On Friday 08 October 2010, Paul Hartman wrote: > I saw Sygic Mobile Maps in a friend's N900, it was definitely the > most "professional" of the list, and of course it costs money. I > don't think it is as good as other software available on other > platforms but for N900 it's the best you can get. As far as > search/POI, others like modRana might be better since they can query > Google etc. while Sygic is just using their own database which can > be limited and outdated at times. When I rode with him it seemed to Ovi Maps has the better search IMO, even if you have to use it online. You can just enter a street name, and it'll find the closest one to your position or view, or you can get a list of closest matches. With sygic you have to enter very detailed information, and if you leave something blank, it doesn't mean "don't care", it means "use the first option available in the list". I sometimes have to use Ovi Maps to find some place, and then copy the location into Sygic for navigation. In some instances, not even the locals who live at the destination know the correct details sygic wants for the search.. > lag behind pretty badly at certain points (it would tell us to turn > after we already passed the street, things like that), and it does > not speak street names, so if you're in an urban area "turn right in Outside cities it speaks road numbers for me, slightly distorted. For example it might call road 7430 "five t seventy-four thirty", and it took awhile before I realized the "five t" part was some nonsense not on actual road signs anywhere. The "prefix" seems to vary between different roads. > 200 meters" could be any of several streets. Because of that you > have to read the N900 screen as you drive, which is dangerous, and > also uses battery faster since you need to keep the backlight on. In general with version 10, the lag issues have mostly gone away for me, except for when I have bad GPS signal, which I often have in the location I like to keep my N900 in. I tried to solve it using an external bluetooth gps unit, but Location has so many bugs in N900 that actually introduces huge amounts of lag to sygic when you use an external bluetooth gps, it also reduced the fps to 1 and pegged the CPU. I managed to fix some of that in gypsy-daemon, though the response on bugs.maemo.org says my fix is wrong. Works for me in terms of eliminating lag and pegged cpu. I still have a timing issue, in that satellites will only sometimes be reported, and sygic and others seem to rely on satellites used to determine whether they're getting a good gps fix or some useless network based position. If they don't get the satellites, they don't ever do anything. Switching the bluetooth gps on/off and then tapping yes when maemo asks if you want to reconnect fixes it most of the time. I think the issue is that if I connect to the gps unit at the wrong time, it's sending the second part of a 3 part satellites message, and gypsy-daemon is unable to collect the 3 messages into complete satellite status if it doesn't start from the first message right away... More serious issue for me with sygic is its focus-stealing behaviour. It takes focus, even if it's not in view, every second. Even if conversations is on screen, all keypresses go into sygic. Sometimes after a long drive, it just crashes, or the voice guiding stops working. The latter also prevents sygic from shutting down cleanly, and it doesn't start again unless I kill the rogue process/thread left behind. Sometimes the keep-screen-alive thing also stops working, and I have to start tapping screen repeatedly or fiddle with the lock button. Despite all this I'm happier with Sygic MM10 than with Nokia Maps on my Symbian phone, which I'm now stuck with as my N900 is in for repairs. _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
