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BINGO

the tiles it downloaded are in fact not valid png files, they contain HTML which states the download was rejected by Google.

Moving on to OSM then...

So its finally solved! Hmm, I'll add mime checking for the downloaded tiles.

I'm betting this was the issue I was getting as well Martin, with the sqlite tiles reporting back failed. Never occurred to me to move to another server? :P

You are right, that would be it! I think there were also also quite a few other reports that could be summed as downloaded tiles not showing up...



Well, quite an enigma to be finally solved - big thanks to everyone for providing feedback !

I've implemented mime checking of the tiles before saving them - this should get rid of all HTML tiles in the future.

I'm also working on retry support for failed tile downloads.

Confirmed... Using Yahoo and batch download is working fine in small chunks. Apparently you're pulling them too quickly now, and Google is shutting you off. May be worth detecting and pausing the download vs re-trying. :P

And popping up a display warning about changing tile service may be nice too.

Looks like off-line loading is working correctly now from the yahoo sqlite db after grabbing the areas I needed. Finally I'll be able to navigate those areas with poor cell reception without issues!

indeed... downloaded the OSM tiles of the area and I can confirm it is all working well now... PHEW

V0.25-6 is out!

Most improvements concern the batch download feature. ModRana now checks the magic number of downloaded tiles (using libmagic) to check if they really are valid images - if they are not, they are discarded and marked as failed downloads. This should fix all the all the "tiles batch downloaded but not showing up" errors.

I have also added a counter for the number of failed tile downloads and modRana now re-tries failed downloads (up to 3 times).

There is now also a data transfer counter and the status messages should now be less confusing.

Thanks for the update Martin,

I see in the change log that there is some option regarding font size but could not find anything in the option menu. The route info page for me has overlapped text due to large font size.

Let us know your thoughts on this.

Thanks
Bipin

Hi, I instaled modRana (and now marble as well) after the stock ovi maps failed for me last time and used it last night for a trip.

I downloaded the route and let it download the tiles at home a few days before that and it all seemed to work well. however, while on route i noticed 2 or 3 tiles didn't show (network error).

Also, while driving, I noticed it displayed 'turn on to A12' with the distance increasing steadily. this was after that turn and i was already on the A12. Is this a bug or a feature? because i was on a long stretch of road the next turn was probably still far away but should it not display the next step anyway?

I tried to press the screen for the next step but it tried to go online for re-routing.
Can this have a time out or something, because I had my phone in ofline mode, it couldnt reroute and just kept displaying the message for ten minutes or so

I stopped at a petrol station, went online and let it re-calculate the route and it worked fine after that.
When it was time to go home this morning I went online let it calculate the return trip, went offline again and everything worked perfectly

Couple of requests for improving this program

Can you make the background of the text that displays the turn info slightly darker for more contrast? I have it mounted on my motorcycle inside a RAM Aquabox and the text is a bit hard to read through several layers of plastic (box and helmet visor)

I didn't have it in full screen mode (to keep an eye on battery level) and noticed that it displays the time (which is displayed by the normal clock as well). Would be nice if this could be left out (when not in full screen mode) or make it configurable to display current speed or maybe ETA.

Offline routing, address lookup, automatic recalculating route when you miss a turn and automatic zooming would be nice too but will probably take a lot of time and work

I like the big buttons of this program, makes it easy to use even with gloves on and inside the aguabox

Reporting live from the field: the cached tiles are working
Usable GPS+modrana without internet connection.

Found one feature-request so far: the ability to have multiple POI shown on the map. Now I have to enable each POI I have set whenever I need to go there, and I miss the overview of seeing multiple so I get an overview of what is where