Re: Maemo Mapper v2.0
 

POI Bug found: When I rotate the map clockwise, the POI will disappear after three clicks (press arrow key to rotate three times). So I lose visibility of POIs. Will test driving to work today with auto-rotate to see if problem still occurs.

UPDATE: The auto-rotate reproduce the same bug once the map rotated enough times (3 clicks from north to northeast) before the POI would disappear from the map. To add, I noticed when manually rotating the map if I start with it pointing North in its default setting and rotate counter-clockwise, it disappears immediately while rotating it from North position and clockwise it would not disappear until about 3 clicks towards Northeast.

Re: Maemo Mapper v2.0
 

I see exactly the same from GPS locations taken from a Garmin handheld and entered manually - both in Google Earth and in Maemo-mapper. That's why I am convinced it is a mislocation in Google's data.

But I will also try a downloaded route, later today.

That track was recorded in northern Trinidad, 10.6N 61.3W.

I frequently use geographic data and handheld GPSs in my job. I know from experience that Google Earth and Maps can have errors like this.

===============================================

This thread is almost as useful as maemo-mapper itself.

Maybe we can turn it into an FAQ.

Re: Maemo Mapper v2.0
 

I've never created a route before. Any suggestions how to go about it.

I want to make a route for the same bit of map I showed before. Google Maps said it couldn't calculate a route for me. I also tried a web-site called digipoint (http://www.zonums.com/gmaps/digipoint.html), but that only gave me waypoints. I created waypoints at various road intersections - you can see how well these plot in Google Earth below.

Digipoint uses Google Maps, so it's not really surprising that they agree.

Re: Maemo Mapper v2.0
 

Which version are you using? If it's 2.0.1 or 2.0.2, then this bug was fixed in 2.0.3. If it's 2.0.3, then I must have missed something....

Re: Maemo Mapper v2.0
 

I think I know why this happens. I'll fix it in 2.0.4. Thanks for the bug report.

Points of interests don't appear!
 

This may be a very newbie question. I can download the poi, and I can view them in a list. However, how comes they don't appear on the map?

Re: Maemo Mapper v2.0
 

There's an option in View->Show to enable/disable POI view.

Re: Maemo Mapper v2.0
 

I understand that this is not a maemomapper fault, but if it's used with kagu, would it be possible to pause reproduction or lower music volume when voice announcements are made?

Re: Maemo Mapper v2.0
 

I solved the problem by restarting the system.

Re: Maemo Mapper v2.0
 

Just another note of thanks for maemo-mapper. I used 1.x on a 3000+ mile car trip over about 3 weeks this summer, and it was flawless. 2.0 is looking even better, although personally I'm not sure I like rotation - that's rotation in general, not your implementation. I learned to read a map long ago, the right way!

Kudos for a truly outstanding piece of software and the support for it.

Re: Maemo Mapper v2.0
 

I love rotation, works great on my 770! Nice to know that I need to either make a right or left with out manually rotating my 770. I don't recall if its on by default, but remember you can turn it off if you don't like it.

On a different note, I think we need a bug/feature thread to separate bug/features from users asking general questions.

I know from a feature request it would be nice to be able to adjust the brightness of the screen from within maemo mapper. Driving last night as day transitioned into night I had to lower my brightness which is a pain to do with the stylus while driving. I like clicking the menu button and then using the D-Pad.

Re: Points of interests don't appear!
 

In addition to making sure that "POI" is checked in the "View | Show" menu, you may also want to increase your "POI Zoom" level, in the "POI" tab of the Settings dialog.

Re: Maemo Mapper v2.0
 

Unfortunately, Maemo Mapper can't control the volume of flite. :(

Re: Maemo Mapper v2.0
 

I would like to know if there is a link we can use that shows you how to use all the features of this software? I have used it some but feel there is more to it than what I know. I am still learning how to use the POI's and other features.

Please advise.

Thank you.
Raul

Re: Maemo Mapper v2.0
 

flite volume is fine. I thought more of a joint effort between maemo mapper and kagu (or other media players): kagu could offer a method to pause/resume via dbus and maemo mapper could use it.
(In fact I think kagu already does: browsing the source I saw that it reacts to some dbus signals and a reference to this thread, so this should be generic for any media player)

Re: Maemo Mapper v2.0
 

well, that doesn't seem to be fully implementer, however kagu has a fifo in /home/user/.kagu/fifo and if you send it the string "pause" it will toggle pause on and off (the problem being that if it is already paused it will resume playing instead of pausing :().
It also accepts a status command, but it doesn't tell if it is paused or not, just the name of the file currently playing.

Re: Maemo Mapper v2.0
 

Ok, heres an interesting problem, completely caused by me not paying attention. I accidentally deleted the POI database and now I cannot recreate it. I have tried uninstalling/reinstalling but I get the same error upon startup that it cannot find the database.

Any suggestions? Please?

Re: Maemo Mapper v2.0
 

I had a similar problem and it seemed the only way to fix it was to shut down and reboot. I actually had to do that twice, strange, maybe a processes was running that wouldn't close correctly on its own.

Re: Maemo Mapper v2.0
 

not sure if anyone is having this problem, but recently mapper starts fine, then takes longer than usual to get GPS fix. It then gets the fix and freezes about 1sec. later. I've tried everything, I'm considering reinstalling. Any ideas?

Re: Maemo Mapper v2.0
 

That didnt do it, but thank you for the reply.

Re: Maemo Mapper v2.0
 

To be honest with you guys, I don't understand Maemo Mapper. I've read all available guides and I just don't get it.

All I want is an offline Map software that can show me my town streets with names, so I can enter start and end address and get there with or without a GPS.

Now I'm realizing that all I want is an offline version of Google Maps and I'll be truly happy. But I guess Maemo Mapper can't help me with my needs... :-(

Re: Maemo Mapper v2.0
 

Sure it can. Cache the map data of the area you need, set the GPS location (if you don't have one) with a long-press on your current location, the use the route menu to download a route to your destination.

Re: Maemo Mapper v2.0
 

I was just wondering if anyone else was (still) having problems with MM 2.0x and the RTComm beta? Since installing RTComm (and getting my N800 working with my home Asterisk Server, woohoo!), it seems that MM "freezes" within seconds of getting a fix from the GPS. These freezes may be associated with the N800 tethering to my cell phone to download maps. I'm not sure yet.

Re: Maemo Mapper v2.0
 

I don't think this is a problem with RTCOmm - I'm getting this same problem on 2007He with no RTCOmm. I haven't installed anything new since mapper 2.X and it used to work.

Re: Maemo Mapper v2.0
 

Ok, I think I have an idea here. Could somebody please email me the poi.db file? I think if I recreate the directory structure and put the file in all should be well.

Re: Maemo Mapper v2.0
 

As long as the directory structure is there ( same as in settings ) then mapper should recreate an empty db for you.

Re: Maemo Mapper v2.0
 

Gnuite, got another bug report for ya.

POI Bug #2:
I have multiple POIs on the maps. I click on one of the POIs to View/Edit and change the category. I click on a 2nd POI to do the same thing and click Save. Each time I repeat the steps above, MM crashes on the 2nd attempt to change a POI's category.

Edit: I had custom category images installed hence why I was updating my POIs. That might have or been part of the problem.

Re: Maemo Mapper v2.0
 

Now that my obvious bout of cranial flatulence has passed, thank you for the suggestion. It worked.

Re: Maemo Mapper v2.0
 

Does the Help button work (in Maemo Mapper's main menu)? (This is an honest question, as at least one person has reported that the help button does not work in non-English locales.)

Re: Maemo Mapper v2.0
 

Maemo Mapper will generate the POI database whenever it starts and finds that the POI file does not exist. Try changing the location of the POI database?

Re: Maemo Mapper v2.0
 

Which GPS receiver do you use? Which version of Maemo Mapper are you using? Did the problem appear after upgrading to a new version (if so, from and to which versions).

Re: Maemo Mapper v2.0
 

You are correct. Maemo Mapper can draw previously cached maps, but it cannot fetch new maps, generate routes, or search for nearby POI without an internet connection.

Re: Maemo Mapper v2.0
 

1. Thanks for the bug report; I'll look into it.
2. You can change the categories of POIs en masse using the POI List, accessible via the "Browse POI..." menu item. This may be easier than selecting each POI separately and using View/Edit....

Re: Maemo Mapper v2.0
 

Gnuite,
I am experiencing issues with the GPS/MM. It seems after initially using MM w/ my GPS, the next time I use it, MM will start tracking for about 5 seconds and then stall. I can restart the GPS tracking and it will repeat the same problem. To resolve the issue, I have to reboot the device and its good to go again.

P.S. I just want to say that I know I am reporting bugs lately but don't take it the wrong way! I love your program and use it ALOT!! I am even setting it up these days as part of testing and figuring out its new features for my next two big road trips for the holidays. You do great work Gnuite!

Re: Maemo Mapper v2.0
 

First off Gnuite, I have to say that I really appreciate this new release. Most of the issues I'd had with 1.4.x are gone, save the occasional time where it won't start, but even that is not that big a problem. The only issue that I've seen recently was when I tried to get into the settings dialog while the GPS (a globalsat BT359) was active and it crashed the program. Not a big issue and one that can easily be worked around.

I am also a member of the Open Street Map project and that leads to the main reason I finally got around to registering here. One of our other members had observed that we are seeing a fairly large number of requests for non existent zoom levels on our servers and after some investigation I discovered that one of the many sources appears to maemo-mapper, due mainly to the recent increase in the maximum zoom level.

Open Street Map only renders tiles to an equivalent of zoom=4 (which is also used for zoom=3), which on OSM's tile server is a zoom level 17 tile. However maemo-mapper's zoom=2 requests tiles from the /19/ zoom level which doesn't exist, and zoom=0 requests from the /21/ zoom level. Is there any way that a maximum level option could be set per repository, to prevent someone from requesting a range of zooms for an large area and hammering the OSM tile server with literally tens of thousands of invalid requests? This may not be too big an issue with larger map providers such as google (although they do limit on a per-client basis after a certain point as I understand it), we have only a finite amount of server resources and are trying to get the word out to the authors of the various tools that may be the source of some bad requests.

Thanks for your great work, and I look forward to hearing back on this.

Re: Maemo Mapper v2.0
 

gnuite,

Sorry for taking so long to answer. Wasn't sure if I had noticed it with 2.0.3. I think there may be a problem. Similar to before, when traveling on a straight highway, on course, every few seconds I get the message that it's downloading another route. This is with 2.0.3

Re: Maemo Mapper v2.0
 

I had to recreate the directory structure (Per rcull's sugestion) in order for MM to recreate the database. Once I did that there was no longer a problem.

Re: Maemo Mapper v2.0
 

Gnuite, this might explain why MM gives failure messages when trying to download/process low zoom levels (I've reported this earlier here). It happens with Google Maps though in my case.

Re: Maemo Mapper v2.0
 

So, now you have a free N810 heading your way, Gnuite, will we see an IT2008 port soon? :) I'm certainly looking forward to one!

Re: Maemo Mapper v2.0
 

I managed to install MM 2.0. When I try to load it, it says "the current repository is in a legacy format ..." and it does not load.
I tried to delete every map I had, but it seems that something is left.
How can I clean the repository? Where should I look?
Thanks