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GNUITE, is there any idea when you'll start making the big changes you have planned for the Mapper? I just got my car vent mount and can't wait for these awesome changes! Keep up the good work. My only suggestions is that some less information on the satellites is given on the main screen and more quick touch buttons are added. I love the idea of making the maps rotate for direction you're headed.

Thanks again.

I have to second the rotation. At the least a means to have the map show "UP" as the direction you're going in. I've made a few wrong turns trying to figure out if I need to make a left or right.

This was a suggestion I made way back when for the 770. If the 770 doesn't have the horse power for map rotation, I would then prefer a flashing arrow pointing in the direction of my next turn.

That That would make it more like navicore or other gps things. I'm not sure this product is
going in that direction.
On another note since I missed a few turns due to the screen not being lit, it would be nice for the app to light up the screen when important direction changes are coming.would make it more like navicore or other gps things. I'm not sure this product is going in that direction.

All these new feature suggestions/possibilities sound great, and Maemo Mapper is already one of the best free applications available for the 770/N800.

Personally, what I'd like to see that I don't think anyone else has mentioned:
- Increased stability
- No-map mode (just display blank tiles, maybe a grid?)
- Ability to browse/search through the POI database
- High contrast mode (not sure how this would be done..)
- Thumb mode (put some big useful buttons on the left/right of the screen)
- An option to automatically retrieve the reverse route when downloading a route (and append/queue it to the first route)
- Further Open Street-Maps integration (ability to upload tracks/open browser with editor, etc.)

With all that said, Maemo Mapper is already great - anything extra now is just a bonus

I think the Contrast issue is with the N800 (perhaps 770 but I don't have one).
I have to second the no-Map mode. It would probably be better than the bitmapped graphics that become as the program attempts to blow up a diffferent map. I think that may also help with stability as each time I've crashed the program it has been when it has tried to load a map it didn't have. Poof! Gone!

Maemo Mapper keeps the screen lit when in full screen mode (and when you are moving). There is an option in the Settings dialog to instruct Maemo Mapper to keep the screen on (when moving) even in non-full-screen mode. Maybe this will suit your needs?

I'm not trying to deflect the blame or anything, but many of the crashes that cause Maemo Mapper to die are caused by Maemo/Hildon itself, i.e. GtkNotebook (can seg fault when destroyed) and something surrounding bluetooth (can cause Maemo Mapper to crash when the GPS receiver goes out of bluetooth range).

I am still looking for ways to avoid the problems that cause the crashes.

Not sure what you're asking for here. If you just want a black screen, then create a new, empty repository, with no URL. Maemo Mapper draws a black square on areas of the map for which it has no map data.

cjackiewicz wrote the POI code, and I don't know enough about it to easily make those kinds of changes. It's certainly possible; I just want to focus on my areas of expertise first. Maybe ask cjackiewicz.

Maybe there are some image manipulation tools I can use to increase contrast. It might not look too pretty, though...

I like a clean user interface, but what kind of buttons did you have in mind?

Sounds reasonable...

You can always save your tracks separately and upload those to OpenStreetMaps (maybe after some modification).

I don't condone this, as it's almost definitely illegal on some level, and I'll probably get yelled out for even suggesting this, not to mention it undermines the entire purpose of OpenStreetMaps (to derive open-source map data)... But if you really wanted to "help out" OpenStreetMaps, I wonder what stops you from downloading routes from the GPX Driving Directions Web Service (say from "New York, NY" to "Los Angeles, CA", or from "34.05329, -118.24501" to "37.77916, -122.42005") and uploading the resulting GPX files (after some minor XSLT transforms) to OpenStreetMaps? ...

I'm a bit surprised nobody mentioned this yet, but I think lots of people would like the ability to add kml-feeds.

It would allow easy import (lots of sites offer KML feeds for Google earth), and near-realtime display of POIs (if you can set a refresh time), and should be really simple, since kml is easy to parse.

I'm trying to hack an online FON access point list now, but it's really ugly since I can't do it in MM (don't know C), so there is an external app running besides MM.

Being able to also upload your own POIs into some repository would be a nice feature as well I think.

Some suggestions I have are:

- clearer voice synthesis (slower), multiple warnings.
- when you arrive at destination state on screen and vocally "Arived at destination," not geological coordinates.
- if < 1 km state in meters.
- ability to download route TO and route BACK on one click.
- if accidently leave route, give warning and when you arrive back on track continue vocal directions. Seems it stops vocal directions if you go off track, or cut into an old route.

Other than a few missing things this is an otherwise great application. Thank you for your hard work and effort.