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You guys might wanna check this one out too...it's free. http://terraserver.microsoft.com/

Good idea. Maemo Mapper currently detects when the cover is put on, turning off the scanning when that occurs. It should also turn off scanning when Offline mode is enabled. I never use Offline mode, so I had never thought about it.


The "Enter" button (center of the D-Pad) does this. When you are already auto-centered, it toggles between the two auto-center modes. When you are not auto-centered (because you panned), it enables your most recent auto-center mode.


See Feature Request Tracker Item #25.

Good idea. I'll make this possible in the "Download Along Route" functionality when POI's come.

http://armin-warda.de/maemo-mapper-1...-0.4_armel.deb contains an option to disable the default behaviour 'Maemo-Mapper disconnects from GPS when the device cover is closed'. Thus it allows you to operate Maemo-Mapper with a closed device cover, which protects the touchscreen. (Like maemo-mapper-1.0.1-aw-0.3_armel.deb, it also supports two sets of URI/Map parameters, and easy toggling these.)

I think the option to perform GPS tracking with closed device cover is an important feature for outdoor activities with Maemo-Mapper & GPS, such as hiking, running, cycling,..

(NOTE: you must also disable the corresponding device's global setting: 'Tools' -> 'Control Panel' -> Connectivity' -> 'Disconnect when cover on device').

It would be really great if gnuite could add such a feature into his Maemo-Mapper mainline, which is already at v1.1.0, while my modification is still based on v1.0.1 (this has no timestamps in gpx-files).

http://maemo.org/pipermail/maemo-use...ly/001588.html

Maemo Mapper is not a tracking program. It is a display program. Since Maemo Mapper can perform no useful display functionality when the cover is on, it turns off all of its functionality in order to save battery power.

Today on my route I had to make more than 1 delivery at once and decided to try to add a route to my existing 1st route. I discovered hat while it was possible (a big plus), it was too cumbersome at this stage to use (a big negative)... cancelling ea other out, heh. To add a route on top of your current route, you have to go into 'Route>Download' and copy the lat/long from the clipboard. It was at this point I found my first bug So.... bug report.... 'Waypoint>Copy lat/long to Clipboard' returns answer 'latitude:46.0000000'... it actually says 'latitude' and does not have longitude at all. To enter a lat/long into your text field to obtain a route, it takes the '46.000000, -121.0000000' format with no words etc, so the copy feature of press-and-hold should load the lat/long this way for us, too, heh.

Enhancement:
Please add, in the 'Route>Download' popup window, a button to click that says 'Add Dest' for Add Destination. Clicking this pops up another window with one text window field, and two buttons, ok and cancel. If we put in our address and hit ok, the route appends to the end of the last route generated automatically, allowing us to quickly load any number of destinations before we ever get on the road. Of course, now that we have a bunch of green lines on the map crisscrossing each other, you may have to make all but the CURRENT route yet another color like grey or yellow. And as we arrive at one destination and begin our track to the next destination on our multi-route setup, the 2nd route then becomes the new green one.

Of course, not all GPS' provide perfect results, so if there is a feaure to have multi-routes that change colors as you enter/exit each stage of your multi-route setup, then we'd need a 'Force Arrival of Current Route' button somewhere to tell Maemo Mapper that 'hey, my GPS is stupid cause we ARE there now, so go ahead and start the next segment of the route... changing segment colors, etc...'

Aaaargh, I've added too much to your plate.... not my intention. I'd just like a clean way to add multiple routes into one huge setup while yet NOT adding confusion. I can force MM to do this, it just takes me 5 minutes, and I can't be sitting in my car that long... if you can use the idea, great, otherwise I understand.

Later.

Hi, I just tried maemo mapper, and it really works well.

I've just noticed a problem with the gpx site at http://gnuite.com:8080/cgi-bin/gpx.cgi.

If I use as a source or destination a location in the northeastern italy, it doesn't work: try for example to get the file from roma to bilbao and it works, try from roma to venezia and it doesn't work. The same with other cities

Yes; this has been fixed, but hasn't been checked into SVN yet.

It already works this way. Opening (or downloading a route without auto-update) appends the route to the end of your existing route. You have to "Clear Route" first in order to replace a route.

Downloading a route with auto-update replaces your current route because the auto-update must update from your current location to a single location (the entered destination), so it doesn't make sense to append an auto-route to the end of another route.

The GPX Driving Directions site only works with directions that work in Google Maps. If the given source and destination do not work with Google Maps, then they will not work in the GPX Driving Directions site. In your case, "roma italy" to "balbao spain" works in Google Maps, but "roma italy" to "venezia italy" does not. I don't know why the former works in Google Maps but the latter doesn't - perhaps they don't have enough road data.

I apologize for not being clear enough about what I'm after, heheh, but I am not asking for the functionality because I discovered last night that you programmed it that way already.... I was hoping (when your plate isn't so full with the other stuff) that you would make a way to enter the multiple routes more streamlined for faster data entry. I am happy to feedback the idea to save you the hassle. It could go like this....

Route>Download.... popup window. Route popup window has these features, as discussed from previous threads plus this one:

1) Use GPS location checkbox (in its current pos)
2) Auto Update checkbox (in its current pos)
3) Origin and Dest text box (in cur pos)
New:
4) Swap button (swap Origin fields with Dest by clicking once)
5) Clear Fields button. (Data in Origin and Dest fields should remain populated until cleared by user in order to expediate item #4 from this list.
6) 'Grab Dest' button. This could be the defacto multiple route feature, so it would be to where we append our routes. (This button grabs the Destination coords from the previous route added by user but puts it in Origin field automatically because we're appending another route now, so auto-update feature greys out to prevent being checked. Destination field clears to make room for the next destination to be typed in.)

This feature would just make it very fast to load multiple routes.

And... I'm still gunning for all non-current the routes being another color until you get to them, so you need to number each route internally as the user adds thrm via the Grab Dest button, etc...

Examples of full concept: Say I'm taking the family on a vacation. Disneyland, Six Flaggs, and Universal. I load all three via 'Grab Dest' one at a time and set off. Disneyland is green, the other two are yellow on my route. I get to Disney, and head toward Six Flaggs, Disney turns off, my new route Six Flaggs turns green, Universal is still yellow. Once we get to Six Flaggs, it turns off and now turns our Universal route green. This coloring system also prevents confusion when lines cross on multi routes ... because only the current route will be green. (I say green and yellow here only to clarify my idea, each color can be whatever each user defined in their own Colors setting.)

Or say I type in an addy to a party. After six hours of hilarity, it's time to go, but it's dark and I can't remember the way out. I bring MM up from the desktop and go into Route>Download and click Swap, and hit ok. Voila! The way out!

Once this multi-route functionality is added (IF) we might then ask for a way to reorganize our routes to save gas. Say we have 8 places on our route, and 3 of them nearly overlap by a few blocks.... could we move routes around to put those three together 1...2....3.... in order? We often times can't tell how close deliveries will be until after we've added in all of our address in MM and then pan around the map, but a lot of green lines makes it confusing. We might at this point need a way to visualize all the Destinations more easily by turning off the green lines and just have a flashing dot where your destinations are to see which ones are close in order reorganize them? In this 'Destination Visualization' mode, each Dest has the number floating over it that you entered it as. If we click on that Destation's flashing icon, a window pops up with 16 buttons numbered 1 through 16 that reads "Swap With Which Item #?' You then pick something else. We could do all of our reorgs, and then exit that mode to reenable MM's regular use. Just a thought....

I hope I am helpful here and not an irritant, hehehe. Yours truly,

ceklund