After some finaggling I managed to compile it (here’s the nix file I used to get the dependencies). It’s looking basic but actually promising! Here are some screenshots (sorry for potato quality, it’s the only one Lemmy allows me to upload at for some reason):
The search seems quite nice, it seems to search by names but also allows to search for (some?) OSM tags, e.g.
amenity:drinking_watershows up water fountains around you. I’m actually annoyed that other apps don’t allow you to do so this easily.
The navigation also seems to work-ish, which is surprising for such a young app. The only remaining things before it’s really useful is downloadable maps and offline routing.
Oh freaking nice! It looks amazing! Thanks for sharing the screenshots!
That’s cute(qt)
2027 year of the Linux… phone???
Linux *car
Linux is already the most common kernel in phones in 2026. In this case we really have to distinguish between Linux (incl. Android) and GNU/Linux.
And given that AOSP is already FOSS, it doesn’t exactly sound like a priority to reinvent the wheel of a FOSS smartphone OS.
Being able to make apps in plain Python or Rust, without running Android Studio sounds like a dream. Automatic simple things with cron. Using standard systemd, pipewire, wayland software stack… Being able to see data of apps and backup them with Restic or Syncthing. Repurposing old smartphone as Raspberry Pi replacement…
There are so many things we miss.
Of course those would be good things. It still doesn’t sound like priority #1 when it comes to software freedom alone especially in a world where smartphones are mostly not open systems designed for installation of any new operating systems.
AOSP is controlled and maintained by a single bad-faith entity. We need a community-maintained, community-led replacement ASAP.
Yes, alas the tech community is too infested of liberals who don’t see how the current make up of corpo backed up “foss” is bad for the overall community, like the commenter above. We’re in an all time high disinterestedness about FOSS policies and politics.
The guys who created the ecosystem were experienced adults, the kids who are inheriting it don’t know nothing and don’t want to learn it either.
The old men are culprit of this too, Linux was never aboult only “gaming like Windows” and they failed at teaching this. And here we are.
back in my day <shakes fist at cloud>
pun definitely intendedNope, this os more about the state of things in general. I’m not only blaming the kids, certainly there also insidious work at play here in how nobody is stepping up to keep the boat on the original intended course.
And the old gurus are to blame as well, many either kneel to the Man with fat pockets or stopped to care.
As for what is the right course, do you see the “socialist” up there? That’s also a discussion we have in our circles. “Is mass adoption always good?” Or “Is it better to have 5% of highly engaged people in a community whom the (apolitical) ‘sheep’ will follow and learn to and to build up from there?” You may guess my favorite approach.
I fail to see the point. The company sells laptops with Ubuntu preinstalled not phones which are the targets of such apps. Linux phones are still in their infancy and for Android we do have excellent apps like Mapy pulling their data from OSM. What am I missing?
I think about this a lot and if you can even consider Linux phones in their infancy. There are no modern Linux phones that fully work as a phone. Its the joke about this being the year of Linux over and over. Ubuntu touch was started in 2011 and since then it hasn’t changed or advanced in any meaningful way. Every other Linux phone distro is basically the same story. I would love to even be able to get a Jolla phone in the US, but that’s not an option. I occasionally see people say they are using Linux phones as a daily driver, and then find out they are using some obscure or ancient hard to get phone. Or better yet, it’s just a secondary phone. They are a curiosity at best which makes me sad.
I think that as a community we should try to keep android as open as possible first of all… I daily drive GrapheneOS for instance and I don’t feel the need for a Linux phone. I get that both can coexist but I’m afraid we won’t be able to carve a big enough niche to male Linux phones work.
They may be working on a Linux-based car head unit, which is kinda between a phone and a laptop (like a tablet, which it basically is). If that’s the case, something like this would be a required app, and current (non-android) Linux offerings are somewhat limited (basically it’s just PureMaps and a couple forks, which all work but are a bit janky). If they end up with something useful, it would be great for both phones and cars.
This makes a lot of sense actually. It’d be awesome to have more options for head units. I’m not sure about the target though, amateurs working on their car or restoring old models? I don’t see a lot of companies choosing a Linux based head unit for their cars. But the same argument could be said for Linux phones too.
As the owner of multiple cars from the '90s and 2000s, I 100% need a Linux head unit.
So I am their target as well. I like to utilize it in a DIY motorcycle navigation based in a raspberry with a display. Their are no great options for motorcycles at this point. And I love to diy it.
I think organizations working around sensitive installations could be interested.
For example the car used to drive around nuclear powerplants, military installations or just industrial equipment. Modern cars have GPS and cameras and you don’t want to have random cameras recording around sensitive installations.
They could remove the cameras but then the car would not be road legal anymore.
A Linux based head unit would allow them to customize it to the level of security they require while still retaining the benefit of modern cars.
It’s a niche but a niche that have the means to infest a lot in development
I’m not sure about the target though, amateurs working on their car or restoring old models?
Yeah, personally I’d be their target audience, if they announce it soon enough and it doesn’t cost an arm and a leg. I can also see some european manufacturers looking to decouple from the US tech being somewhat interested.
A friend of mine is restoring an old muscle car and I bet he’d love something like this as well. It’s a niche but we Linux enthusiasts can be quite passionate so I do think the audience is out there for sure.
The repository is called “car navigation” so yeah.
Qt Company itself also invests heavily in Qt for Automotive platforms.
Description: Car navigation application for Linux A turn-by-turn car navigation app built with Qt 6, MapLibre, and OpenStreetMap data. Features include voice guidance, Overture Maps POI search, and offline route calculation via OSRM or Valhalla.
I am confused. Looking at the code, both OSRM and Valhalla are actually online routing services and require an internet connection. There is no offline route calculation in this code as far as I can tell.
Yeah, it doesn’t have downloadable maps or offline routing (at least yet). It does however cache the map tiles it downloaded, and it seems to also cache some POIs (e.g. I can see opening hours for shops around me even without the internet).
Direct link to the gitlab repository:
https://gitlab.com/junocomp/car-navigationAre they planning to license it as free software?
