Thread: Navit working on Iphone - get it on cydia

Originally Posted by Fiberoptic

We plan to do a video blog on this tomorrow morning, but here it is 4 days off the press:

http://wiki.navit-project.org/index.php/Navit_on_Iphone

Why dosen't navit have a torrent? Downloading the compiled map version is taking 2 hours. grr......!

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What works

• Routing
• GPS updates
• OSM maps
• Speech (OS<3.0)
• Track logs

I asked the same question about map torrents. The response I got was that because map data changes daily, it doesn't make much sense to create a torrent everyday. I suggested keeping a persistent map image alive for a month so that making a torrent makes sense. Map data isn't likely to change a whole lot in a month anyway.

There is a work in progress to allow patching the maps on the fly, but it will need more work.

About maps, you don't need to download the whole planet.bin : you can use http://maps.navit-project.org/download/ to get only the area in which you are interested.