That Settings dialog box automatically does the "Audto-detecting GPS Receiver" thing whenever it is started and the MAC field is empty. If you empty that field and then save the settings, then the next time you start the Settings dialog box, it will do the auto-detection. A little cumbersome, I know, but it's only ever done once in the life of Maemo Mapper. It will get better with a future release, though.

The auto-center mode is not changed when the fullscreen mode is changed. At least, that's the behavior I experience. Is anyone else seeing differently?

Devoting a sub-menu or hardware button to this is not ideal (especially since there are no more hardware buttons I could use!). I agree it's a little dangerous, but I would change the setting only in a still position. Once you get the setting to your liking, you never have to change it again, so it's a one-time inconvenience.

I've have a few requests for something like this; it will be in a future version of Maemo Mapper (though personally I'll never use it, since I prefer to see map, not text).[/QUOTE]

Thanks for the feedback!

Erasing what I had in there and leaving a blank field and pressing OK was what I tried first. If that is how it is supposedto work then that is quite intuitive. However, the 00:'s were stuck in there until I fed it a valid HW address. I just tried deleting my current address and it will not get rid of it. It comes back even after restarting mapper. I am doing all this with the GPS Enabled toggled off to avoid the GPS search box popping up always. I am not sure if that factors into things.

I can confirm, I've experienced the same behaviour.

My colour blindness makes it difficult to see the route line over main roads. The track colour stands out better. Is there any chance to make these colours adjustable? As a fallback position I'd be more than happy to try out a few combinations and report back which one looks OK. (For once I could make good use of my defective X chromosome... every 8-10th male has it BTW).

The maps are downloaded straight from the map service. You'd have to edit the map colors by detecting colors. If they do anti-aliasing, that would be hard work.

I meant to change the colour of the route line drawn by Maemo-mapper, not the colour of the roads.

Yeah, I can add that to a future version of Maemo Mapper. Thanks for the suggestion!

Maemo Mapper v0.2 has been released. See the Maemo Mapper v0.2 thread for more details.

tiny hack to make 'Download Area' easy to use (in v0.1)
 

I added a few lines of code to maemo-mapper v0.1 to make 'Download Maps by Area' easy to use:

The coordinates of the current and previous View Center are automatically filled into the fields for Top-Left and Bottom-Right Latitude and Longitude in the 'Download Maps by Area' window.

Thus, to download an area, just tap two opposite corners of an imaginary rectangle on the current map, and then go to the menu 'Maps' -> 'Download Area...'. The corresponding values will have been filled in. Of cause you still can edit them. Now the only thing that remains to be done manually by you is to select the Zoom levels on the second tab of the window.

My change is only 16 lines of Gnuite's v0.1 source. A patch can be found here: http://armin-warda.de/maemo-mapper-0.1-aw-0.1.patch

An executable with this patch applied can be downloaded here: http://armin-warda.de/maemo-mapper (Sorry, no .deb - simply replace the original /var/lib/install/usr/bin/maemo-mapper with it.)

P.S.: Just finished this before I read that v0.2 is available now. Will have a look at v0.2 to determine if it needs this hack, too.

Armin.

gnuite,

your MaemoMapper is a real killer app for the N770! I have been thinking about offline usage and supplying map data that has been downloaded previously. With a lot of small files, the wasted space can become as large as the actual data. My first idea was to package this and use the Gnome VFS to access the archive. I know that there is a module for TAR archives, but the TAR format is a really bad idea when accessing map files randomly. ZIP would be better suited for random access, but there is no module that can do it on the fly (without unpacking to a temp folder).

The alternative would be to create our own package format, basically consisting of a header and a large BLOB with all the image data. The header would contain meta data (package, covered area), information for one or more maps (map type, URL) in one or more zoom levels and most importanly 2d arrays mapping tiles to offsets in the BLOB. Map data can also be pre-processed during packaging, e.g. "103 byte street tiles" and corresponding topo tiles being removed etc.

My Maemo experience is still very limited. Assuming that I would create a tool to build such an archive, would you implement the necessary lookup and config dialogs in MaemoMapper?

I know that in a few years, this might not be necessary anymore, but with roaming data access being quite expensive, this is still interesting when traveling to foreign countries.

Jens.