street map software

[bill biggs]

Thank you road nav worked 

On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 14:21 -0500, Elijah Lofgren wrote:
> On 4/25/06, bill biggs <kc8pdr at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dose anyone know of any map software ?
> 
> I don't know of any that are currently in the Ubuntu package database,
> but it looks like one called "Roadster" is in development:
> http://linuxadvocate.org/projects/roadster/
> 
> I found another program called Roadnav:
> http://roadnav.sourceforge.net/
> 
> You can download and install the Debian package for it:
> http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/roadnav/roadnav_0.12-1_i386.deb?download
> 
> Just click the "OK" button when Firefox asks if you want to open
> roadnav_0.12-1_i386.deb with gdebi-gtk. You can then install the
> package and run it by typing: "roadnav" into a terminal.
> 
> When you start Roadnav it will start downloading the map data. This
> will take some time depening on your Internet connection speed.
> 
> Also, when you get directions Roadnav downloads more data from the
> Internet. So you may find that it's faster just to use one of these
> online mapping sites:
> http://local.google.com/
> http://www.mapquest.com/
> http://maps.yahoo.com/
> 
> --
> Elijah Lofgren
> http://www.elijahlofgren.com/
>