Originally Posted by Wikiwide (Post 835902)

Quick reply...
I'm waiting impatiently for Point-Of-Interest.
Just like:
1. Click button;
2. Input text description;
3. Get a clickable pin at your current coordinates, which displays the text when clicked.

Useful for bus stops, benches, names of streets (Ct or St?), etc. I cannot keep them all in the head!

Originally Posted by woody14619 (Post 834990)

I think the idea was more to make a "jump to zoomlevel" setting.
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Maybe a screen widget can do this? Can the widgets do things like "jump to zoom level 16"? If so, I could make one for 9, and one for 16, and just jump between them.

Originally Posted by woody14619 (Post 834990)

Another issue: The reason I need to zoom back is because there's no way I've found to jump to the destination on a route. When using address lookup, I like to verify that the target looks sane, since I've seen Google return bad results at times when it doesn't quite know where something is. (eg. Putting you in the middle of a town when it can't find a street.) Being able to jump to a turn or the destination would be a nice feature. :)

Originally Posted by woody14619 (Post 834990)

That would be great. :) Also, saving routes is currently broken. When you go to save, it says "loaded in XXms", but doesn't give you the option to give it a name, and thus save it as a route. It does auto-save it with a time-stamp name, but with no way to rename it, it's not so useful. :)

Originally Posted by woody14619 (Post 834990)

Mappero stops drawing when the screen is off (may be worth a look to see how they do it). He also has a bit of code to keep the display on if the device is in motion. Handy if you're doing a short trip and don't have the device plugged in to a charger.

Originally Posted by Flandry (Post 835232)

Actually i was looking at the code on my flight home and it seems it uses powers of 2 to specify the range around the origin to download. Based on that it seems that only 2.5 km is available, but it's likely i missed something. Could you please explain what that power of 2 number is and how one could specify an arbitrary distance? It was trivial to add the button to request 2.5 km but i haven't had a chance to test if it actually works. It does make me wonder if the range is in km--it almost seems like it might be instead some multiple of the current map scaling. That would make my experience with downloading tiles make more sense.

Originally Posted by Flandry (Post 835232)

Should be, but i can get the same results with MAME (others have verified that), so the watchdog isn't doing its job or something. There are two different problems--one is that the ui gets frozen in whatever state it is in. The other is that the device crashes and shuts down, so maybe the watchdog catches it sometimes.

Originally Posted by Reeby (Post 835256)

Well, sorry in advance if I will now repeat myself or someone else here but just where is the "save position" option in this app?+?????

Originally Posted by Pigro (Post 835583)

Fair enough, and I agree that the ability to add any random map location as a POI would be very useful (i'm sure MartinK will consider this when he sees your post, probably just an oversight that he missed your original request).

However, POI's or Street names will work as I described in 99% of cases, so I don't see it as a biggie to wait until the developer gets around to looking at it for you. The other stuff he's working on is important to optimise download sizes, and if you're ever caught in your siberian wastes then you'll be needing a large preloaded set of map data regardlss of POI's (as you'll have bugger all mobile coverage I reckon).:)

Originally Posted by Wikiwide (Post 835902)

Quick reply...
I'm waiting impatiently for Point-Of-Interest.
Just like:
1. Click button;
2. Input text description;
3. Get a clickable pin at your current coordinates, which displays the text when clicked.

Useful for bus stops, benches, names of streets (Ct or St?), etc. I cannot keep them all in the head!

Originally Posted by Reeby (Post 836033)

+1 :)
4. Option to navigate to it (integration with existing POI's)

Originally Posted by ThePooBurner (Post 835629)

Updated and giving the sqlite a good work out. Some things i've noted so far:

Originally Posted by ThePooBurner (Post 835629)

1) On the initial switch it didn't import the tiles i already had into the DB. Not sure if this was just doing something wrong on my part or if that just how it is.

Originally Posted by ThePooBurner (Post 835629)

2) When downloading for a particular zoom level, it downloads according to the zoom level used in the map scaling preference. For instance, if i have it on x2 scaling and i tell it to download, it downloads the levels below, which it should but it's not clear if that is all it is getting or if it is also getting the actual zoom level you are on (assuming "0 down/up" as the batch download setting). Of course when i first fired it up i was forgetting i had the scaling on and so when it told me it needed 330,000 tiles i was a bit taken aback. 5KM around from my location at the zoom level i was "at", visually anyway, is only about 25 tiles when using the scaling. I figured out that it was downloading the actual zoom level and not the current displayed level of zoom.

Originally Posted by ThePooBurner (Post 835629)

3) When there are large numbers of tiles being downloaded, say over 400 (as i've done a couple different batch downloads), the count downloaded doesn't update until it is finished, so you have no real idea how much time might be left in the download.

4) When there are large numbers of tiles to download, and you "click to estimate size", it simply freezes the phone for about 30 minutes and then causes a hard reboot. Download sizes that have caused a reboot when estimateing, 48K, 98K, 330K, 498K tiles. I've since stopped asking for an estimate and have just gone ahead with downloads (though i jumped from 400 to 98K in my downloading. The data counter is spinning so i know it's working, but as mentioned in 3 the display in modRana isn't updating). Even with a small amount of tiles (400), the estimation took a long time to finish and hung the phone for a few minutes.

5) Large tile downloads take a lot longer to download than you would think. I get about 100KB/sec down here at work but the download (which is using almost 96-100% cpu) is only piddling along at about 12.4KB/sec. is there any way to get it to us more bandwith and finish sooner?

Originally Posted by zimon (Post 837639)

If sqlite storage is used, can it still use the file-based tiles at the same time?

Originally Posted by zimon (Post 837639)

Eventually this is maybe not needed, when mappero also uses just sqlite db. One has to just reget all the previously saved maps.

Does modrana convert the old file based maps to sqlite when the change is made in the options?

Originally Posted by craftyguy (Post 837921)

MartinK,
Are you accepting donations? I'm thrilled that someone has:

1) Finally integrated google map images into a GPS app on Maemo
2) FINALLY integrated online POI search with google maps

I would like to donate a small amount to encourage you to continue making this application even better :D