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Hi there, i´ve been searching the entire web for help with this issue i have with maemo mapper, although i haven´t found anything.

So, there´s probably a thread that i haven´t found with the information i need, but since i haven´t found maybe some one could indicate it for me.

Anyway, i looked into the repositories thread, and a lot of others threads including outside information and i still can´t manage to get maemo mapper working on my n810.

I tried to download automatically the repositories, from the n810, but it just keeps giving me fail notices. I tried downloading them from threads or websites but it has been in vain.

So, i´m gonna travel after x-mas and i would like it very much if i could get this darn thing to work till then.

If anyone could help me make this work i would very much appreciate it.

By the way, when i start maemo mapper it just gives me a black screen, i am connected on the internet and on the gps, but it just gives me a black screen and a fail to download repositories.

well, thanks in advance!!

Christian.

Black screen is because there are no tiles.

Do you have enough disk space?

I just installed MM on my N900, went to the menu: Maps > Download Sample Repositories and it works for me.

Can you download anything at all from your N810? Is this a generic network problem?

If you haven't used Fragos' tutorial, you ought to start there.

There's also a thread about it (which would have been a good place to have put your post, rather than starting a new thread).

Good luck!

Yes, i am able to download to my n810. tried to install maemo mapper again to see if the problem was an old version or something like that but nothing.

Anyway, i am sorry if i posted something that is already on the forum, but like i told you i looked everywhere for help and couldn´t find, i looked into the tutorial above and everything that he tells me to do i´ve done and still nothing, found another thread from the maemo moderator with the repositories downloads, but i think i couldn´t download them or something like that.

So, my problem is, from my point of view, i´ve done everything to make it work, and it still doesn´t work.

If anyone can give me a light on where the problem is, i still thank you all!!!

You know, you don't really "download" the repositories. You put in proper addresses in maemo-mapper's settings. Whatever you're doing, try it with respect to maps from a non-Google repository. I'd start from scratch and follow Fragos step-by-step. I would ignore GPS until you have SOME map showing. Make your first download very modest, just very large scale, continent-size.

OK, do this:

Zoom out until you are at Zoom level 18 (it doesn't matter that you see nothing but black, it should still show zoom level when you change levels). Go to Menu >> Maps and click Yahoo Satellite, so it has a dot next to it.

Next go to Maps >> Manage Maps ... Under Setup tab, you should have selected Download Maps and By Area

(I'm assuming you have a wifi connection active.)

In Zoom tab, check off only 18, 19, and 20. Click OK.

You still don't see anything?

Yeah, now i can see the map, appeared right away for me.
I was trying with google, could that have been the problem ??
Should i just work with yahoo maps now ??

Well, now you can experiment. It might be that you were starting too zoomed in. People have trouble with the Google repositories. Start with Yahoo and once you have the hang of it all, give Google a try again.

Google repos are notoriously unreliable, they will, for example, shut you off for a while after just a modest amount of downloads. Then they keep changing the working URLs and then nothing will work. It's easier to stay on the other maps (e.g. OpenStreet maps), particularly when you're just starting (later you can follow the 'maemo mapper repositories' thread).

Thank you!! you really helped, but again, i went to download the maps by area like you said, and it gives me a fail notice, yes, i am connected to the internet !!

You have any thoughts on that ???