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Navigatrix (noun)

A cross between a navigator and a back-seat driver

Background

I got the idea for Navigatrix on a recent car trip I took from Massachusetts to Florida. While my wife did most of the driving, I sat in the navigators chair, with my GPS in the window, connected to my laptop. I originally intended to use the laptop to just download the track data at regular intervals because the GPS has a limited memory, but I ended up using Garmin's Mapsource program to display my real-time position. While this was very cool there are several things that I would change to make navigating on car trips much easier. I have attempted to ask Garmin for feature enhancements in the past and they have been very unreceptive. And so, as I always say, if you want anything done right you have to do it yourself. Besides, I think it would run much better on Unix.

Current Progress

I am on the third rewrite of Navigatrix. The first one was based on the Gnome libraries. I did not like it at all. So I fell back on Qt because of the Object Oriented design and signal slot mechanism. Shortly afterwards I started getting back into KDE because of the 3.0 release. I then made the decision to use the KDE libraries because it is based on Qt. You can see a screenshot of the current version above.

Mailing lists

• navigatrix-announce@maraudingpirates.org - General announcements concerning Navigatrix. This is a moderated list and is not open for discussions.
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Source Distribution

navigatrix-0.6.tar.bz2 (398566 bytes)
navigatrix-0.6.tar.gz (563993 bytes)