Thread: Navit on Kindle Touch
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Old 09-19-2013, 05:20 PM   #15
TheWizard
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Originally Posted by EternalCyclist View Post
Navit seems to have no multitouch capabilities and therefore pinch-zoom does not work. While riding/driving zoom buttons are easier to use. That and other options can be defined in the navit.xml.
My 5.3.3 firmware sources contain the X11 multitouch driver as described here:
https://github.com/BlueDragonX/xf86-...ster/README.md

So I gather if you can redefine Navit's ZoomIN as BTN12 and ZoomOUT as BTN13, you might be in business. The keycodes for Navit's config files are all hardcoded in keys.h, some hackery will be needed to expose these extra X11 touch gestures.

I've been riding bikes using Kindles with PDF maps & cuesheets. Navit with GPS would be the holy grail for long distance trips. Garmin's bike devices crash over very long routes and are generally fussy. I have a GPS chip (Fastrax UC430) that works over 1.8v TTL serial that I've been meaning to put inside my KPW, but I need to hack the bootloader to redirect the kernel console away from it.
Last edited by TheWizard; 09-19-2013 at 05:33 PM. Reason: found where the zoom keys need to patched in navit
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