Thread: [Maemo 5] Maemo Mapper
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mrt is offline mrt
2010-06-24 , 08:05
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#121
Originally Posted by gm_w View Post
The manage map dialog download whats on your screen basically. And it is really slow. If I want to download the entire US, I zoom all the way out until I can see the entire US 50 states, If I hit download everything for zoom level 6 there, it will simply crash my n900 because there will be 123,456,789 maps to be downloaded.

So basically, there is no way to predownload the maps for mappero. You must have an internet connection on the road, or you take very short trips and pre-browse the path you want to take and let mappero download it for you then.
I agree, I'm also not happy with the performance and required storage for downloading maps. It takes a lot of time to load maps and also takes a lot of storage. This is one issue, when you are using mappero.

But I like the idea of this app very much and handling and using of this app is great and there are some very nice options and opportunities that you wont get by other map-applications. For riding with my motorcycle it's one of my favorites although it's not perfect. Do you really need the entire US in level 6? I loaded the area around my hometown (about 200 km in each direction) in levels 10, 8 and 6. When I'm planning a route, I'm loading the maps around the route in 6. That works.