few days and keep you posted
MartinK
Tue, 2014/07/29 - 02:52
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Thanks a lot! :D
BTW, 0.48.2 is in and and at least on my device it seem to work fine.
Well, I guess I should really improve my before-upload package testing methodics. :)
kold1981
Tue, 2014/07/29 - 02:54
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lol np it happens :)
thanks again for the great work :)
Duro
Sun, 2014/05/25 - 11:18
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Works great as a basic map application allready. Thank you for that. Still waiting for the turn by turn navigation and offline maps. That would be awesome. You'll probably get it running before Jolla itself gets their navigation going. :) Still, good work and looking forward for the new features.
One thing though. For some reason the maps don't seem to update that fast when I try zooming in on the map. Takes a couple of seconds before it does it.
MartinK
Sun, 2014/06/08 - 17:35
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Thanks, much appreciated! :)
@slow tile loading: This was caused by the way how asynchronous image loading works in Qt, but I've worked around it and tile loading and downloading should now be much faster in the freshly released modRana 0.47.1. :)
stephan0h
Wed, 2014/04/23 - 00:37
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Hi,
Very well done, I like it! Only one problem: modRana does not seem to (re)load maps for me. Maybe I have done something wrong with the settings, but I can't get it to load maps anymore. So mostly I only get to see the grey background. Help please!
thanks,
stephan
MartinK
Wed, 2014/04/23 - 00:47
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Thanks, I'm glad you like modRana! :)
Do you have the latest modRana installed ? The recently released 0.46.4 has a fix for the exact issue you describe.
To check your modRana version, go to:
menu->Info->About and check the version: line
Alternativelly you can also check the version from Warehouse. :)
stephan0h
Fri, 2014/05/02 - 01:06
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thanks for the hint. updated modrana and now it works. cool.
naytsyrhc
Fri, 2014/04/04 - 10:43
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The goal is to provide turn-by-turn navigation as well? This would be gorgeous. Wating eagerly for it. Thanks for providing such a powerful app for Sailfish.
MartinK
Mon, 2014/04/07 - 01:42
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Thanks, I'm glad you like modRana! :)
@turn-by-turn Sure, that's planed - with support for using both online and offline routing.
BTW, turn-by-turn navigation is already imeplemented in the backend and supported in the GTK GUI running on the N900 & desktop Linux. So for the Sailfish port it "just" needs a new UI part & some text-to-speech software for pronouncing the directions (such as Espeak/Festival or something similar).
Jordi
Sun, 2014/03/02 - 14:28
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Great app!
Eagerly waiting for the tracklog features!
The tiles are displayed rather slowly even though they are already loaded, can this be improved?
MartinK
Wed, 2014/03/05 - 04:07
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Thanks! :)
@track loging: Sure, I'm currently studying how to best handle the trace drawing on the map. :)
@tile loading: I'm aware of some bottlenecks in the current tile loading code and have some improvements planned. :)
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