Thread: Maemo Mapper v1.0 for the 2006 OS
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pdq is offline pdq
2006-06-20 , 19:31
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Originally Posted by gnuite
For those of you who kept getting "Error Parsing GPX File" errors, please try again and let me know if you still get the error. If you do get the error, please PM me an example of Source and Destination addresses that give you the error.

Note: I have not been able to test any directions that contained Unicode characters that are not also in the ISO-8859-1 character set, mostly because I couldn't even find any Google Maps directions that included non-ISO-8859-1 characters. If you can find an example of a Source and Destination that result in directions with non-ISO-8859-1 characters, please PM them to me. Thanks!
I've tried a couple german ones and they all worked. Thanks for fixing this. You can get a file with non-ISO-8859-1 by demanding a route somewhere in Europe where the street names contain umlauts and such. For example, try from "berlin-steglitz germany" to "berlin-wannsee germany", it contains a lot of ß and one ö.

There is still that cosmetic bug where it turns "Abc Straße" into "Abc Stravenueße" i.e. incorrectly expanding the a to avenue (which it does not when its written in one word like in "Abcstraße".

Btw. I also discovered a bookmarklet to generate a gpx file at:
http://www.elsewhere.org/journal/gmaptogpx
Unfortunately the format is not quite compatible with maemo-mapper but I assume this could be fixed easily enough by modifying the java script.

Regards,
Reiner