Notices

How about checking on startup if MMC is present? Then for the initial startup let user choose location of the maps in a short wizard (that also asks for the url querystring for *eh* google maps or ANY alternative).

This week sometime? later today?

I knew someone was going to call me out on this. I have an excuse though: I spent the weekend knocking off many of the items on my TODO list. Check out the new Features List on the Maemo Mapper website. Notable additions:

* New map download functionalities: download by route and download by area.
* Waypoint announcement (including voice synthesis)
* Integration with the GPX Driving Directions web service (including on-the-fly, auto-updating "from my current location" directions generation).
* Support for manually enabling/disabling the GPS Receiver connection.
* Support for GPS Exchange (GPX) format.

I am currently testing all of the new changes and hope to have the official release of Maemo Mapper 0.1 by Wednseday.

Does the voice synthesis thing mean like the application will tell you turn left in 300 feet or turn right on the next street light as you go for your waypoints? That would be a very cool feature that the expensive GPS Devices like Magellen and TomTom and stuff have.

It doesn't yet use units like "turn left in 300 feet." Instead, it would say something like, "Turn left at Graphite Street." You can use the map itself to get a visual indication of how far away the turn actually is. I use the feature more as a reminder (in case I fall asleep at the wheel ).

You will need flite installed, which you can get from my Nokia 770 page by downloading and installing the flite deb. Nothing will break if you don't have it installed - it just won't talk to you as you drive.