From 13ac896b2f33f6d3bb33c37171488834dd9cfb0d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arndt Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2015 08:14:42 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] brouter 1.3 --- misc/readmes/kitkat_survival_readme.txt | 15 ++++++++------- misc/readmes/readme.txt | 22 ++++++++-------------- 2 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) diff --git a/misc/readmes/kitkat_survival_readme.txt b/misc/readmes/kitkat_survival_readme.txt index 3d52898..d1561ba 100644 --- a/misc/readmes/kitkat_survival_readme.txt +++ b/misc/readmes/kitkat_survival_readme.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -Surviving with Android 4.4 (KitKat) or 5.0 (Lollipop) using latest BRouter +Surviving with Android 4.4 (KitKat) or 5.x (Lollipop) using latest BRouter ======================================================= BRouter has some basic support to reclaim your external SD card. @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Brouter must be installed on internal drive ("SD card"), but maps could be moved What's new is a configuration file located at: - brouter/segments3/storageconfig.txt + brouter/segments4/storageconfig.txt which has 2 configuration items: @@ -17,19 +17,20 @@ which has 2 configuration items: "additional_maptool_dir" points to a base-directory that should be scanned for maptool-installations in addition to the standard-guesses. -Initially, the value for "secondary_segment_dir" is "../segments2" to support the -file-format transition from 0.9.9 to 1.0.1, so that, after upgrading, your existing +Initially, the value for "secondary_segment_dir" is "../segments3" to support the +file-format transition from 1.2 to 1.3, so that, after upgrading, your existing datafiles are found via the secondary directory. However, for surviving KitKatn and later, you are supposed to change that to the absolute path to a directory on the external card, e.g.: -secondary_segment_dir=/storage/external_SD/brouter_segments3 +secondary_segment_dir=/storage/external_SD/brouter_segments4 -When searching for datafiles, both the download manager and the router first look in the primary (brouter/segments3) and then in the secondary directory (or it's "carsubset" subfolder). On the other hand, the download manager always writes new datafiles to the primary directory, so the secondary directory is read-only. +When searching for datafiles, both the download manager and the router first look in the primary (brouter/segments4) and then in the secondary directory. +On the other hand, the download manager always writes new datafiles to the primary directory, so the secondary directory is read-only. So you can move datafiles downloaded by the download-manager to the secondary directory, by using a file manager, in order to free disk space on the internal card. Or you ca download datafiles directly to the secondary directory by doing manual http downloads -from http://brouter.de/brouter/segments3 +from http://brouter.de/brouter/segments4 Depending on how your maptool handles the file-system structure, you are done. diff --git a/misc/readmes/readme.txt b/misc/readmes/readme.txt index eb5b4e0..591d0c1 100644 --- a/misc/readmes/readme.txt +++ b/misc/readmes/readme.txt @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -BRouter - Version 1.2 - Setting up the Android App +BRouter - Version 1.3 - Setting up the Android App ================================================== Choosing and Installing a Map-Tool @@ -40,13 +40,9 @@ Installing the BRouter App -------------------------- You can install the BRouter-App either from Google's Play Store -or directly from the APK-File contained within the "brouter_1_1.zip" +or directly from the APK-File contained within the "brouter_1_3.zip" distribution zip-file. -Both APKs are identical. There used to be a pure-offline version -in the distribution-zip, but with version 1.1 this APK also does -include the download manager, so it asks for internet access. - Choosing a SD-Card Base Directory --------------------------------- @@ -64,14 +60,14 @@ Navigation needs big data files that usually should go on an external, big sd-card. You should accept the external card, which is usually the one with the most space available. -However, on Android 4.4, write access to the external card +However, on Android >= 4.4, write access to the external card is restricted, and usually you will not get a proposal to use the external card. Here you should accept to go with the internal card - later on you can setup a "secondary" data directory on the external card where you can move the datafiles to. -*** see the kitkat_survival_readme.txt for special Android 4.4 issues *** +*** see the kitkat_survival_readme.txt for special Android 4.4 and Android 5x issues *** Try to make sure your map-tool uses the same base directory to store the offline maps and other stuff, because BRouter @@ -109,8 +105,7 @@ relative to this base directory, so you end up with e.g. the following structure (depending on base dir and your map-tool choice): /mnt/sdcard/brouter -/mnt/sdcard/brouter/segments3 <- ** put routing data files (*.rd5) here ** -/mnt/sdcard/brouter/segments3/carsubset <- ** put *.cd5 files here ** +/mnt/sdcard/brouter/segments4 <- ** put routing data files (*.rd5) here ** /mnt/sdcard/brouter/profiles2 <- lookup-table and routing profiles /mnt/sdcard/brouter/modes <- routing-mode/profile mapping @@ -131,10 +126,9 @@ order to complete your installation. After accepting the base directory, the download manager starts automatically to help you with this download. Or you can download -them manually from the following locations: +them manually from the following location: - http://brouter.de/brouter/segments3 - http://brouter.de/brouter/segments3/carsubset + http://brouter.de/brouter/segments4 Routing data files are organised as 5*5 degree files, with the Filename containing the south-west corner @@ -150,7 +144,7 @@ normal (full) rd5's. The minimum files BRouter needs to work are e.g. -/mnt/sdcard/brouter/segments3/E5_N45.rd5 +/mnt/sdcard/brouter/segments4/E5_N45.rd5 /mnt/sdcard/brouter/profiles2/lookups.dat /mnt/sdcard/brouter/profiles2/trekking.brf