Hello,

recently I finished maemo mapper patch which supports layers displayed on top of base map. Initially this planned to display transparent google traffic tiles on top of google street or google satellite map, but implementation is quite generic (any amount of layers which can be turned on and off), so you can find other usages.

You can download deb here. It was tested on n810 and n800 under chinook and diablo.

To display google traffic, you need to add layer (In dialog Maps->Manage repositories press 'Layers' button) with URL http://mt0.google.com/mapstt?zoom=%0d&x=%d&y=%d

Layer's tiles have autorefresh feature which will track age (in minutes) of each layer's tile and redownload tile when age is expired (As traffic tiles are very small, gprs is enougth). To turn automatic tile fetching on, set layer's attribute to value greater than zero.

There is also new action 'Toggle layers' which can be bind to tablet hardware key. It toggles visible layers on and off, to see original underlying map.

You can download patch here.

Source tarball.

2gnuite: There are at least two feature requests which can be closed by this patch (921 and 2354), can it be imported in official sources?