TA-t3 | # 21 | 2007-11-02, 13:47 | Report

I don't seem to be able to download ge satmaps at the moment (did refresh the download list, still the same). However ge street work. But I noticed that the 'Processing' bar always take a long time to finish, even though in ge street mode the picture is updated almost immediately.

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penguinbait | # 22 | 2007-11-02, 13:48 | Report

Awesome as always!!!

I installed this morning before long drive, ran under KDE, found GPS, downloaded maps from my 5.99 tmobile plan, worked flawlessly. I was confused and thought the maps were wrong area because of rotation But that was just my confusion about what was happening. I did not test anything significant, but all the features I did, worked without issue. The CPU usage during map rotation remained very low. This is an awesome update to an already terrific product. I still vote Maemo Mapper the best application ever written for a maemo linux device.

Thanks Gnuite!!!!

luca | # 23 | 2007-11-02, 13:53 | Report

I forgot to turn off auto-dowload before leaving home, and as soon as I lost the connection I entered in an endless loop of connection attempts. Maybe it's just a maemo fault, but until I got a connection I couldn't access maemo mapper (or anything else for that matter).
I also tried a test route and the option to download maps following the route is grayed out.

TPC | # 24 | 2007-11-02, 13:58 | Report

Sorry for making three posts almost in a row, but I noticed some other things. When scrolling outside the "edge" of the world it goes out then bumps you back in. It would have been nicer if it would have prevented you from going outside at all, as it takes a few noticable milliseconds to redraw the screen.

Also the menu buttons for scrolling the map doesn't work (altought the hardware keys work fine, and I don't see why anyone would want to use the menues for that as its much slower, so why have them in the menues?)

I was downloading maps for a large area (176mb in total) and while waiting I thought I'd check out the POI browser, but that seemed to freeze the download of the map, it was just sitting there not downloading anything, and the database file not getting any bigger if I du -h ed it in a terminal.

A few feature suggestions while I'm at it:
You should be able to select a few icons for POIs rather than just having a dot, would be much more usable.

Also could you make the description part of a POI longer than two lines? 5-8 lines or so would be optimal, I use maemo mapper for geocaching and store down alot of info about each location, and having to scroll after reading two lines is extremly annoying.

The screen rotation feature is useful, but when you're standing still and the GPS position is drifting its a bit annoying that it keeps rotating in random directions, especially in areas where the position isn't very accurate it could jump a few meters here and there every few seconds and it will rotate in different ways. If there could be some lower speed that it has to go above to count to rotate the screen that would be nice. Maybe you didn't notice because there is good accuracy in your area, but I'm so far north that EGNOS (europeean version of WAAS) doesn't work here, so it can be bad at times. Would be nice if the same lower speed limit applies to adding points to the route so it doesn't look like you're going around in circles when you're actually standing still. Having this limit just below walking speed would be optimal, maybe it could be a configurable value.

Thanks for the release by the way, downloading maps works greater and seems more reliable than the old version, and even thought I see what you mean with drawing the maps being slower (especially if its high resolution sattelite or aerial photos and rotation is on) its certainly worth the extra features.

I'm gonna go out and test it more thourougly now, and will report here on any additional bugs I find.

Edit: turns out that it wasn't in a row, a lot of people posted in between

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dormant | # 25 | 2007-11-02, 14:01 | Report

Haven't downloaded yet - WiFi at work is broken so I have to wait to get home.

BIG THANKS to gnuite. I hope Nokia appreciate your work as much as we do.

sondjata | # 26 | 2007-11-02, 14:02 | Report

Rotating Views! OH BO OH BOY OH BOY!!!

Thanks.

sondjata | # 27 | 2007-11-02, 14:10 | Report

Definitely heavier on the CPU. ;-\

consean | # 28 | 2007-11-02, 14:14 | Report

thanks;
have setup d-pad and every thing is ok

zeez | # 29 | 2007-11-02, 14:24 | Report

Very nice work! Thanks a lot!!
One question so: Everytime i drag the map the "new" area that comes into view is black and does not get drawn before i stop dragging the map. This is the case even for areas where i have downloaded all maps before. Not sure if that is how it is suppoed to be, since dragging is a new feature...

jdr93 | # 30 | 2007-11-02, 14:42 | Report

gnuite, i like the new version, seems to work better in many respects, and seems more intuitive. on my n800 it seems quite fast, even with 'auto-rotate' turned on.

a couple of thoughts:

i would like to see the "make a new route" selection on the first page of the drop down menu.

i tried out a quick route-search last night right after i installed the program and saw that it had selected the longest and most out of the way route, but one which used a major road. i'd like a selection capability that finds the most direct route, or the fastest route.

i presume you mean 'interstate' when asking whether to use highways?

john