Awesome.

I think the idea was more to make a "jump to zoomlevel" setting. I know often I want to zoom-out to see the full path (say level 9), and then zoom back to the level I use while moving (level 16). Right now, I need to hit +/- 7 times, and it tries to load those tiles as I'm zooming, which I won't ever want to see. And turning off auto-download isn't a good solution, since I want that on most times to update areas I haven't been through before.

Maybe a screen widget can do this? Can the widgets do things like "jump to zoom level 16"? If so, I could make one for 9, and one for 16, and just jump between them.

Another issue: The reason I need to zoom back is because there's no way I've found to jump to the destination on a route. When using address lookup, I like to verify that the target looks sane, since I've seen Google return bad results at times when it doesn't quite know where something is. (eg. Putting you in the middle of a town when it can't find a street.) Being able to jump to a turn or the destination would be a nice feature.

That would be great. Also, saving routes is currently broken. When you go to save, it says "loaded in XXms", but doesn't give you the option to give it a name, and thus save it as a route. It does auto-save it with a time-stamp name, but with no way to rename it, it's not so useful.


Mappero stops drawing when the screen is off (may be worth a look to see how they do it). He also has a bit of code to keep the display on if the device is in motion. Handy if you're doing a short trip and don't have the device plugged in to a charger.

Ah... right. Forgot that. Hopefully they'll be able to use the same backend. For now, I've found I've been using modRana much more than the others. But then I already have 2 copies of maps (1 for Nokia, 1 for the rest)... so really, whats 1 more?

Thanks again for this awesome app!