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Hi!
I'm using maemo-mapper for some time: great job!
I've noticed that it keeps displaying "scanning for bluetooth devices" as soon as I try to change the settings: as it is scanning, the software is very slow and it becomes difficult to enter settings (specially URLs). Is there any way to prevent it from scanning? I'm not using any GPS.
Laurent.

Try disabling the GPS, then entering something in the MAC field for the GPS settings (doesn't matter as long as it's a few characters a-f or 0-9). Exit out and then next time to get in it should not scan.

Larry

This is an effective workaround. In fact, I use this approach all the time on my PC during testing. It's silly to require this, however, if "Enable GPS" is off, so it will be fixed in the next version of Maemo Mapper.

For those of you not subscribing for updates at Maemo Mapper's Garage page, version 1.1 has just been released. Here's the opening paragraph of the release notes:

Maemo Mapper v1.1 includes many changes, most notably are color customization, temporal track data, context (press-and-hold) menus, a Dutch translation, plus a few bug fixes. Due to the number of changes in this release, I am anticipating a few bugs (I already found a minor
that will have to wait until v1.1.1), so please keep this in mind if you run into some.

See the full release notes for more details.

For your convenience, this release is available in the Maemo Mapper Garage Files page, as well as in the Maemo Contrib repository:

Web location: http://repository.maemo.org/contrib/
Distribution: 2.0
Components: free non-free

How does one put packages in the Contrib repository ? I guess it would be a better place for the Privoxy port than attached to a post in this forum as it is now, but I have no idea how to go about it...

How can I compute the length of a track or track-segments
(= distance travelled) from a GPX-file I generated with
Maemo-Mapper?

Do you know a free web service or linux software, to which
I can input my GPX-file and which then outputs the length
of the track or track segments?

Easiest way is to register your project at https://garage.maemo.org/ - I don't know what the official policy is, but that's how I got invited to add to the repository.

A quick google search yields this treasure trove of geocache-related scripts:

http://geo.rkkda.com/

I believe the geo-dist script is what you're looking for. They're general unix-compatible shell scripts - mostly (if not entirely) bash scripts.

I am using Maemo Mapper on my job now... so I probably owe you a donation as soon as I can afford it, heh... increased efficiency = much praise. People are noticing the change. Thanks!

Enhancement:
1) I've noticed that I'm needing quite often now to find my way home from wherever I am, I wonder if you won't add a 'Home' function that gets our current location, puts our predefined 'home' address in automatically and brings up the green route line all with the touch of a button or something ike that? Route>'Home' ?

2) Another idea I had was to offer a 'Swap' button near the windows we put in our start and end addresses inside of Route>Download? How it would work: When we get to our Destination, the green line turns off as per nomal but the info does not clear out of the windows until we choose to clear it.... so we can load up the Route>Download and then just hit 'Swap' to flip the Start and End fields and then hit OK to track our way backwards.... ?

3) I have several blocks of google maps where the image was just starting to download when my cell dropped the connection, and now those maps have gaps in them...literal black spots and zoomed big blocky cells, Maemo Mapper thinks it's already been totally downloaded, but it hasn't. It's frustrating to look at, the center of town where I use the most (naturally, heh)... I could delete my map folder and reload, but I spent too much time getting it all setup... all I'd ike is a 'force reload of this map page' feature... in case this happens, we can just fix it.

Thanks! MM is the best!

I can download it, but cannot install 1.1... the App Installer doesn't recognize it, and even with the Repository added you gave, it does not show up in 'Programs To Install' area of App Installer.

Please help? Thanks.

[Edit: NM, it was tring to d/l as extension .armel ... I renamed it to .deb and it installed fine. Thanks!]