I've fixed the GPX Driving Directions web site to support the "new" Google Maps output. Waypoints should be back - give it a shot and let me know if any particular pairs of sources/destinations don't work.

strange new behaviour
 

Hmmmm.... now, 50% of the time when typing in the address and hitting OK to connect to the GPX service, it suddenly drops my cellphone connection and when I hit YES to trying to reestablish the connection, it just won't connect and have to reboot. MM is becoming harder to use as the bugs crawl up out of their hiding holes. Let's squash'em! I wish I could help, but I'm not a programmer, but feedback can help, too.

Later....

PS: The chime and popups are back now... THANKS! You're quick! :)

Gnuite, any schedule for new Mapper version with new features / bug fixes?

;-)

- Hallax

Not a concrete schedule, no. I've been working 70 hours a week on my "real" job, so I've had very little time of late, but that ends in a few weeks, after which I'll have more time for Maemo Mapper.

I'd say the next release is out no later than a month or so from now. Critical bugs may prompt a more immediate bugfix release, but I don't know of any bugs that critical yet (maybe #50 - I haven't investigated it yet). Until then, cjackiewicz's patch works pretty well for POI.

flite
 

Hi,
Festival Lite (flite) for maemo mapper 1.1 2006OS??
gps altitudine in maemo mapper?
thanks from italy

Crash? When? Without any poi in database?

UPDATE: yes, stupid error. I fix this problem.

Mod. Maemo-Mapper v1.1 with 2nd set of URI/Cache, option to operate with closed cover
 

Here is a modified version of John Costigan's Maemo-Mapper v1.1 with a second set of URI/Cache, e.g. for easy switching between street maps and satellite images. The ESC-hardware-key now toggles the URI/Cache settings, while in the original version it toggles show/hide tracks.

The modified version also has the option to operate with closed device cover: you can disable the default behaviour to disconnect the bluetooth GPS connection when the cover is closed, if you unset 'Tools' -> 'Control Panel' -> Connectivity' -> 'Disconnect when cover on device' (Gconf-Key /system/osso/connectivity/IAP/disconnect_on_cover).

John's Maemo-Mapper focuses on in-car navigation. My modifications are useful for non-car navigation, e.g. while cycling, hiking, walking, running: satellite images are sometimes (but not always ;-) more useful than street maps for off-road navigation, operation with closed device cover is useful if you temporarily store the device in a pocket, but still want to record your track.

Before I already applied these modifications to version 1.0.1, now I ported my modifications to the current version 1.1.

Modified package:
http://armin-warda.de/maemo-mapper_1.1-aw-4_armel.deb

Source patches:
http://armin-warda.de/maemo-mapper-1.1-aw-1.patch
http://armin-warda.de/maemo-mapper-1.1-aw-2.patch
http://armin-warda.de/maemo-mapper-1.1-aw-3.patch
http://armin-warda.de/maemo-mapper-1.1-aw-4.patch

Modified source:
http://armin-warda.de/maemo-mapper-1.1-aw-4.c

gpx server down?
 

MM won't connect to GPX service for last two hours. Help!

I'm at work and can't do my job w/o MM!

What's up?

Same here, I can't download routes or anything. And I haven't had way points for awhile now! Add to all of that, I'm on a trip right now and I was actually relying pretty heavily on the MM!

Yeah, sorry, I'm looking into it. It was working the other day, so Google must have changed something again...

Issue downloading maps
 

I don't know if this is related to the same problem everyone else is having or just an error configuring MM on my part. I'm having the same problem as Westey was having where the screen is completely black except for the blue dot in the center. I was able to find the uri to enter and it appears to download the maps, but still just a black screen.

Hybrid images
 

Quite some time ago there was a question concerning maemo-mapper and hybrid images. Looks like there is no major obstacle displaying them - only some more hacking and having multiple mapping directories as precondition.

The following patch should be applied after armin's patches. With one directory for google earth and the other with uri:
you get the effects of the screenshot, when switching directories.

Currently it's only proof of concept and not really useful - more work has to be done.

Problem Downloading Maps
 

I have the same problem - just a black screen with a dot. Maemo Mapper says 'establishing GPS fix' but nothing happens. can anyone help please?

Since there's a problem connecting to the GPX server, anyway to generate routes using an external app and load them in maemo mapper? I've done a search in the forum, but didn't really find anything conclusive.

GMapToGPX
 

I use "GMapToGPX", on http://www.elsewhere.org/journal/gmaptogpx. This page will describe access to some Javascript that will take Google Map directions and generate GPX from them. You generate the directions with Google Maps, then pull up the Javascript, and it generates the GPX. There is a "Track" button that generates the track data that Maemo Mapper needs.

I generate the file on a PC and copy the file to the 770.

It's great and works well so far. I just discovered it.

-F

Marengo Route Planner
 

Another site where you can draw your own routes onto Google Maps is Marengo Route Planner. Here, you lay your own waypoints and the Javascript thing will generate the GPX.

Unfortunately, you have to change "rte" to "trk" and insert a "<trkseg>" tag pair by hand. However, a script can take care of that (I have not written it...yet).

-F

GPSBabel
 

and yet another option is to convert that same google maps javascript that frethop describes using gpsbabel:

http://www.gpsbabel.org/htmldoc-1.3.0/fmt_google.html

GpsBabel would be a nice start for incorporating the functionality directly into Maemo Mapper.
I compiled it on maemo SDK without any problem but when executing it, it gives me an error XML Reader:PArse : not well formed (invalid token).
So I suppose we're at the same point than gnuite (may be gnuite's site uses gpsbabel ?)
O Fred

The GPX Driving Directions web service is back online and working with the latest output from Google Maps.

No, Maemo Mapper doesn't use gpsbabel, but it looks like we use similar techniques.

Great, thanks gnuite !

GPS Info
 

Hi,
my next patch: GPS Info, display some textual GPS information (lat/lon, speed, satellites info, gps time (with local time zone). Details: http://eko.one.pl/index.php?page=Nok...20maemo-mapper. See screenshot.

If you have google map download troubles...
 

Hi all,

If you experience download troubles of the google maps, you can use this new link:

http://mt0.google.com/mt?n=404&v=w2....d&y=%d%zoom=%d

The old link(s) posted on this forum did't work (for me) any more.

And I've has success using this uri for satellite maps:

http://kh.google.com/kh?v=3&t=%s

I've downloaded your script,and it works fine. Would be possible to see towards what direction we go?
Thnks for you work.
Greetings.

stuck on "establishing GPS fix"
 

Just purchased a Bluetooth GPS Receiver GPT-700. From settings selecting scan finds the device and displays it's MAC address. After selecting OK and enabling GPS, a popup shows searching for GPS, then it switches to Establishing GPS fix where it stays...forever. Is there something I'm missing in the setup?

You need enough free sky for GPS to work. It doesn't work under a bridge, under water, inside your home ...

I just tried that, walking outside under open sky, no tall buildings, clear day. The status bar an Establishing GPS fix never progresses past the halfway point. I get the same result indoors.

What is the format for address entry for http://www.gnuite.com/cgi-bin/way.txt? For example, if I want to map way points between:

8905 SW Nimbus Drive, Beaverton, OR 97008
12286 SW Scholls Ferry Rd, Tigard, OR 97223

Everything I try gives:
Error: An error occurred while attempting to retrieve the driving directions - are the source and destination valid?

Thanks.

May be 'Nimbus Ave' works.

The routes are derived from google maps, so you can try out directions there. Whenever google maps asks for further specification, you simply get an error with maemo-mapper.

Routes
 

Personally I use Google Earth to get the coordinates of the places and input them. Google doesn't know anything about adresses in Finland.

The "progress bar" is a rough indication of the signal strength that you currently have. A full bar means you have plenty of signal. A half-bar means you may or may not have enough signal to acquire a fix (depending on your receiver). If it doesn't make it past the "Establishing GPS fix" progress bar, though, then your receiver is not indicating to Maemo Mapper that it has a valid fix. It may still provide lat/lon information (and Maemo Mapper will still use it), but it in that case it may be wildly off (so most receivers don't even bother guessing).

If you can never get a fix regardless of where you go, I would return the receiver and look for one with better sensitivity.

ReinhardE is right - when in doubt, enter the address(es) in http://maps.google.com/ and it should tell you what (if anything) is wrong with the address.

Very nice!! Great work, glad to see more progress on MM.

Larry

just took a 700+ mile round trip and MM worked quite well. biggest issue (and one that annoyed the wife to no end as she had to "fix" it) was that it kept loosing the GPS and only rebootong the n770 would bring it back. I do have "user ALL = NOPASSWD: /usr/sbin/hciconfig hci0 reset" in place and running the command in an xterm does not produce an error. in MM when the gps connection is lost and reconnected I get a very generic "error while scanning" message. the GPS seems to work fine otherwise and the time it takes to error seems completely random. first time was after 6 hours of driving, and then it was very frequent (10-20 minutes) until I unpluged power from the GPS and ran it on battery, then it was only every 3-6 hours. it seemed most likely to fail right before a complicated interchange :( . maybe the hci reset isn't enought? could the bluetooth drivers be unloaded and loaded again? and any idea on how to prevent it from needing reset in the first place?

also, trying to "download along route" at zoom level 3 and lower for 700 miles seems to overwhelm it even with swap enabled. ended up just zooming in on the towns I wanted and downloading those manualy for the lower zoom levels.

my only other gripe is that google driving directions are on crack. it would occationaly tell me to go off onto a secondary road when the highway simply S-curved a bit. due to this, the turn-by-turn pop-outs wold not appear without manual intervention. anyone know of a way to export Streets-n-Trips directions, or a GPX compatable service that works as well?

overall, quite the lifesaver! kept me from being completely lost when i decided to avoid the i-80 construction in south Chicago on the way back and jaunt across rural IL and IN from i-65 to i-57 via secondary roads :D (wife hates it when I do this too)

I did the same on a long trip recently! I've since learned from a post on here that switching to offline mode and back also fixes things and is a little easier.. possible without wifely help, even :)

It happens often enough to me that a button on the screen, or a key combination to initiate the reset would be useful.

ah, I guess going offline could unload the bt driver

Good idea. Here you are: http://eko.one.pl/index.php?page=Nok...g%20BT%20radio. ESC button now is "BT radio reset" button, of course you still need add line to your /etc/sudoers. Code taken from previous version of maemo-mapper. Please, test it.

I had the same issue and also did the 'sudoers' trick but didn't work for me.

After my vacation with the Nokia MeamoMapper System I tried the '/dev/rfcomm' trick and this works perfectly; no loss of BlueTooth GPS connection at all.

I modified my Nokia so it will automaticly connect to the GPS unit when I startup Meamo-mapper. Modify the /etc/bluetooth/rfcomm.conf file. (first gain root access to do this)
Replace the sample values with your own values (MAC address) and set BIND to yes. Then the connection will be established at each reboot.

Now even when I switch off the GPS or get away from my Nokia with it it reconnects immediately when switched on or get nearby again.

Question: Is it so that the BlueTooth hardware is now always active (and searching) and is draining the battery more if I don't use Maemo-mapper?

I'd think it would, though you could switch to offline mode and then it wouldn't (btw, where is this offline option? I odn't think it's just unchecking "enable gps" because that did not "fix" it)

It's in the menu when you press the on/off button once.