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You can run Maemo Mapper on Linux inside the Maemo SDK, if you are motivated enough...

To bring my deposit up to $0.06 thus in far in this thread, i have another idea...

Possibly make route, waypoint and poi icons/lines size indepent. I like having the big blue dot representing me as i rip down the broad green road that lies ahead...leaving only an ominous red streak in my wake. All of a sudden I blast into town only to find myself completely shadowed and overtaken by a vast sea of violet squares!!

...or perhaps you could just make the poi's size independent of everything else - ''we're runnin outa gas, where's the nearest BP?!...These things are starting to descend!!''

The sizes only affect drawn lines and circles, not bitmaps. You can use your own JPGs or PNGs for the POIs. Search the forums for how to do this.

I keep getting ?error in map downloading? when I try to download new areas, anyone else getting this message?

A request for MM2.0. Single click on a POI will give you the name, as it does now but a double click will center it on screen.

Hey Guys, I have a couple more ideas to bounce against you. Let me know what you think.

First of all, I'd like to add an option to repositories to allow them to work without a cache at all. This means that, whenever a new tile is needed (i.e. not already drawn on the screen), Maemo Mapper will have to download it - it won't try to retrieve it from a cache database, because there won't be a cache database (for that particular repository). It's a bit of extra work, but I think it's definitely doable. But is it worth the effort?

Actually, cacheless repos are really only useful in and of themselves if you don't want to use your file system space for storing maps. But, they're especially useful in conjunction with transient map sources, like traffic data. Unfortunately, Google treats traffic data (like "hybrid map" data) as a separate layer, which Maemo Mapper 1.x doesn't support. Soooo... Idea #2 for Maemo Mapper 2.x is to support layered repositories. Basically, you can enable any or all of the repositories, and Maemo Mapper will draw them on top of each other (in the order you specify). Of course, top layers will need to have transparency for it to be effective. This might seriously slow down Maemo Mapper's drawing speed (transparency is hard), but it will only slow down when new maps have to be drawn on-screen (not for simple, short-distance panning). Of course, you don't have to use them if you don't like the slowness.

Layering would allow the use of Google's traffic overlay as well as their hybrid overlay. (Virtual Earth's hybrid maps don't use an overlay, so you can use them in Maemo Mapper v1.x.)

So, what do you guys think? Should I take the extra time to implement one or both of these ideas? Would anyone find it useful?

Panning will work differently in 2.0. You will tap and drag the stylus to pan. Single-clicking on an area will display detailed information about a POI or waypoint (as it does now), and double-clicking on any point will center the map on that point.

Something I'd like to see which is, I hope a simple change:

Pressing the center button cycles through the auto-center modes. If I'm scrolling around and accidentally press the button I lose the position I was looking at.

How about the button cycles through three modes - the two auto-center ones and then back to the last manually-scrolled position?

Hi gnuite,

Thanks for the report/ideas! Living in southern California, I'd love traffic capabilities added to Maemo Mapper.

Regards,

Cecil

This is my first post, so I want to start positive. I've been using Maemo Mapper for a couple of months with my LD-1W. I have previously used a Garmin 76CS, and since I work for Nokia get free licenses for Wayfinder 7 (on E90 and E61i), Telmap Nav and 'Maps' on E90. My point is that right now I prefer Mapper because of the quality and size of the maps.

Anyway, my suggestion: I like to use the 'Auto-update' checkbox when I >Download a route. However, it would be better (less CPU, less data, less distraction) if it only updated when you were off course. It would be nice if how far off course before update could be configurable too.

It is a little annoying that every few seconds my route is being 'recalculated' because the status dialog overlaps the turn directions.

Did I miss something or is there a way to only update my route only when I am off course?