Navius GPS — Community navigator for Ubuntu Touch

[woodyst]

Hi everyone!

I'm happy to announce Navius GPS, a full-featured GPS navigator I've been building
for Ubuntu Touch over the past months. It's now available on the OpenStore!

https://open-store.io/app/navius.woodyst

What it does:

• Turn-by-turn voice navigation with three TTS engines (Piper neural, Mimic HTS, PicoTTS)
• Community alerts: traffic, speed cameras, police, accidents — with voting to confirm or dismiss
• Music player — import tracks via Content Hub, plays during navigation, automatic volume ducking when TTS speaks. Supports mp3, ogg, flac, m4a, opus and more
• Fuel prices in real time (Spain: official MINETUR API; other countries via OSM)
• Vector maps with MapLibre GL — satellite view, 3D buildings, customisable styles
• High-precision GPS with dead-reckoning and interpolation up to 30 Hz
• Predicted traffic integrated in route calculation
• Multi-destination planning, favourites, 50-destination history
• POI search: petrol stations with price, parking, restaurants, hospitals and more
• GPS track recording with GPX export and route simulation
• Offline capable with OSM Scout Server detection

Routing is powered by Valhalla with planet-scale OSM data. Maps use MapLibre GL
with tiles from our own server.

The app is fully open source (GPL-3.0):
https://github.com/woodyst/navius

More info and screenshots:
https://www.egpsistemas.com/site/navius

I'd love to hear your feedback — bug reports and suggestions very welcome via GitHub issues
or right here in this thread!

[kan-ibal]

@woodyst
First impressions and remarks:

1. The app should starts with language set according system settings. Now it starts in Spanish.
2. Where I can set navigation mode ( car, bicicle, walk)?
3. Is there any way to import GPX/geo files?
4. How to add piper voices that are not on the list?

[projectmoon]

@woodyst Love the concept, and there's definitely a need for more thorough GPS. But yeah, it needs translating. Is there a place to contribute translations? Or maybe you can generate a set of machine translations for the most used languages on UT and then people can update those? Would help people actually be able to use the app. My Spanish is way too rusty for this lol.

As for what I can see so far:

• Does not fit UT's/Lomiri's UX, which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but a more native appearance would look better in my opinion.
• It's unclear what the account is for. I assume traffic reports, and I assume it's probably explained in the tour I didn't read because I don't know enough Spanish lol.
• Might be nice, if this is possible (not sure it is) to integrate with system links for directions and stuff, e.g. responding to geo: URIs if you don't already.