Thread: Maemo Mapper v0.2 Released
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mgedmin is offline mgedmin
2006-05-26 , 20:42
Posts: 31 | Thanked: 2 times | Joined on Apr 2006 @ Vilnius, Lithuania
#17
Originally Posted by gnuite
The only reason we didn't see the error message before is because I didn't do any error checking before. Maybe I should revert to that behavior and hope for the best?
I think it would be better to keep it.

I spent a day trying to figure out why my GPS stopped working in Maemo Mapper. It turned out that gpsd had silently switched it from NMEA into some binary protocol that Maemo Mapper doesn't understand. Since I don't have Windows to run the settings app that came with my GPS, I had to find the protocol description and write a Python script to switch it back into NMEA mode. Full story here: http://mg.pov.lt/blog/maemo-mapper.html