Introduction

Roadnav is an open source street navigation solution capable of running on a variety of operating systems. It can obtain your position from a GPS unit, plot a map of your area, and provide directions to locations in the USA. It can also verbalize directions using Microsoft SAPI 5.1, Festival, flite, and OS X's built in text to speech engine.

Roadnav uses the free TIGER/Line (Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing) files from the US Census Bureau to build the maps, along with the GNIS state and topical gazetteer data from the USGS to identify locations. It has experimental support for scripting, LCDproc, importing OpenStreetMap data, and importing GPX waypoints and tracks.

News

10/19/07 - Roadnav v0.19 and LibRoadnav v0.19 released

Roadnav/LibRoadnav v0.19 has been released. This is another bug fix release with some minor i18n and ./configure tweaks. Ubuntu 7.10 (Gutsy Gibbon) .deb packages are also available now. This will probably be the last release in a while as I need to focus on some other projects going forward.

6/30/07 - Roadnav v0.18 and LibRoadnav v0.18 released

Roadnav/LibRoadnav v0.18 has been released. This is mostly a bug fix release with notable changes including adding experimental GPX support, reducing disk usage, providing better proxy support, various GPS compatibility fixes, and a Windows 2000 compatibility fix. Note: You will have to recompile your maps after upgrading. See the change log for a complete list of changes.

2/24/07 - Roadnav v0.17 and LibRoadnav v0.17 released

Roadnav/LibRoadnav v0.17 has been released. This is a major release with notable changes including adding support for flite and OS X's built in text to speech engine, improved routing algorithm, reduced disk space requirements, and many bug fixes. See the change log for a complete list of changes.