Hi Guys
I fall into the category of elder person who is a technophile, I love gadgets, maps and GPS gizmos. I envy all you lucky people out there who have Maemo Mapper up and running because I am struggling. Initially I was unable to point the Application Manager to the Maemo Extras repository because it wouldn't refresh the list with that link made. Remove the link and it is fine. I installed GPE as recommended by gnuite to obtain SqlLite. I downloaded Mapper 1.2.4 files and installed the application via File Manager and Application Manager.

Opening Mapper, with a blank black screen, I rummaged around the menus and set the map repository to my 1GB MMC and the URI to www.maps.google.co.uk/maps. Opening UK GoogleMaps I navigated to my home area of Hull in the north of England and enabled autodownload maps. I found folders in my map repository named "15" "16" etc but nothing displayed on the Mapper screen. I found .jpg files in some of the folders but was unable to open them with the 770 or my PC.

I contacted gnuite directly and he explained some of the requirements for maps and pointed me to /www.avraam.org/winmapper which on the face of it would solve my problem. This produced folders like CDQRG5QJ containing files like mt[1 to whatever number].png on my PC. These files opened to show neat map tiles of Hull. Great says I and transferred then to my map repository to no avail.

I see from the forum that I am not alone with having problems and hope that someone will be able to set me on the right track.


Success

At last I have joined the ranks of Mapper Fans, it's working fine.

I uninstalled Mapper which I had upgraded and upgraded then installed the latest version 1.3.5. I set the URI to one identified by the trick of right clicking on the white space in Google Maps, as recommended. Using the identified URI with w=2.29 and x,y and zoom set to %d I was confronted with a "Downloading Maps" message and then a screen full of a map of the world. Zoomimg around and playing with the map settings got me down to street level almost anywhere in the civilized world and in reasonable quality to some of the minor South Atlantic islands.

Thanks for all the info you guys have published on these forums