ModRana
ModRana is a flexible GPS navigation system for mobile Linux devices.
Section: user/navigation
Maintainers: Martin Kolman
TMO-Thread: Link
Package: Link
Bugtracker: Link
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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 [U]around a tracklog[/U]
- [U]radius[/U] and [U]zoomlevel range[/U] 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
- [U]result can be saved as a GPX tracklog[/U]
- multilingual (English, Czech, Russian, [I]Chinese[/I], 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
- [U]route elevation profile[/U]
- elevation data download from Geonames
track logging
- configurable
- statistics
- [U]directly to GPX[/U]
online POI search
- using Google Local Search
- search for ATMs, Pizza, WiFi, Landmarks, EV charging stations, etc.
- [U]addresses and telephone numbers[/U] 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 [U]routing from current position to POI[/U]
- easy stored POI modification
- categories
- CSV export
configurable UI
- configurations are [U]per mode[/U] (bike,car,bus,walking,train,etc.)
- [U]size and position of all UI elements can be customized[/U]
- 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 [[modRana_Roadmap| 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.