Yeah, I'm going to provide better support in version 0.2 for using Maemo Mapper without a GPS Receiver. Sorry for the inconvenience.

Hm. I actually meant for those numbers to be selectable, so that you could use copy/paste, although I never tested it because I mostly envisioned them as only being used for general reference (around which you would choose bracketing values). I'll make them copy/pastable at least, though.

I can do this, and since you mentioned it, I probably will, although I have to admit I don't see much utility in it. Why download the same area twice?

I'll tell you how _I_ would use the "Download Area" functionality. Use Google Earth to get the lat/lons of an area around you that you want at highest detail (zoom=0). Aim for maybe 10% of your total allocated map space (yeah, I know, it's hard to estimate now, but I'll try to add some better feedback in version 0.2). Download that area.

Then use Google Earth to get the lat/lons of a larger area around you and download that at a higher zoom level (I would skip every other zoom level, to save space, but you don't have to). Repeat the process until you're downloading the whole world (90, -180 to -90, 180) at a relatively-high zoom level, like 10 or 11, and include all the higher zoom levels if you want to show off that "I can zoom out to see the whole world!" effect to your friends.

Doing this gives you the area around you at high detail, for when you're going to parties or gatherings or whatnot, and whenever you travel outside your home area, you still have at least enough level of detail that you could use highways to get around to major cities. Depending on how much space you allocate for your maps, the detail you have outside of your home area will vary.

Of course, everyone should tune their repositories to suit their own needs. Unless, of course, you're one of [em]those[/em] people, who have a cell-phone with data service, and you can just use "Auto-Download" all the time (I'm jealous, can you tell? ).

Another alternative is to slowly build your map repository by downloading maps "by Route" whenever you need to get somewhere. Going to a party? Download the route, download maps along the route at various zoom levels, and you're good to go for the party. Eventually, you'll map the whole world! (Consider it an incentive to travel. )

Unfortunately, my ISP blocks port 80 outgoing, so I can't help that without getting a relatively-expensive port redirector service. Sorry.

But soon there will be hope! For version 0.2 I hope to bypass the GPX Driving Directions page entirely, cutting out the middle man, after which point you would only need to use port-80-touting servers to access driving directions. I could have done it for version 0.1, but the demand for a release meant I had to stop writing new features eventually.