ModRana

modRana
Image:ModRana-icon.png

ModRana is a flexible GPS navigation system for mobile Linux devices.

Section: user/navigation
Maintainers: Martin Kolman
TMO-Thread: Link
Package: Link
Bugtracker: Link


Contents

Feature overview

GUI

  • big, finger friendly buttons
  • automatic landscape/portrait rotation

map display

  • from map tiles
  • semi-transparent layer-over-layer overlay is supported
  • map scaling (2X, 4X)
  • automatic map rotation

tile download

  • automatic (can be turned off)

batch tile download

  • current area, area currently shown on map, area around a tracklog
  • radius and zoomlevel range can be set
  • fully threaded, can be run in background, completion is signalized by a notification

tile storage

  • compatible with TangoGPS
  • optional sqlite tile storage (massive space savings)

online routing

  • using Google Directions
  • Point2Point, Adress2Address, to POI, Combined
  • detailed route info
  • result can be saved as a GPX tracklog
  • multilingual (English, Czech, Russian, Chinese, Spanish, German, ...)

Turn-by-turn navigation with voice directions

  • turn description shown per-turn with big friendly letters
  • navigation info box can by hidden into a button
  • voice directions work even when the screen is off
  • voice output can be turned off
  • power-users can edit voice parameters using the "manual" mode

tracklogs

  • in GPX format
  • optimized track display
  • route elevation profile
  • elevation data download from Geonames

track logging

  • configurable
  • statistics
  • directly to GPX

online POI search

  • using Google Local Search
  • search for ATMs, Pizza, WiFi, Landmarks, EV charging stations, etc.
  • addresses and telephone numbers for results
  • around current position, live distance display
  • custom query support

POI

  • you can save as a POI:
    • your current position
    • a point on the map
    • local search results
    • manually entered coordinates
  • easily accessible routing from current position to POI
  • easy stored POI modification
  • categories
  • CSV export

configurable UI

  • configurations are per mode (bike,car,bus,walking,train,etc.)
  • size and position of all UI elements can be customized
  • using the main config file
  • interactive configuration <- PLANED

information widgets

  • semi transparent
  • time, speed, stats, coordinates, route profile, distance remaining, etc.
  • also per mode
  • same config
  • also should be interactively configurable in the future

Roadmap

See the roadmap wiki page for the current modRana roadmap]. In short, the main item on the current roadmap is a new Qt based GUI, in addition to the current GTK based one.

Supported devices

Maemo 5 @ N900

ModRana is conveniently available directly from the location&navigation category in Extras-Devel.

MeeGo 1.2 @ N9,N950

Porting to Harmattan is a work in progress - see the [[modRana_Roadmap| roadmap] for more info. It is already possible to run modRana with the currently available GTK GUI but it should be much more usable once the Qt based GUI is in a usable state.


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