Turn by Turn alternative GPS app in Mobian
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Navit can do it, at least in theory. In practice I'm still trying to get it to work, and the interface is like an old car navigation unit which may not be what you're after. You need a custom config file to at least use fullscreen by default, and to tell it which map file(s) to use. It seems unable to parse the map data I've downloaded either directly or copied from a working instance on an android phone. Desktop ubuntu fails the same way, so it may be an issue with the debian package. It also requires gpsd which needs manual intervention on Mobian.

Pure Maps looks promising, but isn't packaged for debian yet. I've tried the flatpak version on my desktop and it's much more like what you'd expect to fine on a phone. It's mostly for online maps, but with a companion app (OSMScoutServer IIRC) it can do maps offline - I'm not sure about navigation. I don't know whether it uses gpsd, ModemManager's location, GeoClue or what, so I don't know if manual intervention will be needed.
https://flathub.org/apps/details/io.gith...s.PureMaps

Marble might work, but I've not used it that way before.

Or get Anbox working and use Osmand.

Also worth knowing is that the GPS can take a long time to get a fix. This should improve once AGPS data download makes its way into distros.
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RE: Turn by Turn alternative GPS app in Mobian - by wibble - 07-16-2020, 10:25 AM

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