Default country selected in town search should be dynamic

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• Navit version: navit-svn-4879
• Device: Samsung Galaxy Tab P1000
• OS: Android 2.2
• latest map from planet extractor

Go to Menu -> Actions -> Town

Default country selected is static: US. This should be improved. Default country selected here should be the country where the the vehicle is currently positioned. Or when the position is not available, we should use the country from the last known vehicle position.

Ciprian Alexan.

[http://wiki.navit-project.org/index.php/user:korrosa]

For extra info: note that the default country is set using the locale of your device - it does not simply default to the US. To force a different country without changing the locale of your device, use the language attribute in the config tag within navit.xml, as described at  http://wiki.navit-project.org/index.php/Configuring_Navit/Full_list_of_options.

I agree though that it would be a cool feature to set the default country using the vehicle position. As long as it doesn't change the language of the Navit menus though!

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There was a long discussion about this in #439. There, some people pointed out that you do not necessarily want the country where you currently are, as you might be using Navit to plan a trip somewhere else.

An alternate solution would be for the search dialog to remember the last country setting - usually you keep using the same country (either the one where you are, or the one where you are planning a trip).

Maybe I'll work on this at some point...