Turn by Turn alternative GPS app in Mobian

[Baggypants]

I have maps working on Navit. This issue is because the Debian packages don't contain the layout xml files needed to display the maps.

You need to grab a layout file like car_android_shipped.xml and edit the navit.xml line that has the NAVIT_SHARDIR variable at the bottom to point to the dir with the layouts in. e.g.

Code:

<xi:include href="/home/mobian/Documents/navit.maps/layouts/navit_layout_*.xml"/>

To make it look extra cool you can set up the font and icon sizes. This is the line I'm using

Code:

<gui type="internal" font_size="300" fullscreen="1" icon_l="128" enabled="yes">

Also set up a custom osd description. I used This Layout as a test and it worked pretty well.



Now we can talk about getting gps in to it. Everyone seems focussed on Navit allows gpsd, but it also works with serial devices https://navit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/c...x.html#gps Maybe a named pipe from mmcli, or some other stupid idea!


Edit: have put in a GeoClue integration request with navit https://github.com/navit-gps/navit/issues/1032

Edit2: Upstream packaging bug https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrepor...bug=967960