[Routing] rana docs, install guide, user guide

[Nic Roets]

I may just copy this idea from Rana if you don't mind :
"Looking-up the current position and displaying the nearest road name"

On the mobile routing subject, I reimplemented "dynamic routing" (e.g.
missed turn) in gosmore yesterday. It's A* routing that starts at the
'to' point and tries to reach the 'from' point. After calculating the
initial route, keep the data and remember where the original 'from'
point is. When 'from' changes, you just keep on running the original
breath-first find until you bump into the new 'from'.

Mobile routing is the future, but I'm just not sure how to manage the
RAM with the whole map for a country like South-Africa being 30MB+
plus temporary routing data.

On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 7:20 PM, OJ W <ojwlists at googlemail.com> wrote:
> Hi. There is now some better documentation on how to run Rana:
>
> http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Rana
>
>
> A svn checkout should now include all the dependencies you need, which
> was apparently a problem when people tried it before.  There is also a
> shell script to get everything if you don't have SVN
>
> Recently added features include the ability to route to nearby towns and cities.
>
>
> If anyone installs rana and finds *any* step that's unclear or
> overlooked in the documents, can you add a note on the talk page or
> email me.  I'd like to get the install as smooth as possible before
> the openmoko hordes start trying to use it.
>
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