There is not yet a feature to show how many miles are left in the route.

I'm not sure exactly what you're asking in your second question. To load a new route, use the "Route -> Clear" menu item, then "Route -> Open..." or "Router -> Download..." to load a new route.

On most mapping programs I use i.e. microsoft streets and trips, you can change the route by selecting either shortest, no tolls, quickest and so forth. After playing w/ the maemo mapper for a awhile I figured out it doen't offer those options yet. Even with out them (options) it still will be an invaluable tool for as go through cities around the country!! Thankx to the developers for putting the time in to make small minor miracles like these happen. :D

Unfortunately, Maemo Mapper doesn't actually generate any directions. It just defers to Google Maps for the directions, and currently Google Maps doesn't offer any route options. Maybe someday it will...

Anyone have any idea as to how to get maemomapper to fetch the same maps as google maps does? I would like to download and view some non uk/us maps which don't appear to be available on maemomapper .

PS Just got my 770 - it's excellent.

here's a quick ? bout mm. when auto dn ld is on & IT SAVES ALL THE ZOOM LEVELS to the 770 while connected to the internet, can mm retreive those same zoom images while not connected to the internet ? also if i save the route does that save the map images too? when traveling i don't always have access to the net. thanks.


-Derrick

i believe you have to connected to the internet to dn load any maps. you'll need to turn on auto-down load along w/ having a map url entered in the map section of the of the settings menu. if you just to just dn load some maps try googleing some & then save them as a jpeg image.

It can't "retrieve" maps without access to the internet, no. And it doesn't save map data automatically when you save a route - try "Maps -> Download Along Route" in the menu (need internet access).

What I mean is that if I view a country in google maps such as Australia I can see roads, but in maemomapper there are only roads for the UK and US. I believe this is what google maps used to be like, so it is as if the url I am using for the API is out of date - or google is keeping it that way. Look at Australia in maemomapper and then google maps to see if you get the same behaviour .

[QUOTE=MaxP]What I mean is that if I view a country in google maps such as Australia I can see roads, but in maemomapper there are only roads for the UK and US. I believe this is what google maps used to be like, so it is as if the url I am using for the API is out of date - or google is keeping it that way. Look at Australia in maemomapper and then google maps to see if you get the same behaviour .[/QUOTE]
i understand what ur asking now. let me look & see

The current URL used by Google Maps is http://mt0.google.com/mt?n=404&v=w2.21, so try using "http://mt0.google.com/mt?n=404&v=w2.21&x=%d&y=%d&zoom=%d" as your "URL Format" in Maemo Mapper.