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NaviPOWM is planned to be a car navigation system capable of running on a variety of operating systems. Only OSM based map data is supported. Realtime routing engine is planned in a later version. Geocaching and city guide functionality are also planned.

New in version 0.2.6:
- fixed bugs:
- 2963285: Fehlermeldung bei Rauszoom (-)
- crash under Windows XP when displaying areas with holes
- areas with holes not drawn properly on Windows mobile
- implemented feature requests:
- 2013859: Support for gpsd
- other:
- more POI types
- more way types
- support more targets at once
- switch between targets by clicking on target display
- coastlines bugfixing

A new developer joined the team: trolldw

A new developer joined the team: iiizio

Testing for the upcoming release of version 0.2.6 has started.

NaviPOWM is planned to be a car navigation system capable of running on a variety of operating systems. Only OSM based map data is supported. Realtime routing engine is planned in a later version. Geocaching and city guide functionality are also planned.

New in version 0.2.5:
- fixed bugs:
- 2964054: speeds and oceantiles should be loaded from OSM2POWM path
- 2964466: Operator shown instead of name
- 2973833: TrackLog must show real GPSCoor
- 2974142: Oneway
- 2974500: Coastline bug when coastline also border
- 2976212: ROUNDABOUT
- implemented feature requests:
- 1828272: No aygshell.dll on PNA systems
- 2762052: Optimized display of greater areas
- 2959663: Add option -q for "quiet"
- 2976915: Option -b xmin,ymin,xmax,ymax for OSM2POWM
- 2979185: Visibility of speed-pos box adjustable
- 2979561: Make OSM2POWM use more than one thread
- 2980508: Show oneway arrow on streets
- 2991340: Save received data also as GPX file
- other:
- coastlines bugfixing and speedup
- area display (sea) speedup
- reorganized directories
- support for CMake

Testing for the upcoming release of version 0.2.5 has started.

Fixed installation bug for version 0.2.4 of NaviPOWM and OSM2POWM for Windows: included missing dll

NaviPOWM is planned to be a car navigation system capable of running on a variety of operating systems. Only OSM based map data is supported. Realtime routing engine is planned in a later version. Geocaching and city guide functionality are also planned.

New in version 0.2.4:
fixed bugs:
- 2863322: Switch for starting with last received / predefined coords
- 2864847: last.gps should be saved in SAVE
- 2864848: reopen serial port if open not successfully
- 2865065: buildings & OSM validation
- 2874653: wrong icon
implemented feature requests:
- 2832246: clock should display recorded NMEA time while in demo mode
- 2862718: Support new maxspeed Values
- 2865072: country boundaries too thick
- 2949605: Make size of zoom button configurable
other:
- switched to Qt 4.6.2 and MinGW with g++ 4.4.0 on Windows
- implemented coastlines
- more boundary types
- more POI types

Testing for the upcoming release of version 0.2.4 has started.

NaviPOWM is planned to be a navigation system capable of running on a variety of operating systems. At this time, only OSM based map data is supported. Realtime routing engine is planned in a later version. Geocaching and city guide functionality are also planned.

fixed bugs:
- 2783863: OSM validation failure
- 2789178: Do not exceed min / max lon / lat for osmosis split batch.
- 2793291: snap to road
- 2832238: displayed speed wrong in demo mode
implemented feature requests:
- 2726788: Show country boundaries
- 2798586: Show HDOP and Sunset/Sunraise
- 2807231: Show railways / trams
- 2810233: Make POI icon size configurable.
- 2810495: Make text background configurable for POIs: area or glow
- 2811076: Do not show ways of type addr:*
- 2822063: POIs: Distinguish between religions
other:
- extracted city images from POI images

Testing for the upcoming release of version 0.2.3 has started.

NaviPOWM is planned to be a navigation system capable of running on a variety of operating systems. At this time, only OSM based map data is supported. Realtime routing engine is planned in a later version. Geocaching and city guide functionality are also planned.

fixed bugs:
- 2764782: Splitting of sparse OSM files not OK
- fixed some minor drawing bugs
- fixed a small memory leak

implemented feature requets:
- 2726789: Red color for satellites in top bar too dark.
- 2726792: Make streets wider in low zoom
- 2736694: Show the Name of the city
- 2779556: Distinguish between residential and living_street.... read more

Testing for the upcoming release of version 0.2.2 has started.

NaviPOWM is planned to be a navigation system capable of running on a variety of operating systems. At this time, only OSM based map data is supported. Realtime routing engine is planned in a later version. Geocaching and city guide functionality are also planned.

fixed bugs:
- 2458457: Make compass point to geographic north
- 2480626: Add needed Qt DLLs in NaviPOWM package
- 2609132: There should be no simplification of ways in zoom level 0... read more

Testing for the upcoming release of version 0.2.1 has started.

Greetings,
Julian

NaviPOWM is planned to be a navigation system capable of running on a variety of operating systems. At this time, only OSM based map data is supported. Realtime routing engine is planned in a later version. Geocaching and city guide functionality are also planned.

fixed bugs:
- 1900169: QT Threading Assert Failure in r85
- 1978789: DEMO mode doesn't accept absolute file paths to NMEA log file
- 2263120: Black display on less than 32 bit color depth... read more

Team NaviPOWM welcomes a new developer: Adrián Benko (adrianbenko).

NaviPOWM is planned to be a navigation system capable of running on a variety of operating systems. At this time, only OSM based map data is supported. Realtime routing engine is planned in a later version. Geocaching and city guide functionality are also planned.

fixed bugs:
- adjusting InfoBarTopHeight was not working properly

implemented feature requests:
- 1834019: Allow absolute paths for maps directory.
- 1869075: "No GPS Device" Message implemented as satellite map.
- 1933651: Add minimize button.... read more

NaviPOWM is planned to be a navigation system capable of running on a variety of operating systems. At this time, only OSM based map data is supported. Realtime routing engine is planned in a later version. Geocaching and city guide functionality are also planned.

- implemented feature requests:
- 1828490: Show a trace on the map for last x minutes.
- 1829222: Compiling for WM2003SE.
- 1829512: Help search for unnamed streets.
- 1834085: Show current speed.
- 1834087: Show current height.
- 1834088: Show permitted speed if any.
- 1834089: Include permitted speed into map data.
- 1836283: Display (optional) a map scale.
- 1837396: Show compass.... read more

Team NaviPOWM welcomes a new developer: David Dean (cebidae).

NaviPOWM is planned to be a navigation system capable of running on a variety of operating systems. At this time, only OSM based map data is supported. Realtime routing engine is planned in a later version. Geocaching and city guide functionality are also planned.

- fixed bugs:
- 1826737: Win-Qt: Logo not disappearing
- 1828290: Medion P4410: Street name in DEMO not visible
- 1829024: redefinition of size_t (compile error on 64 bit)
- 1829056: problems with negative latitudes and longitudes
- 1829491: DEMO mode doesn't allow timeouts of less than 1 second... read more

NaviPOWM is planned to be a navigation system capable of running on a variety of operating systems. At the time, only OSM based map data is supported. Realtime routing engine is planned in a later version. Geocaching and city guide functionality are also planned.

Features of the first release:
- displays ways as scalable "vector graphic"
- free zoom
- locates itself on ways and displays name and ref of located way
- DEMO mode for playing recorded NMEA data (see wiki)
- saves received data (NMEA) to file
- configuration with INI file
- conversion tool for OSM files (OSM2POWM) ... read more

The upload of the source for NaviPOWM is completed and testing for the upcoming release of version 0.1.0 has started.

Greetings,
Julian

The upload of the source for NaviPOWM started today. Because every file gets polished and documented, this task may take some days or even weeks.

Greetings,
Julian