AndNav2 app now Open Source
filed in Android on Dec.30, 2009
One of the first navigation apps available for Android at all has been AndNav which has been followed/superseeded later on by AndNav2. The app itself is based on the Openstreetmap dataset and is able to provide a turn-by-turn navigation feature including POI support, traffic and weather info, text-to-speech. It is also capable of position tracking. The supported map data for the navigation feature is currently concentrating on European countries with support for the US upcoming according to the site. We did not check out the latest US maps which seem to be available now covering the complete country.
Apparently the whole app is now available as an open source package due too the fact that the main programmer Nicolas Gramlich was not able to invest too much time into the project recently with no changes to the better ahead.
AndNav2 is not really a beauty in regards to modern UX (user experience) but still may be worthwhile to be checked out. Maybe some members of the community are able to pick up the ball and improve the app itself.
Check out the sources here.
December 31st, 2009 on 00:09
[...] AndNav2 app now Open Source – Androidian http://www.androidian.de/?p=882 – view page – cached One of the first navigation apps available for Android at all has been AndNav which has been followed/superseeded later on by AndNav2. The app itself is based on the Openstreetmap dataset and is able to provide a turn-by-turn navigation feature including POI support, traffic and weather info, text-to-speech. It is also capable of position tracking. The supported map data for the navigation… Read moreOne of the first navigation apps available for Android at all has been AndNav which has been followed/superseeded later on by AndNav2. The app itself is based on the Openstreetmap dataset and is able to provide a turn-by-turn navigation feature including POI support, traffic and weather info, text-to-speech. It is also capable of position tracking. The supported map data for the navigation feature is currently concentrating on European countries with support for the US upcoming according to the site. We did not check out the latest US maps which seem to be available now covering the complete country. View page [...]