I've created a couple of Python scripts that should benefit people wanting to scan their own paper maps to use with Maemo Mapper (for hiking and such), plus some instructions so you don't fall into the same pits that I fell into:-)
Currently command-line only (MacOSX or Unix), but I'd love help on extending them, adding groovy user interfaces, porting to other OSes, etc.
Download at <http://homepages.cwi.nl/~jack/maemomapperhacks.tgz> and please let me know what you think!
Thanks go to scudderfish, with whose work I started, and of course to gnuite, without whose work this would be pointless!
It's hiking season here in Bavaria and google maps aren't awfully useful.
So I tried integrating scanned maps into maemo-mapper repositories.
With the qt program mapfit one can interactively warp the scanned map until it (roughly) fits a frame of tiles taken from a maemo repository.
I really love this Maemo Mapper after discovering this on maemo garage. However, after using this for approximately 2 weeks, the software has suddenly been unable to download maps using the example URI's given at the beginning of this thread.
Is anyone else experiencing this as well? This stopped for me last night (11/15).
Just grabbed this app and a Garmin 10 Bluetooth GPS device. I set the Google address and then detected the Garmin.
It then says downloading maps but doesn't show anything but a black screen. The GPS shows a satellite lock but nothing comes up. Then if I close the app and open it again it says it's scanning for the GPS device.
first to get the maps you have to download them over a wireless network connection or follow the notes on copying then to the rs-mmc card. has to be in a specific directory structure.
i had some trouble downloading the maps, and went through my network settings. i didnt change anything, but save the settings again, and all was well (other apps had trouble too and they cleared after). i do notice once in a while, that the apps seems to drop the network stack and i have to close the app restart/reconnect to the wireless network and relaunch the app.
the new OS image seems to have tightened up the networking a bit and it seems better now.
first to get the maps you have to download them over a wireless network connection or follow the notes on copying then to the rs-mmc card. has to be in a specific directory structure.
i had some trouble downloading the maps, and went through my network settings. i didnt change anything, but save the settings again, and all was well (other apps had trouble too and they cleared after). i do notice once in a while, that the apps seems to drop the network stack and i have to close the app restart/reconnect to the wireless network and relaunch the app.
the new OS image seems to have tightened up the networking a bit and it seems better now.
Thanks. I'm on a wireless connection now and it does attempt to download maps and actually shows it doing something. I also have the cache dir setup for a folder on my memory card called "maps".
I did update to the latest OS release of 2006 and the GPS issue now seems resolved. I just can't get maps.
Only black screen now. Download msg ok, I have empty directories in cache. I tried the newer URI, same deal. I just ordered GPS last week. Hope I can get problem resolved before it gets here.
Eric
