Thread: Maemo Mapper: GPS for the Nokia 770
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mwiktowy is offline mwiktowy
2006-05-25 , 17:20
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#190
Originally Posted by gnuite
Maemo Mapper will announce your approach to those waypoints if you visit them in order (you don't have to start at the first waypoint, though).

I could implement "announce as you approach any waypoint," but that could waste a lot of CPU if there are many waypoints. Is there a desire for this kind of "arbitrary point of interest approach announcement?"
I could see some uses for this. Automated tour guide service, geocaching ... if was easy enough to create these custom GPX waypoint files, you could even create location dependent events to remind you to pick up some milk on the way home from work when you are driving past the store :] Kind of a spacial to-do list rather than a temporal one.

I just got my GPS last night and finally got to try the full functionality of maemo-mapper out. Very nice!

I am not sure if others have mentioned these but my feedback would be:
- since I had already faked it out by putting in a 00:00:00:00:00:00 hardware address, it was a little difficult to switch to the real thing. Maybe a button in the GPS Settings to "Redetect GPS Module" might make things easier. Since I had an xterm installed and now know about hcitool, getting the BT HW Address is easy now but I was a bit stumped initially.
- it would be nice if the autocentering was not reset to "none" when the fullscreen button was pressed. I did figure out that you can cycle through the centering modes once you are fullscreen with one of the other buttons so it is a minor annoyance but I think that the setting should be preserved when switching to and from fullscreen.
- being able to adjust the centering lead without going into the settings menu. Maybe you can but I haven't figured it out. But the only way you can effectively adjust it to you liking is while you are moving and simultaneously fiddling with menu entries and driving is a bit dangerous :] Maybe a hardware key combination of the button used to switch centering modes with the zoom in/out could be used for this.
- information text overlay displaying speed/position/bearing/etc. that you can toggle on and off. I am not sure how well the message notification text box in the upper right corner deals with dynamically updated info but that might be a good spot for it.

Regardless, thanks for the great application! The GPS hardware stores should thank you too as I can see that I am not alone in maemo-mapper motivating me to buy a BT module.