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Navit is now in [http://packages.debian.org/source/experimental/navit Debian experimental].
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Navit is now in Debian [http://packages.debian.org/source/testing/navit testing] and [http://packages.debian.org/source/unstable/navit unstable].
 
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The up-to-date source package is available through git at '''git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/navit.git''' ([http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/navit.git;a=summary browse]).
 
The up-to-date source package is available through git at '''git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/navit.git''' ([http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/navit.git;a=summary browse]).

Revision as of 22:56, 18 July 2009

Navit is one of the applications that runs on the Openmoko Phones. For a list of all applications, visit Applications

As described on the Navit home page,

"Navit is a car navigation system with routing engine.

Its modular design is capable of using vector maps of various formats for routing and rendering of the displayed map. It's even possible to use multiple maps at a time.

The GTK+ or SDL user interfaces are designed to work well with touch screen displays. Points of Interest of various formats are displayed on the map.

The current vehicle position is either read from gpsd or directly from NMEA GPS sensors."

Some people say Navit is also a good choice for pedestrian and bicycle navigation.

Navit-r2241

Contents

Acknowledgment

Thanks to Alessandro, stefan_schmidt, cp15 and all Navit developers I have done a small ("not really working") preview of Navit on Neo1973 at Telemobility Forum 2007. Thanks to GFoss guys to invite me. Tyrael

Setting up Navit

Install Navit

OM2008.x

You can now simply add a feed from there : http://download.navit-project.org/navit/openmoko/svn/

Essentially, to enable this directory as feed and install or update navit do:

  • Only for the first time:
echo src navit http://download.navit-project.org/navit/openmoko/svn > /etc/opkg/navit-feed.conf
opkg update
  • Always:
opkg install navit

Navit will be auto-updated when you run opkg upgrade later

Debian

Navit is now in Debian testing and unstable.

The up-to-date source package is available through git at git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/navit.git (browse).

FSO

I found that navit did not start fso-gpsd. I found the solution on the mailing list. Starting navit from the command line produced the following output:

navit:plugin_load:can't load '/usr/lib/navit/vehicle/
libvehicle_gpsd.so', Error 'libgps.so.16: cannot open shared object  
file: No such file or directory'
navit:vehicle_new:invalid type 'gpsd'

So I used the following workaround:

opkg install libgps17
ln -s /usr/lib/libgps.so.17 /usr/lib/libgps.so.16 

Set up the maps you want

The Easy Way

Use Navit pre-processed OSM maps. Navigate to the region you want, and click select to select it, select the region you want, then click download

If you just want the entire planet (as of this writing, ~1.8 GB), it's here.

CloudMade also has up-to-date maps from OpenStreetMap by country (by state in the US).

From the command line

OpenStreetMap - follow directions at http://wiki.navit-project.org/index.php/OpenStreetMaps

  • There are some pre-processed, up-to-date maps that can be grabbed with wget:
wget -O germany.bin http://maps.navit-project.org/api/map/?bbox=5.185546875,46.845703125,15.46875,55.634765625
wget -O map1.osm http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.5/map?bbox=-122.2,47.5,-122,47.7
wget -O map2.osm http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.5/map?bbox=-122.4,47.5,-122.2,47.7
wget -O map3.osm http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.5/map?bbox=-122.4,47.3,-122.2,47.5
wget -O map4.osm http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.5/map?bbox=-122.2,47.3,-122,47.5
  • A binary Navit map file needs to be created. The following uses osm2navit, and it's recommended that this command be used on something more powerful than the Neo:
cat *.osm | osm2navit --dedupe-ways mymap.bin

Copy the map to the NEO

To copy the map using scp (replace /directory as is appropriate in the following):

scp mymap.bin root@neo:/directory

Once it's somewhere on the NEO, Navit needs to know that it's there.

mkdir ~/.navit
cp /usr/share/navit/navit.xml ~/.navit/navit.xml
vi ~/.navit/navit.xml

In the navit.xml file, put the following into a new <mapset> section:

<map type="binfile" enabled="yes" data="/directory" />

Disable unused mapset sections by setting enabled to false.

  • Run navit
    • Start gllin (for GTA01)
    • Start gpsd ( gpsd /tmp/nmeaNP )
    • Start navit
  • The version of osm2navit with which you build the maps should match the version of navit you have. If in doubt, build the maps on the Openmoko.

Tips and Tricks

Center on Vehicle

Navit supports a "always center on vehicle" option.

To activate this add

follow="3"

to the vehicle tag in navit.xml. The "3" causes to give the gui time to do something between the repaints (drag the map or browse the menu). When its set to "1" navit does nothing more than repainting the map continuously.

Enter Country

Before you can search for City you have to select a Country. To do that, click on the icon in the left upper corner of the search field (could look like a white square with blue top-left quadrant). The search is still a little buggy.

News

Getting the display right

If using SHR the keyboard in country/town/street search mode does not fit on the street, make sure your gui configuration is set to the following line:

<gui type="internal" font_size="350"/>

The example line provided for freerunners hides some important icons. Namely, instead of typing your city name first, you will first have to click the button on the top left, to go into country search mode. Enter your country name, then the city name, in order to enable the search function. This requires your map data to be searchable.

Street names

They are now displayed on Openmoko using the CVS version of Navit (20071217).

Point selection by pen

Easier using the CVS version (20071217).


Speech

Navit can speak if you install eSpeak + speech-dispatcher and updates your navit.xml file.

For adventurous people, one way to do this:

  • mokoTTS aims to integrate these packages in OM:

http://projects.openmoko.org/projects/mokotts/

install espeak, dotconf, and then speech-dispatcher. note: running 2008.8 updating from zecke's "testing" repo does not require "dotconf"

  • change the speech tag in navit.xml:

<speech type="cmdline" data="spd-say '%s'" />

or "spd-say -l fr '%s'" for using the French voice for example.

Note: Package speech-dispatcher broke my audio after suspend with current SHR (2009-04-13, though the problem's not shr, but speech-dispatcher itself). A solution is to disable starting of speech-dispatcher with:

update-rc.d -f speech-dispatcher remove

And then edit /usr/bin/navit, so that it starts speech-dispatcher before navit, and stops it afterwards. See http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html#nabble-td1088795

Alternatively, you can make speech-dispatcher restart on resume, see http://trac.shr-project.org/trac/ticket/494

Maps

Downloadable Maps

Downloadable OSM maps for most areas of the world are available free in Navit format from Cloudmade at http://downloads.cloudmade.com/. Simply navigate to the country or region you want and download the .navit.bin.zip version of the map. You'll have to exatract the .bin file from the ZIP archive before using it with Navit.

Planet extract

You can download pre-compiled (ready-to-use) maps using the OpenStreetMap-data from the the navit planet extractor ;-)]™ which allows you to select a region of OpenStreetMap to extract. This will give you a binary file that can be used directly by Navit without further processing. The planet extractor's map data is updated daily.

Script to download OSM maps

Wurp wrote a little python script to download all OSM maps within a lat/long rectangle. Just copy the script to a file called dlOSM.sh, chmod +x it, and run it like dlOSM.sh <minimum latitude> <maximum latitude> <minimum longitude> <maximum longitude>

It takes a long time for large maps. I could optimize it some by having it try to get a big section at once, then if it fails, break it into smaller pieces and recurse. I'm not sure when/if I'll get around to that...

dlOSM.sh:

#!/usr/bin/python

import os
import sys
#import math

def doIt(cmd):
  os.system(cmd)

def getOsms(basename, minLat, maxLat, minLon, maxLon):
  '''basename - base name of map, maps are named {basename}{count}.osm
  minLat - latitude of the west side of the map
  maxLat - latitude of the east side of the map
  minLon - longitude of the north side of the map
  maxLon - longitude of the south side of the map'''

  wgetCmdTemplate = 'wget -O %s%s.osm http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/map?bbox=%s,%s,%s,%s'

  currLat = minLat
  mapCount = 0
  while currLat < maxLat:
    nextLat = min(currLat + 0.1, maxLat)

    currLon = minLon
    while currLon < maxLon:
      nextLon = min(currLon + 0.1, maxLon)

      doIt(wgetCmdTemplate % (basename, mapCount, currLon, currLat, nextLon, nextLat))

      currLon = nextLon
      mapCount = mapCount + 1

    currLat = nextLat

(minLat, maxLat, minLon, maxLon) = map(float, sys.argv[1:])
getOsms('map', minLat, maxLat, minLon, maxLon)


Screenshot-3.png Navit

Navit is a car navigation system with routing engine.


Homepage: http://navit.sourceforge.net
Package:
Tested on:

Personal tools

Navit is one of the applications that runs on the Openmoko Phones. For a list of all applications, visit Applications

As described on the Navit home page,

"Navit is a car navigation system with routing engine.

Its modular design is capable of using vector maps of various formats for routing and rendering of the displayed map. It's even possible to use multiple maps at a time.

The GTK+ or SDL user interfaces are designed to work well with touch screen displays. Points of Interest of various formats are displayed on the map.

The current vehicle position is either read from gpsd or directly from NMEA GPS sensors."

Some people say Navit is also a good choice for pedestrian and bicycle navigation.

Navit-r2241

Acknowledgment

Thanks to Alessandro, stefan_schmidt, cp15 and all Navit developers I have done a small ("not really working") preview of Navit on Neo1973 at Telemobility Forum 2007. Thanks to GFoss guys to invite me. Tyrael

Setting up Navit

Install Navit

OM2008.x

You can now simply add a feed from there : http://download.navit-project.org/navit/openmoko/svn/

Essentially, to enable this directory as feed and install or update navit do:

  • Only for the first time:
echo src navit http://download.navit-project.org/navit/openmoko/svn > /etc/opkg/navit-feed.conf
opkg update
  • Always:
opkg install navit

Navit will be auto-updated when you run opkg upgrade later

Debian

Navit is now in Debian testing and unstable.

The up-to-date source package is available through git at git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/navit.git (browse).

FSO

I found that navit did not start fso-gpsd. I found the solution on the mailing list. Starting navit from the command line produced the following output:

navit:plugin_load:can't load '/usr/lib/navit/vehicle/
libvehicle_gpsd.so', Error 'libgps.so.16: cannot open shared object  
file: No such file or directory'
navit:vehicle_new:invalid type 'gpsd'

So I used the following workaround:

opkg install libgps17
ln -s /usr/lib/libgps.so.17 /usr/lib/libgps.so.16 

Set up the maps you want

The Easy Way

Use Navit pre-processed OSM maps. Navigate to the region you want, and click select to select it, select the region you want, then click download

If you just want the entire planet (as of this writing, ~1.8 GB), it's here.

CloudMade also has up-to-date maps from OpenStreetMap by country (by state in the US).

From the command line

OpenStreetMap - follow directions at http://wiki.navit-project.org/index.php/OpenStreetMaps

  • There are some pre-processed, up-to-date maps that can be grabbed with wget:
wget -O germany.bin http://maps.navit-project.org/api/map/?bbox=5.185546875,46.845703125,15.46875,55.634765625
wget -O map1.osm http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.5/map?bbox=-122.2,47.5,-122,47.7
wget -O map2.osm http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.5/map?bbox=-122.4,47.5,-122.2,47.7
wget -O map3.osm http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.5/map?bbox=-122.4,47.3,-122.2,47.5
wget -O map4.osm http://www.openstreetmap.org/api/0.5/map?bbox=-122.2,47.3,-122,47.5
  • A binary Navit map file needs to be created. The following uses osm2navit, and it's recommended that this command be used on something more powerful than the Neo:
cat *.osm | osm2navit --dedupe-ways mymap.bin

Copy the map to the NEO

To copy the map using scp (replace /directory as is appropriate in the following):

scp mymap.bin root@neo:/directory

Once it's somewhere on the NEO, Navit needs to know that it's there.

mkdir ~/.navit
cp /usr/share/navit/navit.xml ~/.navit/navit.xml
vi ~/.navit/navit.xml

In the navit.xml file, put the following into a new <mapset> section:

<map type="binfile" enabled="yes" data="/directory" />

Disable unused mapset sections by setting enabled to false.

  • Run navit
    • Start gllin (for GTA01)
    • Start gpsd ( gpsd /tmp/nmeaNP )
    • Start navit
  • The version of osm2navit with which you build the maps should match the version of navit you have. If in doubt, build the maps on the Openmoko.

Tips and Tricks

Center on Vehicle

Navit supports a "always center on vehicle" option.

To activate this add

follow="3"

to the vehicle tag in navit.xml. The "3" causes to give the gui time to do something between the repaints (drag the map or browse the menu). When its set to "1" navit does nothing more than repainting the map continuously.

Enter Country

Before you can search for City you have to select a Country. To do that, click on the icon in the left upper corner of the search field (could look like a white square with blue top-left quadrant). The search is still a little buggy.

News

Getting the display right

If using SHR the keyboard in country/town/street search mode does not fit on the street, make sure your gui configuration is set to the following line:

<gui type="internal" font_size="350"/>

The example line provided for freerunners hides some important icons. Namely, instead of typing your city name first, you will first have to click the button on the top left, to go into country search mode. Enter your country name, then the city name, in order to enable the search function. This requires your map data to be searchable.

Street names

They are now displayed on Openmoko using the CVS version of Navit (20071217).

Point selection by pen

Easier using the CVS version (20071217).


Speech

Navit can speak if you install eSpeak + speech-dispatcher and updates your navit.xml file.

For adventurous people, one way to do this:

  • mokoTTS aims to integrate these packages in OM:

http://projects.openmoko.org/projects/mokotts/

install espeak, dotconf, and then speech-dispatcher. note: running 2008.8 updating from zecke's "testing" repo does not require "dotconf"

  • change the speech tag in navit.xml:

<speech type="cmdline" data="spd-say '%s'" />

or "spd-say -l fr '%s'" for using the French voice for example.

Note: Package speech-dispatcher broke my audio after suspend with current SHR (2009-04-13, though the problem's not shr, but speech-dispatcher itself). A solution is to disable starting of speech-dispatcher with:

update-rc.d -f speech-dispatcher remove

And then edit /usr/bin/navit, so that it starts speech-dispatcher before navit, and stops it afterwards. See http://lists.openmoko.org/nabble.html#nabble-td1088795

Alternatively, you can make speech-dispatcher restart on resume, see http://trac.shr-project.org/trac/ticket/494

Maps

Downloadable Maps

Downloadable OSM maps for most areas of the world are available free in Navit format from Cloudmade at http://downloads.cloudmade.com/. Simply navigate to the country or region you want and download the .navit.bin.zip version of the map. You'll have to exatract the .bin file from the ZIP archive before using it with Navit.

Planet extract

You can download pre-compiled (ready-to-use) maps using the OpenStreetMap-data from the the navit planet extractor ;-)]™ which allows you to select a region of OpenStreetMap to extract. This will give you a binary file that can be used directly by Navit without further processing. The planet extractor's map data is updated daily.

Script to download OSM maps

Wurp wrote a little python script to download all OSM maps within a lat/long rectangle. Just copy the script to a file called dlOSM.sh, chmod +x it, and run it like dlOSM.sh <minimum latitude> <maximum latitude> <minimum longitude> <maximum longitude>

It takes a long time for large maps. I could optimize it some by having it try to get a big section at once, then if it fails, break it into smaller pieces and recurse. I'm not sure when/if I'll get around to that...

dlOSM.sh:

#!/usr/bin/python

import os
import sys
#import math

def doIt(cmd):
  os.system(cmd)

def getOsms(basename, minLat, maxLat, minLon, maxLon):
  '''basename - base name of map, maps are named {basename}{count}.osm
  minLat - latitude of the west side of the map
  maxLat - latitude of the east side of the map
  minLon - longitude of the north side of the map
  maxLon - longitude of the south side of the map'''

  wgetCmdTemplate = 'wget -O %s%s.osm http://api.openstreetmap.org/api/0.6/map?bbox=%s,%s,%s,%s'

  currLat = minLat
  mapCount = 0
  while currLat < maxLat:
    nextLat = min(currLat + 0.1, maxLat)

    currLon = minLon
    while currLon < maxLon:
      nextLon = min(currLon + 0.1, maxLon)

      doIt(wgetCmdTemplate % (basename, mapCount, currLon, currLat, nextLon, nextLat))

      currLon = nextLon
      mapCount = mapCount + 1

    currLat = nextLat

(minLat, maxLat, minLon, maxLon) = map(float, sys.argv[1:])
getOsms('map', minLat, maxLat, minLon, maxLon)


Screenshot-3.png Navit

Navit is a car navigation system with routing engine.


Homepage: http://navit.sourceforge.net
Package:
Tested on: