Has anyone tried marble yet? FREE Navigation soft...

i just loaded it and tried it briefly...looks good for anyone that is looking for a replacement nav software! note: i am in no way affiliated with this software however it looks to be a good fit for the betterment of nokia n900 users.
Linux Journal has a review of the maps and navigation program Marble on the N900. Excerpt:
Put the World in Your Pocket with Marble
KDE's Marble breaks free of the desktop—and it knows where it's going.
Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have the whole world at your fingertips? How about cradling it in a single hand, putting it in your pocket and taking it with you wherever you go? With KDE's Marble Virtual Globe on your mobile phone, you can do just that.
Yes, you now can run Marble on a smartphone that supports Nokia's Qt framework. That could be useful, the next time you are arguing with a friend about which is farther north: London, England, or London, Canada. However, you could answer that kind of question using a mobile Web browser, or you even could use your phone to call someone and ask. At first glance, having a virtual globe on your phone seems like little more than a fun gimmick—something to play with and impress your friends. But if you look a little deeper, you will find that Marble can do much more than plug the gaps in your geography knowledge. It can help you find yourself and guide you home.
Figure 1. Marble's mobile version puts the world at your fingertips.
Navigate Freely
Marble has long been KDE's virtual globe application, providing satellite, atlas and OpenStreetMap mapping of the world. Since its 0.10 release last August, Marble has included route-finding capabilities, so you can enter two locations and have Marble calculate a route and provide step-by-step directions. However, with version 1.0, released in 2010, Marble's navigational capabilities and optimizations for mobile devices have really come of age. Combined with a suitable smartphone, this gives you a completely free navigation system—free software and free map data.
Figure 2. You easily can use a smart phone running Marble as an in-car satellite navigation device.
So, how can you use Marble to turn your phone into a personal navigational device? In principle, you can run the software on any device that supports Nokia's Qt toolkit. In practice, most testing is done on Nokia N900s running Maemo, and packages are available for this platform. Marble also will run fine on MeeGo when the first MeeGo-powered phones appear. In the view of lead developer Torsten Rahn, “It would be really cool to see Marble prepackaged for more platforms, such as Symbian, Android, WinCE and others.”
Get Marble on Your Nokia N900
Most testing of the mobile version of Marble is done using Maemo on Nokia's N900 smartphone. Packages are available to make installation easy.
To get the mobile version of Marble, simply point your phone's Web browser to the Marble Web site (edu.kde.org/marble), navigate to the Download section and scroll down to find the Maemo packages.

Thanks for the tip. I was hesitating about which navigation software to install, and I just installed Marble. Looks good so far but I still have to test it on a real (short) trip.. maybe today on the way home

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