Huge news! Maemo Mapper gets promoted to Extras, which means it's considered stable enough for general public use. Maemo Mapper is basically an open source navigation and mapping tool with support for things like real time over the air map downloading, navigation and POI's.

In addition to the basic navigation features offered by commercial competition like Ovi Maps and Google Maps (the latter which there is no Maemo version yet and we are also still waiting for the new Ovi Maps for Maemo also), Mapper also has route tracking and a whole lot of customization that isn't possible on the commercial clients.

Have not tested it in the car yet but so far it's looking quite stable and responsive. For an open source project to compete on the navigator front it's certainly huge!

If you're rockin' the N900, give it a try by installing it from the application manager or directly from this link.

[ maemo // n900 // software // navigators ]