East Asian Maps/GPS

[Koreaboo]

The largest reason I bought my n810 was for the GPS.. I thought hey, traveling around and finding sights will be a breeze. Turns out maps of Korean and Japan don't seem to exist as far as WayFinder or Maemo Mapper is concerned. I spent yesterday evening installing dictionaries with great success. Jumped the hurdle of becomeroot and installed python 2.5. Hopefully there is a method for adding maps? The GPS seems to give me a location, but it doesn't know what to make of it since I have no maps that correspond to coordinates it is supplied with. I'm installing Chinese/Japanese/Korean fonts as we speak.

Thanks for any help or advice!

[ch8xy]

I don't have gps, just a plain n800 with maemomapper. I have no problem downloading detailed Google/Yahoo maps (level 3 or 4?) of a certain section of Osaka where I visit often. What I do is starting from a big area (e.g U.S.), move to a destination, and continue to zoom in.

[Koreaboo]

Thats odd. Maybe I was having connection issues? I couldn't seem to get it to download any details. I'll try it again. There wasn't anything you downloaded extra that you man have forgotten about at some point?

[Koreaboo]

Also, for maps, it seems to only list OpenStreet. Is there anything special i Need to do to get Yahoo and Google maps?

[Koreaboo]

Alright an update, I've searched the archives for a list of repositories, but every time I go to download maps for Google Street or Virtual Earth or something, Maemo Mapper freezes. Is there a way I can save the maps to my hard drive and then move them over?

[ch8xy]

To prevent potential freezing, I usually download one (or two) zoom level at a time (under "manage maps" >> "zoom"). I save all files to a 4gb sdhc card (under "manage repositories"). Can't really tell you anything about saving on a hard drive, but I am sure somebody out there can give you a good answer.