Thread: [Announce] modRana: a flexible GPS navigation system
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2013-03-26 , 12:28
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Originally Posted by skanky View Post
That would be very nice, but even more so offline as when I use OS it tends to be in poor signal areas. The thing is, Bing license the maps from the OS and probably pay a hefty fee, as well as having to restrict their use. I did try and see if it was possible to download the tiles offline, but I messed up the url and got ve tiles. I might try again at some point, but am not optimistic.

As for online, can't help there, unfortunately, but watching Bing maps when using them, they do have multiple servers that they seem to round-robin access - ecn.t0...ecn.t1....ecn.t2...ecn.t3....ecn.t4...
Yes it is entirely possible to get the OS map tiles.

I convinced Dwarzdyn to include quad-tree map sources in cloudgps so I could use OS maps. Unfortunatley, Dwardz has moved onto other things so cloudgps has become abandonware, which is a real shame because it was *nice*.

I then started using marble maps and wrote the UKOS map profile for it, it worked quite well but now marble maps has ceased development on the n900. *sigh*.

So AFAIK the last, currently developed map program for the n900 is Modrana. If all the other map programs can grab the map tiles, so can Modrana.

There are 4 servers numbered t1 to t4. You can just use one if you wish but I guess download speed will suffer. I never noticed a problem on cloudgps. If you do not supply the magic string at the end you just get bing satellite images. So the question is, how do I specify a parameter to be added to the end of the URL?

Code:
ecn.t1.tiles.virtualearth.net/tiles/r/<quadindex>.png&g=41&productSet=mmOS
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