Notices

I made a little comparison: I drove a little trip by car and recorded it with Maemo Mapper on N800 with LD-3W GPS unit and with ecoach on N900 with the internal GPS. The GPS update interval was 5 seconds in ecoach while Maemo Mapper updates every second. The distance calculated from the gpx recorded with N800 was 27.1 km and from the N900 recorded 26.9 km. I forgot to take a note what was the distance measured by my car. I have previously compared the N800 recorded distance to the distance recorded by my car and it was within 1%.

Interesting thread, as I just posted a blog entry about GPS interval in Mapper:
http://blog.mardy.it/2010/04/mapper-...tery-life.html

Although I was mainly thinking about having a longer interval to reduce battery consumption, it can indeed have some beneficial effects on the GPX file. I guess that for walking a 30 seconds interval might be the best, but for running or cycling I would opt on 10 seconds, while I'd keep 1 second for car navigation.

I've used Maemo Mapper on N800 and 770 with its 1 second update and succeeded in keeping it alive for 10-12 hour trips but on these trips I very rarely woke the screen up. Just kept it logging.

I have used Maemo Mapper also for logging data for car performance tests (I calculate the performance figures off-line on PC). For that the 1 second interval is a must. I hope you keep the 1 second option on Mapper.

Hi all , does some one here know how to get something like this , I think is a simple improvement but I think will by very useful
Turn this

Into something like this (simple media player controls)


I am not too into "LINUX Developing" so this is just a suggestion of if there's any tutorial I can use to get into it en do it by my self , would be great.

what would happen on those new buttons?

The idea is to have some media player controls (play, next, previous pause) in the same interface.