Bounty for Navit delopment - Free freerunner - anyone?

[Yorick Moko]

I suggest you all try the new navit
(http://download.navit-project.org/navit/openmoko/svn/navit-svn-2308_armv4t.opk)
it has a few improvements which MAKE IT USABLE WITH OSM (seems like it
was already usable with map&guide reiseplanner):
*added a 20 MB cache for the FR
*there was a bug until a few days ago which made the navigation to
recalculate at every update (mostly with OSM)

time to calculate route is now acceptable and re-calculating also!



On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Tilman Baumann<tilman at baumann.name> wrote:
> Hello navit community.
>
> This idea was brought up at the openmoko mailinglists.
> I just wanted to ask you guys if this makes sense to you before we proceed.
>
> So far this is only a brain fart of me, but if it is worthwhile I would
> try to push this in the openmoko community.
>
> Would it help if the openmoko community sponsors a freerunner to someone
> who can optimise navit for this device?
> Navit is by far the most promising and most important app for openmoko,
> but unfortunately it is very slow and not perfectly prepared to the whole
> situations.
> For example I believe it still uses the gpsd emulation instead of the
> gypsy api and so on...
>
> The whole thread is there (Best graphics performance?)
> http://lists.openmoko.org/pipermail/support/2009-May/thread.html#5440
>
>
> PS: Please kepp both lists in CC ;-)
>
> Tilman Baumann wrote:
>>
>> arne anka wrote:
>>>> Don't ask me what to do, I'm not a computer scientist. But I'm sure it
>>>> would be possible.
>>>
>>>
>>> well, maybe we all should chip in and give the navit author a
>>> freerunner,
>>> to spur his motivation :-)
>>
>> If that is the fix, count me in as a supporter.
>> A FR optimised build would be really great. Not just from performance
>> prospective, but also the right default config for example.
>>
>> Maybe we canuse one of these services that allow you to set bounties for
>> opensource developments...
>>
>> --
>> MFG
>>  Tilman Baumann
>>
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>
> --
> MFG
>  Tilman Baumann
>
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