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And after four "Galileo" iterations, it does "Figaro"?

lol. Yeah, like we can't hack around that. And on a side note though, It's interesting to see that the Google engineers at least have a sense of humor.

i tried to add multimap in my repostorys, but failed!
maybe you have some ideas....

here is a very helpful link http://forum.mgmaps.com/viewtopic.php?t=2692

this is really upseting. google maps are the best...

Actually it's qole who has the sense of humour.

I've had a look at the google maps javascript and Galileo is hard coded.

It may be hard coded, but that's still going to require someone to figure out how to get around that when adding it to a mapping program. I think it's designed to prevent map programs that use single function URL's from accessing it. I don't think they expect to stop everyone, just those who don't have the means or ability to circumvent said anti-leaching technology.

In other words, the bad guys will still get access, but us legit users won't. Ah well. Of course, there's a download script floating around the forums somewhere built with Python that could easily be hacked to take advantage of this multifunction URL. Then you'd just run the script and let it do it's work.

The only downside is, someone needs to adapt it to run multiple strings or else child processes, because the way it is now, it's too bloody slow. I'm running it now on my utility server and I'm closing on the 3rd day and I've only cleared 650,000 images out of some 6.5 million I need to complete my database. T_T

I've got the sdk installed and have downloaded the mm source code. My plan is to run some tests tomorrow to see if this avenue is worth pursuing.

The current valid url is almost unchanged:

http://mt.google.com/vt/x=%d&y=%d&z=%d

The issue now is that the zoom parameter is inverted.
Value 0 shows the entire earth and 17 shows the closest view.
So when maemo mapper try to get a url with z=6, it should be
z=11 (17-6). When mm say z=5, it should be z=12 (17-5), and so on.
I think the only way to get mm to work with this is to modify the source
code, but i couldn't compile mm yet.

Do you have the URL for google satellite?
Thanks

Using the same trick for satellite as the street maps this currently works for me:
Standard disclaimer on the amount of data Google will allow you to download.

I found some confusion on the scale factor in the URLs it seems that Google have an inverted 'z' parameter that is now used on their web interface, replacing this with 'zoom' allows the standard scale factor from maemo-mapper to be used. Sorry i missed this from my original post on how i got the new URL.

Google also seem to have street overlays for the satellite images from the following URL:
I can't figure out how to get these layered over the satellite imagery in maemo-mapper, anyone got an idea?