You guys might wanna check this one out too...it's free. http://terraserver.microsoft.com/

Good idea. Maemo Mapper currently detects when the cover is put on, turning off the scanning when that occurs. It should also turn off scanning when Offline mode is enabled. I never use Offline mode, so I had never thought about it.


The "Enter" button (center of the D-Pad) does this. When you are already auto-centered, it toggles between the two auto-center modes. When you are not auto-centered (because you panned), it enables your most recent auto-center mode.


See Feature Request Tracker Item #25.

Good idea. I'll make this possible in the "Download Along Route" functionality when POI's come.

GPS-tracking with closed device cover
 

http://armin-warda.de/maemo-mapper-1...-0.4_armel.deb contains an option to disable the default behaviour 'Maemo-Mapper disconnects from GPS when the device cover is closed'. Thus it allows you to operate Maemo-Mapper with a closed device cover, which protects the touchscreen. (Like maemo-mapper-1.0.1-aw-0.3_armel.deb, it also supports two sets of URI/Map parameters, and easy toggling these.)

I think the option to perform GPS tracking with closed device cover is an important feature for outdoor activities with Maemo-Mapper & GPS, such as hiking, running, cycling,..

(NOTE: you must also disable the corresponding device's global setting: 'Tools' -> 'Control Panel' -> Connectivity' -> 'Disconnect when cover on device').

It would be really great if gnuite could add such a feature into his Maemo-Mapper mainline, which is already at v1.1.0, while my modification is still based on v1.0.1 (this has no timestamps in gpx-files).

http://maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-use...ly/001588.html

Maemo Mapper is not a tracking program. It is a display program. Since Maemo Mapper can perform no useful display functionality when the cover is on, it turns off all of its functionality in order to save battery power.

Enhancement ....
 

Today on my route I had to make more than 1 delivery at once and decided to try to add a route to my existing 1st route. I discovered hat while it was possible (a big plus), it was too cumbersome at this stage to use (a big negative)... cancelling ea other out, heh. To add a route on top of your current route, you have to go into 'Route>Download' and copy the lat/long from the clipboard. It was at this point I found my first bug So.... bug report.... 'Waypoint>Copy lat/long to Clipboard' returns answer 'latitude:46.0000000'... it actually says 'latitude' and does not have longitude at all. To enter a lat/long into your text field to obtain a route, it takes the '46.000000, -121.0000000' format with no words etc, so the copy feature of press-and-hold should load the lat/long this way for us, too, heh.

Enhancement:
Please add, in the 'Route>Download' popup window, a button to click that says 'Add Dest' for Add Destination. Clicking this pops up another window with one text window field, and two buttons, ok and cancel. If we put in our address and hit ok, the route appends to the end of the last route generated automatically, allowing us to quickly load any number of destinations before we ever get on the road. Of course, now that we have a bunch of green lines on the map crisscrossing each other, you may have to make all but the CURRENT route yet another color like grey or yellow. And as we arrive at one destination and begin our track to the next destination on our multi-route setup, the 2nd route then becomes the new green one.

Of course, not all GPS' provide perfect results, so if there is a feaure to have multi-routes that change colors as you enter/exit each stage of your multi-route setup, then we'd need a 'Force Arrival of Current Route' button somewhere to tell Maemo Mapper that 'hey, my GPS is stupid cause we ARE there now, so go ahead and start the next segment of the route... changing segment colors, etc...'

Aaaargh, I've added too much to your plate.... not my intention. I'd just like a clean way to add multiple routes into one huge setup while yet NOT adding confusion. I can force MM to do this, it just takes me 5 minutes, and I can't be sitting in my car that long... if you can use the idea, great, otherwise I understand.

Later.

Hi, I just tried maemo mapper, and it really works well.

I've just noticed a problem with the gpx site at http://gnuite.com:8080/cgi-bin/gpx.cgi.

If I use as a source or destination a location in the northeastern italy, it doesn't work: try for example to get the file from roma to bilbao and it works, try from roma to venezia and it doesn't work. The same with other cities

Yes; this has been fixed, but hasn't been checked into SVN yet.

It already works this way. Opening (or downloading a route without auto-update) appends the route to the end of your existing route. You have to "Clear Route" first in order to replace a route.

Downloading a route with auto-update replaces your current route because the auto-update must update from your current location to a single location (the entered destination), so it doesn't make sense to append an auto-route to the end of another route.

The GPX Driving Directions site only works with directions that work in Google Maps. If the given source and destination do not work with Google Maps, then they will not work in the GPX Driving Directions site. In your case, "roma italy" to "balbao spain" works in Google Maps, but "roma italy" to "venezia italy" does not. I don't know why the former works in Google Maps but the latter doesn't - perhaps they don't have enough road data.

ooops, not what I meant, sorry....
 

I apologize for not being clear enough about what I'm after, heheh, but I am not asking for the functionality because I discovered last night that you programmed it that way already.... I was hoping (when your plate isn't so full with the other stuff) that you would make a way to enter the multiple routes more streamlined for faster data entry. I am happy to feedback the idea to save you the hassle. It could go like this....

Route>Download.... popup window. Route popup window has these features, as discussed from previous threads plus this one:

1) Use GPS location checkbox (in its current pos)
2) Auto Update checkbox (in its current pos)
3) Origin and Dest text box (in cur pos)
New:
4) Swap button (swap Origin fields with Dest by clicking once)
5) Clear Fields button. (Data in Origin and Dest fields should remain populated until cleared by user in order to expediate item #4 from this list.
6) 'Grab Dest' button. This could be the defacto multiple route feature, so it would be to where we append our routes. (This button grabs the Destination coords from the previous route added by user but puts it in Origin field automatically because we're appending another route now, so auto-update feature greys out to prevent being checked. Destination field clears to make room for the next destination to be typed in.)

This feature would just make it very fast to load multiple routes.

And... I'm still gunning for all non-current the routes being another color until you get to them, so you need to number each route internally as the user adds thrm via the Grab Dest button, etc...

Examples of full concept: Say I'm taking the family on a vacation. Disneyland, Six Flaggs, and Universal. I load all three via 'Grab Dest' one at a time and set off. Disneyland is green, the other two are yellow on my route. I get to Disney, and head toward Six Flaggs, Disney turns off, my new route Six Flaggs turns green, Universal is still yellow. Once we get to Six Flaggs, it turns off and now turns our Universal route green. This coloring system also prevents confusion when lines cross on multi routes ... because only the current route will be green. (I say green and yellow here only to clarify my idea, each color can be whatever each user defined in their own Colors setting.)

Or say I type in an addy to a party. After six hours of hilarity, it's time to go, but it's dark and I can't remember the way out. I bring MM up from the desktop and go into Route>Download and click Swap, and hit ok. Voila! The way out!

Once this multi-route functionality is added (IF) we might then ask for a way to reorganize our routes to save gas. Say we have 8 places on our route, and 3 of them nearly overlap by a few blocks.... could we move routes around to put those three together 1...2....3.... in order? We often times can't tell how close deliveries will be until after we've added in all of our address in MM and then pan around the map, but a lot of green lines makes it confusing. We might at this point need a way to visualize all the Destinations more easily by turning off the green lines and just have a flashing dot where your destinations are to see which ones are close in order reorganize them? In this 'Destination Visualization' mode, each Dest has the number floating over it that you entered it as. If we click on that Destation's flashing icon, a window pops up with 16 buttons numbered 1 through 16 that reads "Swap With Which Item #?' You then pick something else. We could do all of our reorgs, and then exit that mode to reenable MM's regular use. Just a thought....

I hope I am helpful here and not an irritant, hehehe. Yours truly,

ceklund

Tell you what. I'll add to the "Download Route..." dialog box a "Use End of Current Route" checkbox right below the "Use GPS Location". I think that should be sufficient to handle your use case. I don't want to turn Maemo Mapper into a bloated "GPX Route Editor" - that's not what it's for.

I've already mentioned that I would add a swap button. A clear button may also be useful.

As for the different colors, I'd rather not introduce another color for routes. If you prefer not to see so many routes at once, then just save them as different GPX files and load them separately.

I only get *parts* of the pacific to show up and only from zoom 0-10. Everything else is just black screen.

Using mm 1.1, 2006 OS
uri is
http://kh.google.com/kh?n=404&v=6&t=%s

Ideas?

FWIW, I've put a port of gpsd 2.33 on the 2006 application catalog today. There are no gui clients, and cgps seems broken, but 'gpspipe' works (and, of course, so does gpsd).

DBUS support is compiled in but untested.

Brad.

Another nice thing about using gpsd is we can pretty easily set up the 770 to be a bluetooth gps repeater for those times you want to tinker or compare the 770 head-to-head with another pda.

POI for Maemo Mapper
 

First: thanks Gnuite, good work.

Because I needed, I implemented poi for maemo-mapper. All poi is stored in sqlite database, code is very ugly, but works for me. See screenshot.

http://eko.one.pl/index.php?page=Nok...20maemo-mapper

Cezary.

[#10] Implement GPX Driving Directions Internally
Does it mean that won´t be necessary to be connected to Internet in order that maemo mapper shows the route? Is that possible?

No, you will still need access to the internet. It just means that you won't have to go through http://gnuite.com:8080/cgi-bin/gpx.cgi in order to get directions (which is what the code does now). This is good for people behind firewalls that don't allow them to access websites at port 8080. It should also increase performance slightly, at the slight cost of added code in memory.

Very nice! This is important to have in a GPS program and I'm excited to try some points with it. Do you have any plans to allow creation/editing of POI on the 770? This would be ideal for marking places you'd like to return to or just manually entering POI on the fly.

Larry

Creating poi on n770? Why not, I will do that.

UPDATE: need some code clean-up, but working.

Gpsd 2006
 

It looks like gpsd has been released for 2006, any idea when it will be available for use in maemo-mapper? I think you said this would solve my NMEA output problem?

It seems that flite (voice announcement of waypoints) will be delayed, see the latest blog entry at http://moimart.org/ :(

Any chance of a diff or binary?

Thanks!
Larry

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

gnuite, a more noticeable announcement of waypoints is badly needed. The ding is a bit too faint but acceptable. Flite is delayed. The textbox displaying the announcement is not easy/safe to read in a moving car. Someone above seemed to have a way to icrease font size, any chance of implementing this? I'm travelling to Italy next week, all maps/routes are ready to go...

Today afternoon, on my website.

Cezary

hi,

Nice job Cezary, good to have new developers working on mapper!

I belive POI will be very important part of future Mapper. And as quite integrated core functionality (compared to for example enabling tracking with cover closed), IMHO it should be developed like gnuite has planned it. All this to enable all the planned funtionality and not just presenting poi data on map.

Maybe you could join the mapper development team?

just my 2 cents.

- hallax

So, I've been using the 2006 OS and the updates to mapper and I've been having a problem. When I go to download a route, I start typing and it pulls up 'previous' selections. Like if I type in a '1' it will display the last address I used that had a '1' in it. How-ever, I'm unable to click, stab or do anything to select the address that appears. I have to type the whole thing in by hand. Am I missing something obvious?

I'm using the version from the packages that get updated automatically, should I should have the latest version.

btw, I'm also driving to Oregon soon and will be taking it all the way there and back :-D

script to download maps for maemo mapper
 

hi all,

last week i downloaded a python script for downloading maps of google.
it was a bit buggy , so a made it a bit more robust. enjoy

ps: use at your own risk ;)

call example: (get the netherlands zoom level 3)

./getmaps -t 53.820112 -l 3.087158 -b 50.233152 -r 7.69043 -z 3

---->8----->8------

see attachment

I had noticed the same problem, but if you user your 770 direction pad and push up or down you can see which one it selects and use the button in the middle of the direction pad to make the selection. It can be hard to tell which one is selected, especially if there are only two. It would be nice to see a color on the selected address, but it does work.

Hi all,

can somebody let me know how i can download maps for the netherlands?

regards...

you can try http://www.avraam.org/winmapper.htm

Yeah, unfortunately this appears to be the behavior of Maemo for autocompletes. As has been noted, you can't use the stylus to select one of the autocomplete suggestions - you have to use the DPad. And it can be difficult to see which one is actually selected if there are only two suggestions...

I hope the Maemo developers work on usable autocomplete.

I am travelling in europe with Mapper and everythng has been great, but today google stopped to give out waypoints! Route is still coming Ok (thank god for that), but no waypoints. I drowe 4 times to wrong direction today (as many as whole week before that)! Can anybody find reason and cure for this?

Looks like Google is changing the format frequently.
It would be nice, if maemo-mapper could support importing alternatives like
http://www.elsewhere.org/journal/gmaptogpx
(they seem to be up to date)

Can you post an example GPX file produced by that software so that I can try to fix Maemo Mapper?

It may be that I am selectively blind, but is there any way to CREATE a waypoint in maemo-mapper without use of a GPX file or GPS?
I have cached map data that I will be using on a trip, and I would like to be able to mark locations with small decriptions on it. Is this possible already, or am I requesting a feature?

It's only a bookmarklet, so installation should be no issue for firefox.

Format differences:
Two files can be created: one for the route (in track format) and one for directions (with direction descriptions as <cmt> instead of <desc>)
in waypoint, route or track format.

I believe this is possible with the patched version done by cjackiewicz, on this page:
http://eko.one.pl/index.php?page=Nok...20maemo-mapper

The feature you're looking for is POI-- Points of Interest. With this version it's possible although you can't edit/remove them currently. Make sure you add at least one point of interest manually (As shown on the web page) or it will crash when you try adding one in Maemo Mapper.

Larry

bug report
 

Gnuite,

I have the newest version of Maemo Mapper and everything was working fine 2 days ago, but starting today the announcement features no longer work at all. There is no chime as I approach waypoints like it used to, and the text popups no longer actually pop up!

The green route line is still there and my blue-dot position is shown, but that's it. I've checked all the settings a dozen times... they haven't changed, but somehow these features stopped working.

The only thing I diid was install the Descent II game (which I can't play because they provided no levels on their site like they said they did), and I installed xournal and Ogg Vorbis. Can installing apps break current features inside MM? I so, that sucks.... I'll uninstall them. YOUR app takes top priority.

Later.

Were the green dots (along the green line) still there? If not, then the waypoints aren't being generated.

I just tested the GPX Directions web page, and no waypoints are being generated. As was suggested earlier, it looks like Google Maps has changed their output format. I'll have to fix GPX Directions to work with the new format. Fortunately, this doesn't require a change to Maemo Mapper.