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I tried the route function following directions in 1st post
after clicking fetch rote from google I get an error dialog

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RoadMap: Error

Cannot open file /home/user/MyDocs/.documents/trips/.googleroute.gpx

obviously a directory problem - any help appreciated

actually using 1.1.0j-3
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That's where RoadMap should save the google route. I'd verify that the trips directory exists. It should be visible on the device in the file manager. If the directory exists, you may be having a download problem. Verify your Internet connection.
Also, make sure your route only has 2 points- start and destination. You should see a red dot on the destination and a green triangle at the start, with a red line connecting them. Then on hitting 'fetch google route, you should get the merge dialog.

If none of that helped post back

cheers,
kernelpanic

new problem - reinstalled and now maps are now displaying.

Get GPX Fix

run getmaps - leaving all settings untouched -radius 10 km - address bits 21 - download directory pointing to roadmaps dir on MMC2 - check overwrite - hit Get OSM maps - says successful and program launches but yellow bar says no maps visible - try long tap and get OSM maps of current view with no luck.

quick followup -

issue one - gonna revisit cause its still happening after many many reinstalls
I tap on destination -see yellow dot-long press/new route to selection

- press g and tap on location -long press/route start

I now see red line - fetch route still produces same error. Going to trips/new trip produces Cannot open file /home/user/.documents/trips/SavedTrip.gpx

file system error?






issue two - downloaded tiger maps and using those maps for now unless you can figure out why or I will wait for version 4.

Can you verify that the directory /home/user/.documents/trips exists? It should show up in the file manager under device name->Documents->trips. If the directory doesn't exist create it. If it does exist, please verify the permissions on it. To do that you can post back the output from the following command in xterm-

$ ls -l /home/user/.documents/

the trips dir should look like-

drwxr-xr-x 2 user users 4096 00:00 trips

If the permissions or ownership are wrong, or the directory doesn't exist, that'll cause your problem.

The why is easy. It's posted on this thread The basic issue is users were downloading very large maps and were hammering their server... I'm in contact with the maintainer and there's a fix coming. But we've got to be careful here as we can't have the binary proxies all hammering the openstreetmap.org API server either.

So please be patient. We're all trying to make it work well without hogging anybody's bandwidth...

Cheers,
kernelpanic

update on problem and foll error

Cannot open file /home/user/MyDocs/.documents/trips/.googleroute.gpx

error continues and still no suggestions for a fix-

I am able to become root - cd to /home/user/MyDocs
then do a ls and .documents is not shown - hidden? could this be the problem?
cd .documents - ls and trips is visible
cd trips - ls and nothing is shown. googleroutes.gpx should be there.

Again any help would be appreciated. Thanks

bg4,

Files/directories that start with a dot are hidden. To view them use 'ls -a'.

Please reread my previous post regarding the permissions.-
If the drwx... stuff doesn't look the same, or the directory doesn't belong to user:users then there's your problem.

You can change the permissions and ownership by doing (as root)-
# chmod 755 /home/user/MyDocs/.documents/trips
# chown -R user:users /home/user

Or to totally start from scratch, uninstall RoadMap, the open xterm, get root and do(exactly)-

# rm -rf /home/user/.roadmap
# rm -rf /home/user/MyDocs/.documents/trips

Then reinstall RoadMap. It will recreate the needed directories with the correct permissions

Hope that helps,
kernelpanic

kernelpanic - 1st thanks for the program - I believe its the best of the four out there and has tremendous potential and I know that my problem has nothing to do with you program and thanks for trying to help.

It just started working - can save trips - now I don't know exactly what I did -

Thanks for the help =

Bob

Thanks for the compliment. I'm glad it's working for you now. If I had to guess what was happening, I'd say root owned the trips directory. But that's just a guess...

cheers,
kernelpanic

p.s.- As far as rating the mapping apps available for Maemo, I will say that comparing vector based vs. raster based apps is kind of an apples to oranges thing. Raster based maps take up more space but use less CPU as maps do not need to be rendered. Also, raster based apps like Maemo-Mapper can give one street maps, topo maps, aerial photos, etc. However, vector maps offer smaller map size on-disk and the possibility of on board routing.

In short, RoadMap will never replace Maemo-Mapper. (I use Maemo-Mapper with topo maps all the time when hiking.) Luckily both read GPX files so the same tracks and routes can be shared by both.

As for comparing RoadMap to other vector based apps like Navit, I will say this- When I got my n810 I realized that I didn't like the included mapping suite, that it certainly wasn't (to me) worth the price they were asking. So I started looking for an existing mapping application to port to Maemo. I quickly came to two choices- RoadMap or Navit. I built both on x86 and chose RoadMap over Navit because-
A) It was more mature and feature rich.

B) I liked the UI better.

C) The public-domainness of Tiger and OSM data appeals to me. I didn't want to create an open source application that used or relied on proprietary (i.e. Garmin) data. (Navit now has OSM support, so this is moot.)

D) While Navit has routing, the street data needed to make it reliable (i.e. street directionality for one-way streets, and speed limit data) just isn't there yet. Besides, RoadMap has a routing engine in the RoadMap-Editor branch which can(and is being) merged in for when such data is available. This will likely happen in parallel with the main RoadMap project to keep maps binary compatible.

Don't get me wrong here. Navit has a lot of potential. I just figured it would be easier for me to add routing to RoadMap than to add all of the other features RoadMap has to Navit. (I guess that just makes me lazy )

Really, I'm not competing with Maemo-Mapper or Navit. I think we're all three trying to put Wayfinder out of business by giving away better products than they sell.