Ok, here's what I've figured out. I'm willing to do the work on a perl or php script that downloads and converts all of the map pieces so that they can be used on the maemo mapper, but downloaded and processed on a PC, which is much faster. The problem is, I don't know the first thing about the API at all. I don't know what the formating of the database is or how it's structured, or a lot of things about how all that works based on gps data.

I have however, figured out this much. Take the Virtual Earth url's for example. GPS data is converted from the GPS id, to a small 10 digit number formatted like this: xxxxx-xxxxx

We enter the base url into maemo mapper like this:

http://r0.ortho.tiles.virtualearth.n.../r%0s.jpg?g=45

And when Maemo Mapper grabs one of the map images, it converts the above information into something like this:

http://r0.ortho.tiles.virtualearth.n...03020.jpg?g=45

So, somewhere along the line item A is converted into item B. I'd love to get ahold of the developer for Maemo Mapper, but I couldn't find an address for him. If it were possible to contact him, I might be able to figure out how the database is written out, and if I could do that, then I could possibly develop a script myself. So I'm not against doing the work myself, I just have no clue what I'm doing (API wise anyways) in order to achieve the end result, and I want to be sure nobody else has already done the work.

If someone's willing to help me somehow, I will even try to write downloaders for all the other repositories if possible as thanks.