This wonderful feature is now working. See the Downloads page for the link. Just look for the Click To Install button.
The .install file contents are:
[install]
catalogues = navit-builds
package = navit
[navit-builds]
name = Navit SVN Builds
uri = http://download.navit-project.org/navit/n800/svn/
dist = chinook
components = user
Before setting off to make more enhancements I decided to cleanup my dev environment. One thing that irritates me is having to ignore Warnings. So I spent some time figuring out why there were errors from ‘autogen.sh’.
Good news for Navit fans on Nokia N8×0’s. As of Navit SVN version 1843, gpsd will start up with Navit on N8×0. For the N800 you should have the BlueTooth GPS receiver on before starting Navit. Navit will start gpsd for you (via libgpsbt) and you are good to go.
Check the Downloads section on the top right for some relevant downloads.
I recently bought a used N800. And I went looking for a nice GPS package for use in the car. After trying a few I settled on Navit (http://navit-project.org)
Of course I wasn’t going to stop there, the N800 version from Maemo.org was old. So off to development land: (more…)