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2006-05-22
, 05:19
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@ Bee-u-tee-ful Garden Home, Oregon
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#152
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Sounds like you need to zoom out a little more.
Perhaps the autloading algorithm should give up on map tiles that have gone off-screen?
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2006-05-22
, 06:21
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#153
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The GPX Driving Directions web service (and hence Maemo Mapper itself, which uses the web service) utilizes Google Maps and thus should work with any address that works with Google Maps. To be more specific, the web service uses maps.google.com - it may not work with maps.google.de or any other locale-specific version of Google Maps.
When the driving directions parsing code is moved from the web service into Maemo Mapper itself, you will be able to provide your own URL, meaning that you can use the .de version (or any other version) if you wish (at the risk of violating Google's copyright?).
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2006-05-22
, 10:04
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2006-05-22
, 14:26
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#155
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Actually, I've been using maemo mapper with a cell phone and bluetooth gps and my experience has been about the same: It seems to lock up after running fine for 10-20 minutes... I've managed to give it a "kick-start" by pressing the on-off button (is this the same as closing the lid?)
A few other comments:
- Downloading via cell is a problem, at least when speeds are slower than EDGE. The user interface seems to freeze while the map is loading, and at 30 miles per hour (or more) I don't think maemo mapper will ever keep up (since more and more maps need to be loaded).
This could be a problem because I'm in-between cell towers or maybe the 770 just doesn't have enough oompf to run multiple threads efficiently.
And a EDGE speeds, the display can get a little jerky when downloading (though I have no idea of the network conditions when the problem occurs) but it's still usable.
So in my limited testing, I don't think it's practical to download maps are you travel - yet. But when it works it's very cool.
- Twice I've lost my gps fix for about 40 seconds (the west hills tunnels). As I was driving, my girlfriend was watching the 770. She told me that the track suddenly jumped "way off" but after we exited the tunnel, tracking resumed as expected. Certainly a minor glitch, but I wonder if sanity checking of the gps positions returned (vs. the current speed/position) isn't warranted?
- I think the latest firmware 5.2006.13-7 has improved system stability when more than one bluetooth device is connected at the same time (or so it seems). And it seems that using wifi and bluetooth at the same time is also improved. But maemo mapper seems to kill any active connections when it starts, so I've gotten used to making sure I don't connect to T-Mobile until _after_ the application is started.
I'll report more as I keep testing.
And good news about gpsd integration for the next version - I'm getting ready to put a soekris box in my trunk (ala stompbox) and I was hoping to use the 770 as the front-end.
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2006-05-22
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2006-05-22
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2006-05-22
, 23:32
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@ Wirral, UK
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2006-05-23
, 06:45
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#159
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gnuite:
I've discovered that 'atof' function does not work well (I dont know why, my experience with Linux is limited) turning the decimals. I have made my own function to translate from string to float and it's works!!
. Mi position is correct now.
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2006-05-23
, 07:20
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@ San Jose
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#160
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Perhaps the autloading algorithm should give up on map tiles that have gone off-screen?