ModRana

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

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

Resources

• modRana project homepage
• modRana thread on talk.maemo.org