"free" Navigator 10 by mapfactor.com ... uses OSM data

You are right - Japan is missing in the list of available MCA files. There was a bug in processing (found & fixed today), so I have ver0 of Japan now, but … there are two things to fix (from MapFactor side):

  1. the coast line is not fully integrated in earth_osm.mca, so you would see blue background (sea)
  2. Japan characters are replaced by space (similar problem is in China)

From the OSM point of view I see many towns named “edit_me”.

p.s. I will upload the data so I’ll see what I am writing about …

Hi,

I’ve been using Navigator 10 FREE now for a few days on a Garmn/Asus Nuvifone M10 (Windows Mobile 6.5 professional) and it works really well.

Ok - some comments/wishlists…

I’ve noticed that turn restrictions (no right turn) do not work in my neighbourhood, but I’m not sure if this will be corrected in a subsequent dataset of if maybe the relation is incorrect.

I’d like the program to announce which number road is the next one to turn into, Eg “In 500 metres take the second left into Smith Street”. (or the “next” left as appropriate).

I really like the “clockface” arrow that indicates the angle that the roundabout exit road makes to the current
direction of travel. However I’m one person that doesn’t like to look at the display while driving and (though I’ve never seen it on any sat-nav system), I’d love an option to turn on which would result (for example) in the
announcement…

"In 500 Metres at the roundabout, take the second exit at 2 O’Clock.

Regarding the routing, this program, like nearly all the others tries constantly to get you back to the original route when you take a wrong turn, rather than caculating a best route from your new position. My Garmin 3790T is the only one I’ve seen recaculate the new best route and that really impresses me.

I love the journey track saving option but think it could be improved by

a) allow the entire current journey to be shown on the display,
b) allow old journeys to be also shown (in either the same or different colours)
c) allow the NMEA tracks to be exported to GPX.

I sometimes like to see old tracks so that when I am mapping a whole town/village, I can see which roads I’ve missed.

Do you know if this program will be available unders Windows Phone 7? Does this depend on whether Microsoft make .NET framework available for this. If I can run Navigator 10 FREE and BASIC4PPC on Phone 7 then I’ll upgrade immediately.

The synthasised voice works perfectely although it would be nice to be able to edit the pronunciations.

There were a couple dubious routing announcements but these may be data errors and I will investigate further.

From my own situation, I’d like to see address search use admin level 6 (town/city in my case) rather than 10 (suburb) but maybe there could be an option to select between town search or suburb search.

PS I’d be more than happy to pay for a program with all these features but I do want my free/accurate/up-to-date OSM maps

Cheers
Nick

You should see Martinique on update now. An issue with “St. Lucia” is with ID (one version is st_lucia_osm and another is saint_lucia_osm) - we will verify all IDs (Setup Utility won’t download MCA if ID is different).


update: now both St Lucia as well as St Vincent-Grenadines are available - you will need to update Setup Utility to 10.1.21 and PC/Pocket Navigator to 10.1.37 in order to download and see the data.

@nafg
The crossing is really pretty crazy - could you please give me exact coordinates for departure and destination points so I could easily reproduce it? (or just send me routing_points.xml file)
thanks
Martin

Hi Nick,
thanks for your comments :).

I would need a coordinate of the junction (or better departure and destination coordinates near problematic area). As I wrote at the beginning of this post only simple restrictions are implemented.

You should hear it but only with computer generated voice.

I will fwd this comment, thanks.

:slight_smile: I hear usually the opposite, that it should return to original route instead of recalculating the route. It is recalculating, so if you put departure at given point you should see similar result - I write “similar”, because during navigation it also takes into account your current direction of travel.

These features rather fit in Map Explorer (different product) which is used for vehicle tracking, reports, etc.

No (as far as I know).

Can you be more specific? What country? We still discuss it on German forum (about Germany), so this part needs still some “tuning”.

Thanks :). At the end we still need some paying customers :wink:

not a problem for me…but some “condition” to pay the product :

  • update in realtime from OSM (download some specific area if you must use a preprocessor stage) and use immediatly. I don’t want to wait 2 month to view and use my correction on OSM.

  • low price (like 10 Euros or donator free profil like noniGPSplot for example)

Thanks for the reply Martin,

The turn restriction that doesn’t appear to work is…

No Right Turn
From -35.3446511, 149.2185807 (Uriarra Road)
Via -35.3446643, 149.2183460
To -35.3431870, 149.2186082 (McKeahnie Street)

The town/suburb issue can be seen at

Australia, New South Wales, Queanbeyan ( -35.3835340, 149.3067630 )
Admin Level 6 - City of Queanbeyan
Admin level 10 - Suburbs of Queanbeyan (e.g. Greenleigh)

Since I don’t like to take my eyes off the road while driving, I like the sat-nav to be very chatty. Here’s an example…

Driving north on 7th Street. The second road on the left is Main Street. Then I want to drive down Main Street and turn left into 2nd Street.

Navigator 10:

Carry on straight ahead
.
In 200 Metres turn left into Main Street
.
Turn left
.
Carry on straight ahead
.
900 metres from destination
.
Carry on straight ahead
.
Carry on straight ahead
.
500 Metres from destination
.
Carry on straight ahead
.
Carry on straight ahead
.
In 200 Metres turn left into 2nd Street
.
Turn Left
.
Arrive at Destination


My ideal Chatty Mode would announce something like

IN 300 Metres take second left into Main Street
.
In 200 Metres take next left into Main Street
.
Turn Left
.
In 1 Kilometre takes 5th left into 2nd Street
.
In 800 Metres take 4th left into 2nd Street
.
In 500 Metres take 2nd left into 2nd Street
.
In 200 Metres take next left into 2nd Street
.
Turn Left into 2nd street
.
Turn Left
.
Arrive at destination in 60 Metres

Arrived at destination.

You are right :(. I looked at http://www.openstreetmap.org/browse/relation/37693, that it is not “right turn” but “left turn”, but … there is a small portion of Uriarra Road, so from relation point of view it is like T-junction, and I have to check left/right. It should be working when both ways ends in “node via”. Am I right that there is no solution when “node via” is for both ways somewhere in the middle?! (it is not this case)

There are even two turn restrictions in that area that need some tuning! Try to load that area in JOSM, before be sure that you have a recent version of the turn restriction plugin installed there. Each relation can be checked by the plugin … and both relation are showing an error!

Martin’s guess seems to be right: all the two ways of a turn restriction relation have to END UP in the via-node.

Who wants to try the fabulous turn restriction plugin in order to fix it? :wink:

Thanks, this is a bug. For australia_osm was not created mapping of OSM admin_level into our admin levels (now there is a default mapping which should work also for Australia). Hopefully tomorrow I will have newer version from planet101201 where you should be able to search both by “City of Queanbeyan” as well as “Greenleigh” for example.

Thanks Martin, Stephan,

Going on holidays now. I’ll try to fix the relation this evening or tomorrow.

Cheers
Nick

Here’s the relevant portion from the xml:

NOROUTE145318295-266905294145889061-267288244Trainer146271232-266374176

It should be possible take route 440 to the Outerbridge Crossing, but it doesn’t even list route 440 – just route 440 connection. Also the bridge is divided in two, with half being a bit offset.
Thanks.

Technical question:

Navigator 10 can be improve when i update the OpenGL drivers on my mobile device ?
OpenVG for 2D application for example ? (subject: http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=442712 ).

Or it uses some other layer to generate the navigation feature (projected view) ?

I am so very excited to try out this wonderful software! But I don’t have my country’s maps sadly. Can you, Martin, kindly have the map for Pakistan converted? Can’t wait to use this navigator; I would be very grateful if I can get the map soon!

It’s so great to have a professional navigation software for free. Thank you for making this available for all.

The problem is in the detail, which you also pointed out “… the bridge is divided in two, with half being a bit offset.”. The “New Jersey” part is newer than “New York” and on the crossing somebody edit it between these two versions. The Node id=999102867 lat=40.524782; lon=-74.2464804 is new, so border crossing fails. Hopefully next time I could make whole USA from single planet.osm, but I still have problems with boundaries of some states.

Thanks for looking into it! So when’s the next sync? :slight_smile:

The map of Pakistan is on download now - let me know, if there is any problem.
thanks
Martin

Tonight … hopefully USA completed (with some manual tweaks of boundaries). There is also newer version of state New York so that it will match version of New Jersey & routing on the Outerbridge Crossing should work now.

Thank you so much… I really appreciate your quick response! Thank you!

Idea: move the “init bar status” (blue line on the bottom of the screen when you lauch the Navigator10) on a other place to better view the waiting time.

Idea2: don’t always ask to validate the OpenStreet Data participation at the starting process, does this every 20 lauching, for example.