Thread: [Announce] ZapLoc - a Gowalla/Foursquare/Facebook places/Latitude aggregator - "All your location based services are belong to us" ;)
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2011-06-08 , 18:58
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Originally Posted by MasterZap View Post
Yeah, but these are not many bits... surely if you have an N900 you are on a data plan
Yes and no. Not all countries have "all you can eat" plans, so trimming usage is not a bad thing. But you're right in saying this probably won't break the bank. Allowing it to be turned off may be nice though.

Originally Posted by MasterZap View Post
It's actually quite clever, and I will try to support that in a next version.
Happy! The Wifi check-in part has been working quite well, just FYI.

Originally Posted by MasterZap View Post
there was once a bug in that I had - by pure accident - put code that actually did work inside the verbose printout section,
I've seen that often enough to avoid doing that in code I make. I always make the debug info, and use macros to do the dirty work of logging it. When debugging, the only delta is that a file is opened vs not, and that only happens in the macro-coded area. That prevents code from not getting called when debugging vs not most times.


Originally Posted by MasterZap View Post
It is actually based on what the Maemo "conic" library considers the "id" of the connection. ... So I personally do not know if this id is per-basestation-unique or not; tests on this would be quite helpful.
I have at least 3 Paneras between home and my summer retreat, all with wifi with the same SSID. I'll check on the way there Friday to see what it says if someone doesn't beat me to it. On the way back I'll have it registered to connect to see if that makes a difference?

Originally Posted by MasterZap View Post
I do already cache the tiles, and I share the format (basically directory structure under /home/user/MyDocs/.maps/) EDIT: It seems to be the same, so this is already in. Yay.
Yes and no. In tile mode they do all share. ModRana has a faster method using sqlite to store the tiles in one large file (or sets of large files). They take far less space on the device that way, and are just as quick as file access (faster in some cases). Guess which one I have my ModRana set to...

I may have to switch back to tiles to cache the local area. I may also need to watch what zoom level I'm on, since that may be different between navigating and four-squaring.

If you get ambitious, MartinK does document the format of the table he uses in sqlite to store the tiles. It's rather simple to access, from what I've read. But frankly for the limited area I use ZapLoc in, I can do two sets of tiles.

Originally Posted by MasterZap View Post
Interesting. Not sure why it would do that... perhaps a bug in the location subsystem, not liking to be turned off at some certain "point" in it's startup, or something?
Wouldn't surprise me one bit. The GPS subsystem was clearly not as polished as the rest of the system when in launched, since "A-GPS" wasn't even seeding a rough-guess location to start from in PR 1.0. It's also one of the least used features, right next to the motion detection gizmo in priority. Still, better than the FreeRunner.

Originally Posted by MasterZap View Post
Thank you sir.

It all started as a toy for myself, and learning som oauth coding, and learning some heavier Python coding..... well frankly, it all started with me trying to teach my kid programming, and beginning work on a game.... (which you guys may see the results of some day... maybe...)
Thank you! And if the game is half as good as this app, I'm sure it will be quite popular. I'll let you know when I have results from the wifi stuff, probably Monday, unless someone beats me to it. Thanks again!