If two adjacent points in the route fall within the same map, Maemo Mapper will only download the map once. It will not download the map multiple times.

There may be a problem with "Download by Route", though, and I'm investigating it.

Sorry for the inconvenience!

I am aware of this issue, which has to do with localization and the fact that NMEA (and GPX?) are locale-independent. In the future, I'll localize Maemo Mapper, but until then, I will be addressing this in Maemo Mapper v0.1.1 by explicitly setting the locale to "C".

First, if you haven't already, try rebooting the device to make sure that flite is in the PATH of the running Maemo Mapper.

Second, you probably know this, but you have to have a route in order to hear voice. The voice is emitted only as you approach a waypoint, which requires a route (with waypoints) to be loaded and a GPS receiver so that Maemo Mapper knows when you're approaching a waypoint. A waypoint in Maemo Mapper is defined as any trkpt in the GPX file that has a (non-empty?) "desc" tag attached to it.

Once you load a route, the route appears as a set of green circles connected by lighter-green lines. Your "next waypoint" is colored slightly darker than the other waypoints. When you get within a certain (speed-dependent) range of that waypoint, the voice is emitted and an info box in the upper-right corner displays the contents of the desc tag of that waypoint (e.g. "Turn left at Baker Street").

If you do not see the info box, then the voice will never be activated. Also, the voice is only emitted once per waypoint, whereas the info box is visible until you pass the waypoint, also at which point your "next waypoint" changes and the "darker green circle" moves to that next waypoint, and the process repeats.

Hope this helps.

P.S. Thanks for the donation!

nmea output and file format?
 

Is there a way for me to get the nmea output mapper is using, I had some scripts that I used with gpsdrive to cat /dev/rfcomm0. Is there any way to get to that?

Why does it save map files as jpg, when they are png files?

file 3014.jpg
3014.jpg: PNG image data, 256 x 256, 8-bit colormap, non-interlaced

gnuite,



As I am reading this thread I am realising how much effort you have put in this great program! Thanks for making GPS navigation available to us.

gnuite, this is such an excellent app that makes the cost of the 770 so much more tolerable. My thoughts on getting a GPS display unit for the car are now gone. Is there a way in which I can enter in POIs (points of interest) and get them to show up? e.g. free wifi hotspots? even manually would be fine, don't need automation. Thanks again!

Not at the moment, no.

You know, I'm not sure. I knew the data was PNG, but for some reason every example I saw online of getting maps from Google Maps used a jpg or jpeg extension, probably because they were working with the satellite data.

The extension doesn't really matter - just that it is consistent regardless of the true format. Maybe I should have just disregarded the extension entirely, but it's too late to do that now without asking people to rename all of the Map Cache data.

Not at the moment, but I'm hoping to incorporate this functionality in a future release.

Not at the moment, no.
 

Um any chance this is comming? maybe a check box to log all nmea data? Or can we use other GPS access like rfcomm with mapper?


Again, this thing is awesome :D

This software is awesome! Finally the bluetooth GPS I bought months ago is truly useful for something. GPSdrive is powerful but it wasn't stable or really usable on the 770.