Maemo-mapper "too many links"
 

Lest we have too few maemo-mapper threads I thought I should contribute to the community. ;)

I received my GPS receiver today, and got it working.

So I went to M-m and tried to get a simple route. I left the default gnuite Source URL. I specified the GPS position for origin and a lat/long for destination about two miles away.

When I clicked "OK" to download a route I got the message "too many links".

I tried with another route, this one about 250 mi. Same response.

What's up with that?

Re: Maemo-mapper "too many links"
 

Honestly, I've never had that error before. Sounds more like it's a server error than a MM error.

Re: Maemo-mapper "too many links"
 

Blazing new trails to errordom, that's me. :confused:

Re: Maemo-mapper "too many links"
 

Geez, now you're making me want to drag out my NIT and try to reproduce your error just so I can see it myself. ^_^;;

Re: Maemo-mapper "too many links"
 

Don't bother; it looks like your suspicion was right on. I just tried again and it works, although it gave me a nonsensical result on one route.

Looking back, apparently "too many links" means "busy, try again later".

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Well, one thing I'd like, if gnuite would be ok with it, would be to put rout tracking on the tablet somehow. Even just a command line app that dumps to a file we could load would be enough.

Re: Maemo-mapper "too many links"
 

I believe we have that already.

After you've downloaded (and perhaps tweaked -- I'm not that far along yet) a route, you can save it to a file.

This would be good for making a trip you know you'll make again, but not often enough to remember all the directions.

Re: Maemo-mapper "too many links"
 

No, no, no. I'm talking about downloading his route making app so we can create our own routes offline. I know about the online route creation and saving, but I'm looking to do it offline on the tablet.

Re: Maemo-mapper "too many links"
 

I don't think gnuite has his own route making app. Your talking about the server he runs that downloads the route for you right? I believe all that is, is just a script that automates the work of..

1) going to Google Maps
2) entering the starting: and ending: destination
3) downloading the route as a .gpx file
4) find/replace all cmt references to desc references

Essentially what you can already do manually using the gmaptogpx bookmarklet. So I don't know how helpful in having it offline since we would still need a data connection the directions from Google Maps.

Though I do apologize if there's something more magical going on. ;)

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Meh, I would hope it was more than that. But if that's it, then no biggy. But that does bring up a need to write an app that does that then if one doesn't currently exist. ;)

Re: Maemo-mapper "too many links"
 

IANAP, but I suspect an application that generated usable routes would (along with its database) be more than the N800 could handle.

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Nah, I doubt that. The 780 I have uses a Samsung processor @300-400 mHz and it does routes on the fly. The NITs use a superior 400mhz ARM chip, so I see no reason why a NIT couldn't do the same thing.

Re: Maemo-mapper "too many links"
 

Silly. The reason maemo mapper cannot do routes is that it doesn't know where the roads are. The maps are just tiled bitmaps.
It would have to do image recognition to build a database of road locations and place names. Fun, eh?
My Symbian phone can calculate routes easily, with a much weaker CPU.

Re: Maemo-mapper "too many links"
 

Well, alignment and parsing wouldn't be all that hard. All that the other map programs with raster images do is look at where you are, where you're going, and then look at each image within the database between those two points, look for roads by identifying patterns within the tiles, and then plot the route accordingly.