Thread: Maemo Mapper v2.2 for OS2006/OS2007/OS2008
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2008-01-30 , 20:07
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Originally Posted by sgosnell View Post
It depends on how the route is actually stored. If it's just a list of waypoints, reversing that shouldn't be too hard. But I don't actually know how the route is stored, so I can't say if it's possible - that's why I asked.
Well, it would be trivial for Maemo Mapper to just reverse the route points, but if I did that, the route itself (the green lines) would look the exact same anyway, all the waypoint descriptions would be wrong ("turn left" instead of "turn right"), and it would lead you onto the wrong way on one-way streets. The only added advantage over just following at the same route backward would be the ability to calculate distance to the next waypoint.

What I can do, though, is add a button in the "Download Route" dialog to quickly swap the source and destination. Then, you could just run the "Download Route" dialog twice to get both routes.

Originally Posted by sgosnell View Post
Another annoyance I've found is that if you tell it to download a route, it does that full time, and it's not possible to cancel it. I accidentally tapped in slightly the wrong place this morning, and it has been downloading a route for over an hour - a route I had already downloaded anyway. It just freezes, and won't do anything else until the download is complete, and it's not possible to cancel. Having it check for other input would be very useful.
I guess I didn't expect the route download to take long enough to thread it off, but that's a poor assumption to make on a device that could be using a cell phone data plan's poor bandwidth. I'll try to add a cancel button.