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2006-06-17
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#41
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Originally Posted by mapa
Can you post or PM to me an example GPX file that cannot be imported?
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2006-06-18
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#42
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I love the application very much.
Would it make sense to add an energy efficient tracking mode, one could use when hiking. BT could be activated every 5 mins or so.
And a bit OT: Is it possible in the 2006 OS to use BT with the cover closed (like WIFI)?
Would it make sense to add an energy efficient tracking mode, one could use when hiking. BT could be activated every 5 mins or so.
And a bit OT: Is it possible in the 2006 OS to use BT with the cover closed (like WIFI)?
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2006-06-18
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#43
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Originally Posted by ReinhardE
Bluetooth uses very little battery power - it's the display that drains the battery when using Maemo Mapper.I love the application very much.
Would it make sense to add an energy efficient tracking mode, one could use when hiking. BT could be activated every 5 mins or so.
And a bit OT: Is it possible in the 2006 OS to use BT with the cover closed (like WIFI)?
That said, the whole point of Maemo Mapper is for visualization. If you want a simple GPS tracker, just use rfcomm and cat to a file (which can later be converted to GPX by one of the millions of NMEA-to-GPX converters out there).
I'd suggest using GPSD, but now that I think about it, I don't know if it's ported to the 2006 OS yet. I can probably port it pretty quickly if anyone is interested. I'll have to do it eventually in order to test Maemo Mapper's GPSD support (unless someone else ports it first, of course).
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2006-06-18
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#44
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I've (finally) updated the GPX Driving Directions Web Service to output real UTF-8, so it should now work with Maemo Mapper for directions that include non-ascii characters. This also affects Maemo Mapper's internal Driving Directions downloading.
For those of you who kept getting "Error Parsing GPX File" errors, please try again and let me know if you still get the error. If you do get the error, please PM me an example of Source and Destination addresses that give you the error.
Thanks, and I apologize that it took so long to bring the web service into the twenty-first century.
Note: I have not been able to test any directions that contained Unicode characters that are not also in the ISO-8859-1 character set, mostly because I couldn't even find any Google Maps directions that included non-ISO-8859-1 characters. If you can find an example of a Source and Destination that result in directions with non-ISO-8859-1 characters, please PM them to me. Thanks!
For those of you who kept getting "Error Parsing GPX File" errors, please try again and let me know if you still get the error. If you do get the error, please PM me an example of Source and Destination addresses that give you the error.
Thanks, and I apologize that it took so long to bring the web service into the twenty-first century.
Note: I have not been able to test any directions that contained Unicode characters that are not also in the ISO-8859-1 character set, mostly because I couldn't even find any Google Maps directions that included non-ISO-8859-1 characters. If you can find an example of a Source and Destination that result in directions with non-ISO-8859-1 characters, please PM them to me. Thanks!
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2006-06-19
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#45
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Originally Posted by gnuite
Thanks for the hint! gpxd together with gpxbabel (overkill?) work perfectly.
That said, the whole point of Maemo Mapper is for visualization. If you want a simple GPS tracker, just use rfcomm and cat to a file (which can later be converted to GPX by one of the millions of NMEA-to-GPX converters out there).
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2006-06-19
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@ La Rochelle, France
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#46
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Very good !
I was able to download a fully functionnal GPX from you website & directly from Maemo (places include France & Ireland so plenty of accented letters !!!)
Thanks
Fred
I was able to download a fully functionnal GPX from you website & directly from Maemo (places include France & Ireland so plenty of accented letters !!!)
Thanks
Fred
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2006-06-19
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#47
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I have made a mockup of my suggestion for the look of maemo-mapper.
A toolbar would help ease the GUI navigation. I have attached a image.
From the left.
The first two globes represents the map view, street and satellite.
Maybe the globes should be replaced by a dropdown menu, depends on how Gnuite solves the multiple map sources issue.
The third icon is also a view, not a map view but a view over the satellites with signal strength, speed, heading, height etc.
The 4:th icon brings up a dialog to choose what information should be shown on top of the two mapviews. (speed, position, heading)
The 5:th is a measuring tool polygon train style...
The 6:th is the route downloader.
The 7:th is a marker for points of interest.
No 8 Sound on/off (the chim when approching a waypoint)
No 9 help
No 10 Settings dialog.
Just a few suggestions.
Of course there should be a toggle switch in the menu to hide/show the toolbar.
A toolbar would help ease the GUI navigation. I have attached a image.
From the left.
The first two globes represents the map view, street and satellite.
Maybe the globes should be replaced by a dropdown menu, depends on how Gnuite solves the multiple map sources issue.
The third icon is also a view, not a map view but a view over the satellites with signal strength, speed, heading, height etc.
The 4:th icon brings up a dialog to choose what information should be shown on top of the two mapviews. (speed, position, heading)
The 5:th is a measuring tool polygon train style...
The 6:th is the route downloader.
The 7:th is a marker for points of interest.
No 8 Sound on/off (the chim when approching a waypoint)
No 9 help
No 10 Settings dialog.
Just a few suggestions.
Of course there should be a toggle switch in the menu to hide/show the toolbar.
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2006-06-19
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#48
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Also an "Error parsing gpx file." on Downloading route outside the USA. ?
i.e.
Route from Frankfurt to Frankfurt works.
Route from Berlin to Berlin works.
Route from Frankfurt to Berlin -> Error parsing...
I found some MTB tours on http://www.gps-tour.info. They are working well... love this software !!
i.e.
Route from Frankfurt to Frankfurt works.
Route from Berlin to Berlin works.
Route from Frankfurt to Berlin -> Error parsing...
I found some MTB tours on http://www.gps-tour.info. They are working well... love this software !!
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2006-06-20
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#49
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Originally Posted by gnuite
I've tried a couple german ones and they all worked. Thanks for fixing this. You can get a file with non-ISO-8859-1 by demanding a route somewhere in Europe where the street names contain umlauts and such. For example, try from "berlin-steglitz germany" to "berlin-wannsee germany", it contains a lot of ß and one ö.For those of you who kept getting "Error Parsing GPX File" errors, please try again and let me know if you still get the error. If you do get the error, please PM me an example of Source and Destination addresses that give you the error.
Note: I have not been able to test any directions that contained Unicode characters that are not also in the ISO-8859-1 character set, mostly because I couldn't even find any Google Maps directions that included non-ISO-8859-1 characters. If you can find an example of a Source and Destination that result in directions with non-ISO-8859-1 characters, please PM them to me. Thanks!
There is still that cosmetic bug where it turns "Abc Straße" into "Abc Stravenueße" i.e. incorrectly expanding the a to avenue (which it does not when its written in one word like in "Abcstraße".
Btw. I also discovered a bookmarklet to generate a gpx file at:
http://www.elsewhere.org/journal/gmaptogpx
Unfortunately the format is not quite compatible with maemo-mapper but I assume this could be fixed easily enough by modifying the java script.
Regards,
Reiner
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2006-06-20
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#50
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Originally Posted by pdq
Well, my reference example that I used for testing was "Berlin, Germany" to "Paris, France", which contained those kinds of characters and worked fine in my testing, so I'm not worried about those characters.I've tried a couple german ones and they all worked. Thanks for fixing this. You can get a file with non-ISO-8859-1 by demanding a route somewhere in Europe where the street names contain umlauts and such. For example, try from "berlin-steglitz germany" to "berlin-wannsee germany", it contains a lot of ß and one ö.
Those characters (and pretty much all characters used by western Europe) are in ISO-8859-1, as indicated by this website. It's cyrillic or greek characters (for example) that are not in ISO-8859-1, and I haven't found any google maps directions that work in regions that use those characters. I'm not even sure Google Maps's directions support non-ISO-8859-1 characters, since its HTML documents are returned with "charset=ISO-8859-1".
The maps themselves (the graphics) contain non-ISO-8859-1 characters (just look at Japan, for example), but I can't seem to make any directions in Japan, or Greece, or anywhere else that doesn't use ISO-8859-1, so there isn't actually any non-ISO-8859-1 text.
