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2008-01-27
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#191
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The difference between a night mode and just dimming the screen is very dramatic. It's a very useful option, and available on every other mapping program I've seen. All you need to do, really, is invert white and black. Getting rid of all that white makes a big difference, and dimming the screen way down makes everything hard to see. If you offer it, you offer it, and if you don't, you don't, since it's a free program. It would increase the usability, though.
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2008-01-27
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Originally Posted by sgosnell
Well, every other mapping program pretty much uses vector stuff.
The difference between a night mode and just dimming the screen is very dramatic. It's a very useful option, and available on every other mapping program I've seen.
Inversion is going to be quite the same thing as what the vector-based units do.
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2008-01-27
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I'm not sure of exactly how to invert raster maps, and it may not work well with some of them, but the simpler ones are visually very similar to vector maps. I'm not claiming that it would be easy, just that it would be useful.
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2008-01-28
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#194
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I have searched the Maemo Mapper help file and this forum, and I can't seem to find out how to find a route to an address in Maemo Mapper. The help file says to click Find > Route. There is no Find menu item, much less a Find > Route. I have lookec at every menu item in the application, and although I can go to an address (by digging way, way down into the menus -- and that really ought to be easier), I see no menu item anywhere for displaying a route to that address.
Am I simply overlooking it?
Am I simply overlooking it?
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2008-01-29
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Menu, Route, Download. You have to download the route while you have an internet connection, and you can then save it. To open a saved route, Menu, Route, Open. I have no idea where you're seeing Find.
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2008-01-29
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Originally Posted by sgosnell
It says in the Help file, under routes, to click Find > Route. As far as I can tell, no such menu item exists.
Menu, Route, Download. You have to download the route while you have an internet connection, and you can then save it. To open a saved route, Menu, Route, Open. I have no idea where you're seeing Find.
As for downloading a route, that does not even make sense to me. If I went somewhere often enough to need to save a route to it, I probably would not need directions. And I seriously doubt that someone out there has created "saved routes" from every possible location to every other possible location. Isn't the whole point of using a GPS is to find routes from wherever I happen to be to where I want to go, dynamically, while on the road? If I were at home with a network connection, I would just print directions from Google Maps.
Am I missing something here?
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2008-01-29
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#197
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Got a new N810 and I copied my map directory from my N800 to my N810 by plugging both into my laptop via usb. The problem is that when I access too low a zoom level from the N810, maemo-mapper crashes. Using the same map file on my N800 looking at the same place at the same zoom level, it works fine. Running mapper from the command line, it crashes with a gdbm error. I then tried scp'ing the files over to make sure the files weren't corrupted some how during the transfer but I get the same error. I've seen this on Google Streets going below zoom 5 and Google Satellite though I can't recall the zoom level. Any reason this would be happening?
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2008-01-30
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Originally Posted by gnuite
Thanks for the response-- I figured it wouldn't be very hard to invert as well. I think many people would agree that night-mode is preferable to dimming. Now that you know there's interest, would you consider implementing it?
There is no night mode, nor do I have any plans to implement it. I guess I always figured that's what the brightness setting is for. I guess it probably wouldn't be all that hard to just invert the maps....
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2008-01-30
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@bblackmoor: It's not possible to do autorouting on raster maps. MM has to have an internet connection to calculate a route. You have to get the route before you start your trip. In order to do autorouting and rerouting, vector maps are necessary, and gnuite has chosen to use raster maps. If you want autorouting and rerouting, you'll have to look elsewhere.
@gnuite: One more request. Is it possible to reverse a saved route? That would be very useful, since one of the more common things to do is get a route to someplace, and then return home. Having the ability to reverse the route without an internet connection would be very nice. I have no idea how hard this would be.
@gnuite: One more request. Is it possible to reverse a saved route? That would be very useful, since one of the more common things to do is get a route to someplace, and then return home. Having the ability to reverse the route without an internet connection would be very nice. I have no idea how hard this would be.
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2008-01-30
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Originally Posted by sgosnell
Thanks. Nokia Map/Wayfinder doesn't have these problems, so I guess I will stick with that.
@bblackmoor: It's not possible to do autorouting on raster maps. MM has to have an internet connection to calculate a route. You have to get the route before you start your trip. In order to do autorouting and rerouting, vector maps are necessary, and gnuite has chosen to use raster maps. If you want autorouting and rerouting, you'll have to look elsewhere.
