Sup,

I will clarify for you and everyone else one major known bug, Maemo-mapper as for now (version 0.1), has a bug, if the gps -receiver don't have a fix before maemo-mapper is launched, it will crash when it tries to get a fix.

This is a known bug and should happen with almost all of gps-receivers. You tried with getting a fix first and then launching mapper?

And, there is a list in this forum that hopefully will someday have quite a decent list of working gps-receivers: http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ead.php?t=1970

I'd believe that:

gdouble fraction = running_total * sqrt(num_sats_used)
/ num_sats_used / 100.0;

What if num_sats_used is zero?

divison by zero
 

Then the answer will be 0, if you turn it around then it will "divison by zero"and it will crash.

EDIT: didn't look close enough... yes it will crash if num_sats_used is 0.

Sorry :o

EDIT2: have to blame it on the early morning... need coffe...

That worked! I also noticed the icon changed post-reboot from the standard .deb packager icon to a "gridded-globe". I also got some strange behaviour post reboot where the app would close depending on the pattern of interaction with the settings. I found I had to setup the MAC to 00:00:00:00:00:00 and the URL, ok, disable GPS, close the app, reopen the app, then auto-download.

Also, I was zoomed in a bit too far!

Looking like a good app.

On the subject of where the application goes from here, rather than forking which in my opinion is rather coarse grained, why not go the plug-in route and allow people to develop and install what they _want_ to develop and install, upon the same basic mapping software?

Clearly the app would probably have to mature first, otherwise API instability would probably piss off a lot of plugin developers :)

thanks for the re-post, I'm sorry I did not noted the reply from gnuite. Anyway it doesn't work for me, because I can't replace the etc/profile file, as I have no permissions. Maybe I should have root access for this operation?

Hmmmm..... Is this comment correct or should the "not" be deleted?
Also, given that the other three constants start with RCVR_, I would call it RCVR_FIXED instead.

This patch check the NMEA checksum and doesn't skip potential end-of-string '\0' characters:

http://russnelson.com/maemo-mapper-0.1-nmea.patch

Actually, since we're working with floating point numbers here, the answer will be 0.0 / 0.0, which resolves to NaN. This is almost definitely why some have seen the gtk_progress_set_percentage CRITICAL assertion failure, since the protective BOUND() call would not detect a NaN. I'm not sure if that would cause a force-quit, though, since it's not a FATAL assertion failure, but I haven't actually tested the case with 0 used satellites, so I can't say for sure either way.

Actually, I think the real problem is that sometimes the "apps" directory itself is missing (if, for example, you never used the built-in e-mail client). So if you have "/home/user/apps", you'll be fine.

Also it appears that you need to be careful about what other bluetooth devices are near when you run it the first time after the install - the program tried to connect to my desktop (w/ a motorola bluetooth adapter) and it just wouldn't connect to my garmin gps. Even though I had it installed and working fine before (I just did a reflash).

The solution was to run "hcitool scan", note the gps' MAC address, then manually typing it into the settings menu.

Just in case somebody else finds themselves stuck like I was.

BTW, excellent work gnuite. If you're ever in SW Portland, I'll buy you a fine local microbrew (or two) at a real local dive.

Brad.