Thread: Maemo Mapper v2.4 adds support for Yahoo Maps
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2008-03-11 , 15:12
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Originally Posted by fms View Post
Few more comments, while we are at it:
* For some reason, position jumps a lot (by as much as 70 meters). Don't know why. I am using the internal GPS and it is inside a building, so that may be a problem.
This is almost definitely caused by poor GPS reception. The internal GPS receiver on the N810, in my experience, is not very sensitive. In my area of the world, even standing outside, the GPS fix is not very accurate. The internal GPS is almost useless to me.

Originally Posted by fms View Post
* Why are there no combined (sat+street) Google maps on the menu? Is there something special about them?
Yes. Google implements their "hybrid" maps as two separate sets of PNGs, the road PNGs drawn on top of the satellite PNGs. Maemo Mapper does not (yet) have support for drawing two map repositories at once. Yahoo's hybrid maps do the same. Virtual Earth's hybrid maps use a single PNG for hybrid maps.

Originally Posted by fms View Post
* Is it possible to have a quick on-screen button that centers the map on the current GPS position and two more on-screen buttons for the zoom (the hardware ones are somewhat hard to use in certain positions).
I have to this point shied away from on-screen buttons in favor of a cleaner interface, but I'm willing to entertain the idea of an optional toolbar. If I can dock it to the side instead of the bottom, and if I can find some reasonably usable, free icons, I'll try to add one in a future release.

Originally Posted by fms View Post
* Can I circle an area on the map with the stylus and have the map instantly zoom to this area? (would require capturing stylus trajectory and computing its extent when it crosses on itself)
Stylus tap-and-drag is already mapped to the pan operation. I guess I could either change that behavior to draw-extent-and-zoom-pan, or make it optional. It won't be high on my priority list, though....