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Originally Posted by peramikic

What happens is that you see a previous zoom level image. The image for the current zomm is corrupted. The file exists but the image is corrupted(might not even be an image). Maemo check for the file name and find the file there so it doesn't download, but cant load image over the previous square, so it doesen't get refreshed. You have to (as you noticed) delete that corrupted file so it will get downloaded. It is a game of hide and seek, but if you move them to windows folder, but if you dump the map cache into lets say picasa, you can see which pictures are not coming up, can't be displayed, and delete those from you cache, after that they will get downloaded again.

one could also write a script to run an "image info" function on the images and detect/delete the corrupted ones.

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Originally Posted by gnuite

Thanks for your feedback. I haven't yet figured out why non-ASCII characters cause parsing errors - the XML parsing code should be able to handle arbitrary UTF-8, although I haven't tested this fully. I will attempt to address all of these kinds of issues as I introduce localization into the codeline.

Feel free to investigate the error yourself and submit a patch if you need a fix faster than I can provide one.

I apologize for the inconvenience.

Sorry, I didn't mean to complain. I've myself written a moving map application for the Zaurus a couple of years ago and am severly humbled by the perfromance of your app (at 0.1 version even) compared to what my program ever did. I already did ponder the idea of looking at the problem myself but need to install a tool chain first.

Regards,
Reiner

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Originally Posted by gnuite

An observation which may help:
It seems to me that the server (gpx driving instructions) returns a page which is encoded in ISO-8859-1 rather than utf-8. I saved the page, converted it to utf-8 on my desktop (using iconv -f 8859_1 -t UTF-8) and loaded the converted page in maemo-mapper without error :) .

Another, more cosmetic problem: where one would expect the word "straße" (german for street) in the description, the server returns "Stravenueße" instead. Strangely enough this doesn't happen if "straße" occurs together in one word with its name (e.g. "foostraße" is returned correctly while "foo straße" is not).

Regards,
Reiner

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Originally Posted by gnuite

Sorry for the rant; just had to get that off my chest. I appreciate all of your suggestions, I really do. I just want to prepare you in case your suggestion doesn't actually make it into Maemo Mapper. You can always add your particular suggestion on your own, as Armin has done. That's what open source is for. And someday, the subversion repo will be open enough that you guys can go crazy.

I am actually not surprised that you are feeling a bit burned out. The releases have been coming fast and furious ... much more frequent than any other project that I have seen and much more frequent than anyone could possible expect. I know for my part, any feedback given was simply a suggestion from a non-coder ... I have no rights to make any demands, I am quite happy with what exists and I appreaciate the effort that you (and others) have put in to make my 770 much more useful.

The best thing would be to put it in the maemo garage and interested devs collabourate on it to refine it rather than everyone spinning off their own version of it with their particular pet feature (as is currently the case for a few 770 apps in the wild now ... I still have not found the version of flite that actually has the flite command line app in it rather than flite-test). I guess that is the whole point of maemo garage though.

I hope that the development gets sheparded in some way though. The goal of mapper being lean and mean is worthy and is what separates it from gpsdrive and keeping it that way will require some tough decisions by some sort of leadership.

In any case, your app really highlights the spectacular utility of the 770. Thanks.

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Originally Posted by mwiktowy

I still have not found the version of flite that actually has the flite command line app in it rather than flite-test.

http://gnuite.com:8080/nokia770/flit...ease-1_arm.deb

Regards,
Reiner

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Originally Posted by gnuite

I am also among those very greatful users of the meamo mapper application and very much appriciate all the efforts you have put taking the project as far as you have and making it available to all of us. Since I have installed this application, I have been using my 770 10 times more frequently (I am actually carring it with me everywhere now). So, thank you again for the great work.

I hope you haven't been discouraged to continue your efforts with meamo mapper. I was actually talking to few of my friends to see if I can raise enough money to buy a GPS receiver of your choice and donate it to you. I'll see how that goes. If not, I will just make a donation straigh up at your site.

Thanks again.

I keep looking for a program to generate a GPX route for Maemo-mapper using user-defined waypoints and I found something interesting with Google.

The site below is a nice attempt to use Google maps combined with waypoints. It does not generate a smooth route following the roads though. Some kind of combination with gnuite's GPX Driving Directions web service would be great.

http://www.marengo-ltd.com/map/

I have to say I am impressed!

Fantastic job. Donation on its way.

Went for a bike ride yesterday. Took 770 and GPS with, running the maemo-mapper that I patched to open and read from /dev/rfcomm0. Worked great! I didn't trust the weather, so I stuck them both into a waterproof box I had purchased for that purpose. http://blog.russnelson.com/770/waterproof-770-gps.html

I agree with the other fellow who asked to have the timestamp added to the GPX file. Without timestamps, you can't georeference anything. Also would be nice to have an "Autosave" feature for the current track. Bad things can happen to good people ... like running out of battery, or running out of ram and having your process crash.