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Re: Maemo Mapper v1.4 for 770/N800

Maemo Mapper becomes unresponsive after following a track for some time. The screen becomes white and I have to reboot. Furthermore it takes a good 2 minutes or more for the application to load. My gps is a holux gpslim 236. I'm using a kingston rs-mms 2gb formatted in FAT32.

Re: Maemo Mapper v1.4 for 770/N800

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Originally Posted by Mara (Post 63807)

Lately my Maemo Mapper (latest version) on N800 (latest firmware) does not seem to detect if there is no Bluetooth GPS device in range. It just sticks on saying "Searching for GPS receiver", while there is none (or any other Bluetooth device) in range. Before it used to work that after few seconds it said something like "No GPS device could be found... Retry?". If I selected "No" then the Mapper quit trying, just like it should.

I was wondering if the latest software installs (RTComm, UKTUBE, MicroB) coudl have caused this... but I tried uninstalling RTComm with no chance in behavior. I didn't try to uninstall the other software yet, since I could not think why they would have anything to do with this... or can they?

Anyone seen the same, or know how to resolve this?

UPDATE: I purchased another N800 and after I flashed it to the latest firmware (without restoring backup), installed xterm, RTComm, Skype, MicroB, Mplayer and MaemoMapper it does exactly the same thing!!! Clearly this problem is reproducible....

Gnuite: Do you have any idea why is this happening? I suspect RTComm has something to do with this... Maybe I just need to reflash back to stock and install apps one by one to determine which one causes this?

I have just gotten back from a 3 week trip across the USA, and I used maemo-mapper and mappoint with a GPS. While mappoint is nice because it has all the maps already, its problems were consistent, without my maemo-mapper I would have been hosed several times. Three Cheers for Gnuite, hip hip hurray, hip hip hurray, hip hip hurray. Woo Hoo

OK, enough butt kissing. I was driving my 4x4van and towing my boat, but what was not always apparent to me is whether I was heading up or down a mountain at any given time. The way everything slopes it can appear to the eye you are going down hill when you are climbing and the reverse. I used the GPS info to see my elevation quite often, but when you are driving through narrow winding mountain passes with no gaurd rails, your not to likely to be able to look down at MM and quickly pull elevations from the information displayed. I am wondering if it would be possible or if others would also find this useful, to add an indicater, perhaps just an arrow pointing up or down depending on whether your going up or down. Someting you could turn on or off like the speed indicator.

Not sure if this has ever been requested, but I sure would have found this usefull on my trip. But even without it MM proved invaluable tool of the road. I was able to download most of the USA to level 6 without taking up to much space. I downloaded the areas I was spending time in down to level 2. Maemo Mapper alone make the purchase of an n800 worth every penny.

Seriously, best app ever made for maemo, No Question!!! for those old timers who ran GPSdrive on 2005OS on 770, you know what a treat we have been given with this app.

Re: Maemo Mapper v1.4 for 770/N800

Is there any way to force MM to re-download a particular map... The OpenStreetMap near to my home is being updated quite frequently at the moment, but if I already have that portion of the map downloaded, it does not seem to update it, which means at certain zoom levels I am missing data.

Re: Maemo Mapper v1.4 for 770/N800

I believe you can delete the same way you can download an area of the map, you can also select delete the area, and select the zoom levels you want to delete. Then just redownload the area. I am unaware if there is an easier way?

Re: Maemo Mapper v1.4 for 770/N800

Ah yes, easy when you know how - I was worried about how best to select the co-ordinates, but it seems it defaults to the current selected area, which worked fine.

Thanks - new maps currently downloading :)

Re: Maemo Mapper v1.4 for 770/N800

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Originally Posted by uslaves (Post 64684)

here is an example of a chart for new york:
http://mapserver.maptech.com/homepag...latlontype=DMS

The repository won't work out-of-the-box with Maemo Mapper. The lat/lon are specified in degrees (as opposed to Maemo Mapper's and Google's format, which uses a grid-based coordinate system based on the mercator projection). Also, the zoom doesn't match up with Maemo Mapper's, so some conversion would have to be done.

If they have a WMS-based version (which looks a little similar to the URL you posted, but not close enough to identify it as WMS), Maemo Mapper can support that (with the additional "proj" package installed). Otherwise, it doesn't look easy for Maemo Mapper to support that particular URL format, I'm afraid.

Re: Maemo Mapper v1.4 for 770/N800

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Originally Posted by Nik1 (Post 64768)

Gnuite when can we expect ver 2.x maemo mapper, im really looking forward to it :)

You know the answer to that: "when it's ready".

Since you all are so anxious, I'll probably release an initial version of 2.x, with a subset of the new features that I have in mind (most notably the database repository).

So much to do... So little time!

Re: Maemo Mapper v1.4 for 770/N800

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Originally Posted by Mara (Post 64913)

The symptom that you described ("It just sticks on saying "Searching for GPS receiver") implies some sort of problem with the bluetooth framework.

Maemo Mapper v2.x will bring a new framework for communicating with the GPS receiver. Maybe it will help. I don't know what to do for the 1.x code line, though.

Re: Feature Request

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Originally Posted by penguinbait (Post 64933)

I was driving my 4x4van and towing my boat, but what was not always apparent to me is whether I was heading up or down a mountain at any given time. The way everything slopes it can appear to the eye you are going down hill when you are climbing and the reverse. I used the GPS info to see my elevation quite often, but when you are driving through narrow winding mountain passes with no gaurd rails, your not to likely to be able to look down at MM and quickly pull elevations from the information displayed. I am wondering if it would be possible or if others would also find this useful, to add an indicater, perhaps just an arrow pointing up or down depending on whether your going up or down. Someting you could turn on or off like the speed indicator.

It sounds like you want more detail in the velocity vector, specifically velocity in the Z plane (up/down). NMEA only provides heading in 2D (as a bearing from north); there is no NMEA protocol for tracking elevation change. Maemo Mapper would have to track that manually. It's possible, I guess, and I'll try to get around to it when I can.