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[Timo Jyrinki <timo.jyrinki@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Oct 22, 2013 at 5:50 PM, Martin Fasani <martinfasani@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Question:
> I would love to have an offline map when I get lost in Berlin:
> http://downloads.cloudmade.com/europe/western_europe/germany/berlin#downloads_breadcrumbs
>
> Possible to use any application to open an OSM Open streets map ?

Earlier with the Neo FreeRunner phone I already used Debian's
FoxtrotGPS for general "where am I" sort of navigation and Navit for
car navigation with speech support. Both are still there in Ubuntu as
well, and have seen several updates. navit however needs heavy
configuration (or a ready-made GUI .xml file) to be touch friendly and
have speech support, but it's certainly doable.

Navit has a Qt frontend nowadays so maybe it could work as is (with
the mentioned configuration), or was it that QPainter based apps don't
work straight away, only QML/Quick? FoxtrotGPS is a GTK application
and we don't have support for normal X applications (or GTK on top of
Mir) yet.

And yes, Marble, as mentioned. And monav (the routing daemon of which
is used by Marble). All need some love so that they'd work
'out-of-the-box', but a lot of the heavy lifting of creating map and
navigation applications has been done already in the projects.

-Timo