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Funny you wrote this. On one leg of my trip I couldn't figure out why the screen would NOT dim and it never occured to me that I was in full screen mode. I'll check it out.

Gnuite, Maemo Mapper is already one of the killer apps for NITs, but here is my wishlist for 2.0:

-Smaller GPS information display. Maybe skinable with transparency? Or maybe have a "full info" mode and one which displays a smaller but still useful subset? Most of the time, I just want a compass and to see how many GPS sats are locked in.
-Vertical display mode. It is much easier to hold the N800 securely with one hand while walking by slipping one's hand through the stand than by holding it horizontally. Combined with an auto map rotation function, a vertical map orientation would also display more of your upcoming route as well. It might also be nice to keep one's present location about 3/4 of the way down the screen to display as much of the upcoming route as possible. For car use, you are really much more interested in what is ahead of you than what is behind.
-Would be cool to export ones tracks to a variety of common gps formats.
-Would be cool to be able to do a screenshot of one's route from directly within the program. Even cooler would be to be able to specify a given zoom level and have the program build a giant map from all the appropriate tiles, plotting one's path along it. Would be very handy for those "here is where I went today on my hike/bike/vacation" type blog posts.
-database oriented map storage as an option. Storing tens of thousands of tiny images as files presents all sorts of filesystem issues.

Not to get impatient, but is there any estimate on a release date? I am looking forward to this more than the release of Skype!

Try using "Lead mode" instead of "Auto-centering". While moving this will show you more of what's ahead.

I apologize if it has already been suggested, but an updated "you are here" icon (perhaps a large arrow like the garmins and navicores?) would be helpful. All too often I find myself searching the screen for the little blue dot, especially in bright sunlight while driving down the road. Perhaps I've missed the option to increase the icon size?

Thanks!

The option is called "Line Width" and is in the "Misc." tab of the Settings dialog. It affects both "marks" (circles representing current position or waypoints) and the lines between them (including the "velocity vector"). Perhaps it is poorly labeled...

Mapper v2 multilanguage ? I can help for french.

Very new to use of Maemo Mapper with BT GPS unit, fantastic software gnuite.

Slightly off subject, but could we prepare and manipulate our intended routes and saved Tracks via a Personal Computer using something similar to http://routebuilder.org/ manipulating/updating and transferring them as seamlessly as possible between PC and Internet Tablets?

Perhaps there is something already available as I have not read through all Maemo Mapper posts/threads yet ? (GPX Driving Directions http://gnuite.com:8080/cgi-bin/gpx.cgi)

---edit---Here is an example of what would be really great to achieve in an automated fashion from a Nokia N800 in the future i.e. Planned Route, becomes a track taken with Photos/Videos along the planned route. Geotagged Picasa JSON/KML Output + Driving Directions = Instant Scenic Tours!

I'm a big fan of maemo-mapper and mostly search geocaches with it.

When you do this the following features woulb be nice:
- Add POIs in the format 00° 01.000'
- Add a possibility to add a POI, that is 500m and in 35° direction from current (GPS location)
- Make a (switchable) sound if your GPS location matches exactly the location of a POI.
- Go to POI would be nice to.

All i can say it's a great program and i'm looking forward to V2.0.

Many thanks!!
asys3

I have a very difficult time trying to figure out which maps and which zoom levels I have downloaded for Google Streets. Scanning the maps directory doesn't really tell me much because it's a bunch of non-intuitive numbers.

What I might be suggesting is a method that Garmin MapSource uses. When you look at the US map in the county selection mode, you see the counties that you have selected to your Garmin. The selected counties show up in pink instead of white. Could we have a helper application that is run outside of Maemo=Mapper that will look at the maps directory and show you what regions have been downloaded. Maybe the user could select a zoomlevel at a time.

As a side note, I am having trouble using mt.google.com to select and download groups of maps to my PC. Is there a tutorial anywhere that I can refer to?

(Maemo=Mapper is definitely a killer app...it would be great having it run on a Linux or Windows machine)