I need routing based on GPX files but cannot persuade mappero to actually start the routing process. This is the actual situation:
I have a gpx file on the N900
in mappero I chose the routing icon (third from top on the left): a tab with ROUTE comes up:
I choose Open. and import the gpx file - mappero says 'route opened' and the route can be seen in nice green on the map.In the upper right corner is a red ">" and "6.2km 003:45" and under it a green flag with "797.0km". The trail is obviously 797 km long (bike trail along the river Elbe), but what does this red thingy with the 6.2 km mean?
what now? I would expect, that I could somehow define the 'trail head' and the say: "start routing". But that I cannot find anywhere.
I think the latest one has a bug somewhere in it. Seems to randomly crash on me. Trying to figure out how to run it from xterm to see what the error message is.
I see a major problem with the map files... I pre-downloaded a few maps (along route) for a trip. The size of the map is less than 1GB, but size on disk, is 13GB. This will soon eat up all the memory in n900.
i also noticed the rather large storage area needed for maps. I downloaded about 900MB of maps, but it took 15GB of storage on n900... And i only downloaded the maps for the NE of USA. This means that the n900 can't even handle the entire USA -- it will run out of space really quick.
This is completely unacceptable to waste so much space.
As far as I understand, maemo-mapper was using sqlite db for tiles some time ago. Then this was replaced with filesystem-based solution for some reason...
I didn't know where to put my comments regarding this application so I hope you don't mind creating another thread.
In general I think it's very useful and has a lot potential. With recent voice navigation feature it's even more useful then ovi maps.
I still have one major thing I would like to improve and I was wandering what do you think.
Your position on the screen:
By default you're located on the center of the screen[position A] . Once you start moving with auto rotation enabled screen will center you again once you get to 25% distance to the edge of the screen [position B].(see attachment)
As a result most of the time you see form 50% to 25% of the map in front of you. That forces me to zoom out to be able to see the track more in advance.
First request: Is there any chances to make possible to set my default position on the screen and if possible put it 20% from the bottom constantly. This way 80% of the screen would show the track in front of me, which is what I am most of the time interest in.
Second request: I know it's maybe a small thing but very annoying. Is it possible to keep my location in the same place on the map ALL THE TIME (fixed) and only move map in the background. Don't move this blue dot. Similar like you have in ovi maps or any other gps system. I don't mind if it would be have for CPU as most of the time when I use GPS i plug the charger.
I played with all possible settings for Auto-center and didn't see to much difference so please correct me if I am wrong and this functionality already exist.
Beside this I have no other comments. Application is perfect and I use it on regular basis.
