Re: Maemo Mapper suggestion?
 

It sort of does this already when you start to enter in an address you've used before a pop down box will show up with the full address as well as a list off address that might be close to the one you are looking for, just use the d-pad to select with a faint blue box and press the middle button.

Re: Maemo Mapper v1.4 for 770/N800
 

I got it!

Thanks,

Re: Maemo Mapper suggestion?
 

There is autocompletion in the text fields in the "Download Route" dialog. That should help at least a little. (Note that you have to use the D-Pad to actually choose the options from the pop-up list - a little hildon bug.)

There's also the original GPX Driving Directions Web Service, which uses cookies to save previously used locations. Maybe you'd find it more convenient to use that and open the resulting GPX files in Maemo Mapper?

I'll probably add a more complete "Destinations" framework someday, but it's not very high on my priorities list at the moment.

Re: Maemo Mapper v1.4 for 770/N800
 

Is it possible to record a track when Nokia 770 is closed by it's alumunium case?

Re: Maemo Mapper v1.4 for 770/N800
 

quick question... I have saved my track to a PC and want to plot it in google earth. In GE I go file>open and select the track that I saved but I can't get it to show anything, it shows up in the google earth places as a GPS device ,it is a GPX format from what I can tell, How come nothing shows up in google earth ??

thanks

Matthew

Re: Maemo Mapper v1.4 for 770/N800
 

I am completely newbie to this device. Planning to buy one very soon. I have a question.

My wife wants something to play music for her. She do not listen much but some times. So I thought of buying an iPod for her birthday untill i saw this. My idea is we can use this as GPS (of course we need to buy a blue tooth GPS satellite receiver). My understanding is, after installing the maps software, first we need to have internet connection and when we give the origin and destination it downloads the map into memory which can be used while driving.

Is that mean, we can not use this GPS thing if we want to go to another destination after disconnecting from internet. And even if we miss the road then it can not help use by re-calculating the another direction. Am I correct?

Another question is, once we buy a GPS satellite receiver do we need to pay any monthly fee for receiver?

Re: Maemo Mapper v1.4 for 770/N800
 

Correct

If you know all your destinations its easy enough to save all your routes into memory ahead of time and then pull them up when your ready to go to your next destination. You can also build up one big route with multiple destinations.

That is the one drawback, but if you use the google maps repository to download the maps, its pretty easy to eyeball a new direction since the maps are very clear. Much like use a map, except easier because know exactly where you are without trying to correlate paper map street names with street signs.

But I've found that there are enough open hotspots (MacDonalds, Hotels, etc) out there that when I've gotten into a pickle to just quickly stop, attach to a hotspot and regenerate a new route from my current GPS location.

Still even if you miss the street it's usually pretty easy to eyeball maemo-map for a direction back to the route. Sometimes you might miss a turn, but you'll know pretty quickly you missed it making it easy to get back to your original route quickly.

The only time, I've wish I could recalculate is when there is a problem on the road, such as an accident, and traffic is backed up.

Nope, the service is free and GPS receivers now a days are cheap, a really decent one can be had for $50.

As a public service announcement, I don't know gnuite other then from this forum, but maemo-mapper is a killer app for the IT and those of us who like to travel whether by car, bike, or foot find it invaluable. So show appreciations for the effort that went into building this app by donating some dough :D. Beats paying $100(s) for a similar commercial apps.

http://gnuite.com:8080/nokia770/maemo-mapper/

Plus, maybe it will help version 2.0 get out sooner :p

Re: Maemo Mapper v1.4 for 770/N800
 

Thanks to bac522, for your detail answers. Is there any way I can download all the US/Canada maps into memory (by using 2 or 4GB memory module) and use those in offline to get maps/directions when ever I needed without the internet connection? (planning to buy Nokia 770)

Re: Maemo Mapper v1.4 for 770/N800
 

Yes, you can download maps in bulk. Currently, there are space issues due to heavy use of individual (and often small) files in the file system, so 500 MB of map data may actually take up about 1 GB of actual flash memory, but there are ways to mitigate this. Maemo Mapper v2.0 should solve that problem completely by using a database instead of individual files.

Re: Maemo Mapper v1.4 for 770/N800
 

So how much space do I need to keep all US and Canada maps in street level? is 500MB enough? Anyways I am planning to buy memory, so I will buy accordingly.