Autozoom disables Northing and 2D mode

[AchimStuy]

First, thank you for creating such a great open source navi app!

I am using Navit on a Win CE car radio (from Zenec, if that matters). And I would like to have a traditional map view, meaning 2D and oriented north. orientation="0" and pitch="0" are working fine, as long as I don't enable autozoom_active. But as soon as I enable autozoom (either manually in the navit.xml or via OSD / menu config) I get the kind of first person view with some pitch and map oriented in driving direction. A similar issue is described in #1235.

Is that a bug or a feature? Can I somehow enable autozoom and keep 2D view and northing?

[freecycler]

I suspect it is as gefin said here:
#1235 (comment)

There are some automatic settings in navit.xml which overwrite your changes. You can use your own navit.xml to change this automatics.

you likely need to edit navit.xml. Search it for the line (only 1 instance roughly halfway through the file) containing "pitch=autozoom" to to see what makes these settings conditional on autozoom. I never did find out what the reason for that was, I am guessing some early user/dev wanted that setting and it ended up getting copied into production releases a long time ago and the reason forgotten (ie, a bug). I certainly consider this linkage to be an anti-feature.

Since I always turn northing off, I have not tried to adjust this line myself. By any chance are you setting follow to 0 ?

[AchimStuy]

That makes sense. I deleted the line from the navit.xml and it's working now. Thanks!