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	gnuite	2006-06-18 , 22:06
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Originally Posted by ReinhardE

I love the application very much.

Would it make sense to add an energy efficient tracking mode, one could use when hiking. BT could be activated every 5 mins or so.

And a bit OT: Is it possible in the 2006 OS to use BT with the cover closed (like WIFI)?

Bluetooth uses very little battery power - it's the display that drains the battery when using Maemo Mapper.

That said, the whole point of Maemo Mapper is for visualization. If you want a simple GPS tracker, just use rfcomm and cat to a file (which can later be converted to GPX by one of the millions of NMEA-to-GPX converters out there).

I'd suggest using GPSD, but now that I think about it, I don't know if it's ported to the 2006 OS yet. I can probably port it pretty quickly if anyone is interested. I'll have to do it eventually in order to test Maemo Mapper's GPSD support (unless someone else ports it first, of course).

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