Notices

Originally Posted by luca

I forgot to turn off auto-dowload before leaving home, and as soon as I lost the connection I entered in an endless loop of connection attempts. Maybe it's just a maemo fault, but until I got a connection I couldn't access maemo mapper (or anything else for that matter).

Originally Posted by luca

I also tried a test route and the option to download maps following the route is grayed out.

Originally Posted by sondjata

Definitely heavier on the CPU. ;-\

Originally Posted by TPC

Sorry for making three posts almost in a row, but I noticed some other things. When scrolling outside the "edge" of the world it goes out then bumps you back in. It would have been nicer if it would have prevented you from going outside at all, as it takes a few noticable milliseconds to redraw the screen.

Originally Posted by TPC

Also the menu buttons for scrolling the map doesn't work (altought the hardware keys work fine, and I don't see why anyone would want to use the menues for that as its much slower, so why have them in the menues?)

Originally Posted by TPC

I was downloading maps for a large area (176mb in total) and while waiting I thought I'd check out the POI browser, but that seemed to freeze the download of the map, it was just sitting there not downloading anything, and the database file not getting any bigger if I du -h ed it in a terminal.

Originally Posted by TPC

You should be able to select a few icons for POIs rather than just having a dot, would be much more usable.

Originally Posted by TPC

Also could you make the description part of a POI longer than two lines? 5-8 lines or so would be optimal, I use maemo mapper for geocaching and store down alot of info about each location, and having to scroll after reading two lines is extremly annoying.

Originally Posted by TPC

The screen rotation feature is useful, but when you're standing still and the GPS position is drifting its a bit annoying that it keeps rotating in random directions, especially in areas where the position isn't very accurate it could jump a few meters here and there every few seconds and it will rotate in different ways. If there could be some lower speed that it has to go above to count to rotate the screen that would be nice. Maybe you didn't notice because there is good accuracy in your area, but I'm so far north that EGNOS (europeean version of WAAS) doesn't work here, so it can be bad at times. Would be nice if the same lower speed limit applies to adding points to the route so it doesn't look like you're going around in circles when you're actually standing still. Having this limit just below walking speed would be optimal, maybe it could be a configurable value.

Originally Posted by zeez

Very nice work! Thanks a lot!!
One question so: Everytime i drag the map the "new" area that comes into view is black and does not get drawn before i stop dragging the map. This is the case even for areas where i have downloaded all maps before. Not sure if that is how it is suppoed to be, since dragging is a new feature...

Originally Posted by jdr93

i would like to see the "make a new route" selection on the first page of the drop down menu.

Originally Posted by jdr93

i tried out a quick route-search last night right after i installed the program and saw that it had selected the longest and most out of the way route, but one which used a major road. i'd like a selection capability that finds the most direct route, or the fastest route.

Originally Posted by jdr93

i presume you mean 'interstate' when asking whether to use highways?

Originally Posted by gnuite

Yes, that's how it has to work, because redrawing the screen takes some time. It can't redraw for each point at which you drag, so it waits until you're done dragging before it redraws.

Originally Posted by DingerX

Hey, way cool, and thanks a bunch for your continued good work.



I understand the problem. Here's a question: what would be the impact of drawing "screen" nine times the current size, and showing only the center part, so that when you dragged slowly, the black would not immediately appear? Or perhaps drawing the surrounding parts from a lower resolution upscaled? That way, slight movements of the screen wouldn't necessitate a redraw.
The black isn't fun, especially when we're just making slight adjustments; if it's necessary, we'll understand.

Originally Posted by gnuite

The directions are the same as would be provided by Google Maps. Does Google Maps offer you the same long route?

Originally Posted by gnuite

You can use your own icons, but there is no user interface for it. You just have to put a .jpg file (can be a PNG, but it needs to have the .jpg extension) in the same directory as the POI database, and with the same name as the category for which you want to use a different icon.

Originally Posted by gnuite

There's not a lot of room in that dialog to show more than two lines at a time, but I can try tightening up the dialog a little.

Originally Posted by gnuite

Actually, there is a lower bound on the auto-rotation. You have to have at least some speed in order for the auto-rotation to work. I can provide an option to increase this minimum, if that would help.