Thanks for your replies. I have an android phone, but in Car I prefer to use my 4.3 inch screen windows CE device. I was using Oziexplorer CE and intend to use that for offroad applications, but for in city navigation, esp when I travel abroad, I want something which can allow me to<br>
1. Create tracklogs<br>2. Navigate along a GPS track(saved from google earth and then edited in viking or something)<br>3. Navigate to a POI<br><br>I did try Navit on my android, but it has only "address" navigation option. Navigate to POI is not there. I guess I will read the manual or something<br>
<br>regards<br>Tanveer<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 11, 2011 at 10:59 PM, Kai Krueger <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kakrueger@gmail.com">kakrueger@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Another good option for an offline routing application is mapFactor Navigator<br>
Free ( <a href="http://navigatorfree.mapfactor.com/en/" target="_blank">http://navigatorfree.mapfactor.com/en/</a> ). It runs on Windows PCs,<br>
Windows Mobile devices and Windows CE devices. The latter covering pretty<br>
much any current or older PND apart from Garmin and TomTom.<br>
<br>
Navigator Free is a closed source application with a closed data format, so<br>
you can only get map updates from them. However, they do seem to regularly<br>
provide updates and have a decent selection of countries available and it is<br>
completely free of charge.<br>
<br>
On the plus side, coming from an established commercial routing provider,<br>
the overall quality seems fairly high and appears to be one of the most user<br>
friendly and polished programs I have seen so far (although for a lack of an<br>
iPhone or Android, I haven't seen any of those applications yet).<br>
<br>
They do also seem to listen and participate on the OSM forums (e.g.<br>
<a href="http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=9840" target="_blank">http://forum.openstreetmap.org/viewtopic.php?id=9840</a> ) to try and improve<br>
the way they handle OSM data and keep up with tagging schemas.<br>
<br>
Nevertheless routing with OSM in general (and most routing software in<br>
particular) is currently still not always without its issues.<br>
<br>
Kai<br>
<br>
P.S. another option is to e.g. install a JVM ( e.g.<br>
<a href="http://davy.preuveneers.be/phoneme/?q=node/1" target="_blank">http://davy.preuveneers.be/phoneme/?q=node/1</a> ) on your PND device and run<br>
one of the javaME based navigation programs (<br>
<a href="http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Software/J2ME" target="_blank">http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Software/J2ME</a> ) like GpsMid (<br>
<a href="http://gpsmid.sourceforge.net/" target="_blank">http://gpsmid.sourceforge.net/</a> ), although the overall process is not the<br>
easiest or most user friendly option.<br>
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