Le 02/09/2025 à 17:53, ael via Dng a écrit :
> On Tue, Sep 02, 2025 at 05:33:38PM +0200, Didier Kryn wrote:
>> Le 02/09/2025 à 13:09, ael via Dng a écrit :
>>> Except that it is a navigation program, and that seemed to be incidental
>>> to what I gathered you wanted. So getting to grips with it will take
>>> more effort, most of which will be irrelevant if that is not your main
>>> purpose.
>>     I haven't a GPS but might add one some day, and anyway there are other
>> features in Navit, like finding a route, which do not require a GPS.
> Yes. And obviously I can help as a long term user of navit.
>
> But you can invoke at least 3 route planners (GraphHopper,OSRM or
> Valhalla) from the main page athttps://www.openstreetmap.org/.
> Just click on the double arrow icon next to the search box. It will take
> you tohttps://www.openstreetmap.org/directions.
>
> It is interesting to explore the different engines and play with their
> settings.
>
> In navit, you can tune "navit.xml" which gives you extremely fine
> control over almost all aspects, but there is a fair learning curve.
    I've already seen that (~:
>
> One of the first things you might want to set there is
> <navit center=..... > so it starts at your place of interest with your
> preferred zoom level and so no.
    I would tell that the first thing (which I haven't sorted out
completely yet) is to install at least one map, meaning download it and
tell Navit the path to it. Before that, the application is disapointing,
as one can expect.
>>     BTW, thanks for being a benevolent contributor to the map.
> Join in the fun! I think that I have more than 3000 edits over the
> years, some quite big. But I have enormously benefited from OSM and my
> contributions have been tiny in that context.

    Yet another thing to learn (~:

--     Didier