Korva Maps

Desktop Navigation App & NavOS Core

Korva Maps is a native desktop navigation application powered by Korva NavOS, engineered specifically for dedicated in-car hardware setups running Windows or Linux. Built to move beyond standard web mapping, it bridges the gap between hardware serial inputs and modern mapping APIs to provide a high-accuracy, standalone navigation experience.

Key Features

• Mapbox-Powered Routing & HUD: Integrates the Mapbox API for seamless destination search, intelligent routing, and real-time traffic data. Features a dedicated driving HUD complete with route progress tracking, arrival handling, and integrated voice guidance.

• Hardware-Level GPS Integration: Bypasses unreliable Wi-Fi or browser-based location services by communicating directly with USB and serial GPS receivers. It reads raw NMEA position data over a serial connection, handling automatic port reconnection on startup and seamlessly falling back to system location data if hardware drops out mid-trip.

• Multi-Stop Waypoints: Supports adding dynamic "via points" along a route. The application tracks these stops with visual map markers, triggers spoken cues and confirmation alerts upon arrival, and handles smart rerouting to ensure you clear the stop before advancing.

• Automated CI/CD Deployment: Features a continuous delivery pipeline utilizing GitHub Actions. Every push to the main branch automatically executes comprehensive test suites (check:release), builds platform-specific binaries, including Windows NSIS installers and Linux AppImages, and deploys them directly to GitHub Releases.

• Polished Adaptive UI: Built with intelligent local caching for user configurations (Home, Work, favorites, and history) and features six distinct display environments optimized for any driving condition: Day, Dawn, Dusk, Night, Satellite, and Traffic.

Project Impact & Learnings

Developing Korva Maps required tackling unique desktop-environment challenges, including state synchronisation between Electron's main and renderer processes, parsing low-level serial data streams smoothly, and architecting an automated cross-platform build matrix that reliably packages applications for distinct operating systems.