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Posts: 21 | Thanked: 16 times | Joined on May 2006 @ Finland
#92
Hm. Nice progress and co-operation starting to grow here

I have two suggestions. First, to get maemo-mapper pop up the networking dialog when it needs a connection to internet (and there is none currently) - one needs to ld_preload the osso connectivity library. So basically, this should work (/var/lib/install/usr/bin/maemo-mapper.sh or something like that)

#!/bin/sh

case `uname -m` in
arm*) export LD_PRELOAD=/usr/lib/libosso-ic-preload.so;;
*) ;;
esac

/var/lib/install/usr/bin/maemo-mapper
..installing this alongside the binary, and making the .desktop file run this script instead of the binary directly should do the trick. This was taken from the "porting howto" from maemo.org.

The other suggestion/idea is, that it would be nice, if one could either mark locations (maybe load google earth files - http://earth.google.com/kml/kml_intro.html) so that, for example, for the GUADEC conference, we could mark locations on the map, it would be great for sightseeing too. Maybe even integrate this with placeopedia.com ?

But anyway, the locations could be great, unfortunately I cannot code this myself, but I'll try to help if there is something else I can do?

Another yet suggestions is that it would be nice, if I could, in the "Download route" -dialog, have something like this:

.--- Download Route -------- -- -
|
| Origin: [_________________] [ map ]
| Destn: [_________________] [ map ]
|
`------------------------------ -- -
I'll need to think this a bit further since its very easy to make this a bit more complex than the task really is, but what I have in mind is "click map for source, click map for destination" - it could even give instructions with the banners..

This probably would need a toolbar though so that it tracks the click and once you have something you like, press "OK" in the toolbar to move the coords to the dialog again. Otherwise you couldnt pan it at all.

//Tuomas

Last edited by tigert; 2006-05-15 at 09:01.