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Neither. Find a WiFi connection if you don't already have your own, and let Maemo Mapper handle it. I'm not trying to be a jerk, but you really don't want to manually download and sort all those map tiles (potentially thousands) into the exact right slots in the precisely numbered hierarchy.

Winmapper would be a welcome alternative if it hadn't been broken by changes in the Google map servers.

Yeah, as jpj implied, it's not a particularly user-friendly directory structure. In fact, it was designed entirely to be computer-friendly in order to make map access as efficient as possible.

If you're still curious about the directory structure, the code is the place to get the most information, otherwise there is a very brief mention of the directory structure at the Maemo Mapper homepage:

http://www.gnuite.com/nokia770/maemo-mapper/

Roger that. I'll hit a hot spot at lunch and try it that way.
Any recomendations for the Repositories Tab or others for this to work?

Thanks.

I have to report that Maemo-mapper 1.3.5 wont work with normal
google map / satellite URL:s anymore on N800. The new Virtual Earth URL:s as published on the forum works nicely. Strange.

I have both N800 and 770. On N800 1.3.5 just gives warning about
wrong URL when using google map. On 770 1.3.4 downloads maps
fine with the exactly same URL.

I kind of like Virtual Earth maps more thought

Joni

@job69; had the same for the maps URL. After some editing and ending up withthe same URL it did work again...

So strange as the URL:s that I tested was cut/pasted from one of my own email and and from this forum. They look exactly same on my both tablets. Maybe there are some nonvisible characters
there. I will check this again later tonight.

And the 1.3.4 maemo-mapper worked ok. I did not touch the repos at all. Then after upgrade to 1.3.5 I noticed that download does not work any more.

Maybe something is wrong on the gnome-config files and I should
do clean install by removing all the configs etc.

At the mean time I'm downloading maps from Virtual Earth to my
1GB SD card.

Joni




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Now i got maemo-mapper 1.3.5 working again with google maps. I was just copying new url and after that it worked ok. i did make new repo with new folder for google map maps though.


URL now is http://mt.google.com/mt?n=404&v=w2.9...d&y=%d&zoom=%d

How do you download maps from Google Earth?

hello. i've noticed since i've dn loaded 1.35 that when i try to dn load a route in the top half of the box it asks for a source url. i tired using the virtual earth url along w/ the google street url & the message says can't find driving directions server. doesn't happen on 1.34. any help & insight greatly appreciated.
Derrick

That "Source URL" is not the same as a Map URL, so using the google street URL will not work. It is supposed to have a default (that usually shouldn't be modified), but if (for some reason) it doesn't, use the following:

http://www.gnuite.com/cgi-bin/gpx.cgi?saddr=%s&daddr=%s