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".

Re: Maemo-mapper "too many links"
 

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. ;)

Re: Maemo-mapper "too many links"
 

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. ;)