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[Martin Fasani <martinfasani@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks all,
I will try to test Marble for the offline maps thing.

And thanks Fabian, testing your code sounds good too, if you have some
minutes just drop me an email.


Just wondering, is out there any Public wish-list, where we can post
Usability enhancements and other things that arise when we use the system.

   - Network -> Sim Lock should be the first option above Wi-fi or
   configurable to pop each time you restart the phone. It's not straight
   forward to scroll down to be able to make calls

   - System time Issue
   At this time I could not do it with the GUI but I could do it later
   using command line

   <http://forum.xda-developers.com/showpost.php?p=44479088&postcount=1>
   - The sliding top Menu's are really difficult to use. The gray vs. gray
   contrast makes it very difficult to navigate in daylight and the list is
   way too long to be usable as an Horizontal scroll. Don't now what is the
   best take on this, but maybe icons would work a lot better.

   - Browser sometimes open with a blank screen of death. But it's not
   death tapping appears the navigation bar. Don't know if it's a bug but it
   happens most of the time I open the browser.
   Another recommendation will be to move the navigation bar on the top. I
   see no innovation in doing it the opposite way: it's just not natural to
   have it on the bottom


Great work so far, I'm not going back to Google!


2013/10/23 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
>



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