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klinglerware: thank you! I have no idea how i missed that option!

Hi,

I'm glad to found one of my favorite apps for the N810 maemo mapper as mappero for my new N900. And first I would like to say thank you to the people that are working on it! This is a really helpful app and I enjoyed to use it with my N810 on my motorcycle for routing and tracking.

My Idea, now, is that I would like to copy map-files, routes and tracks from my N810 to the N900. So I started with viewing some maps (VirtualEarth) with the N900 to see if there is a map-directory created and to check if it runs, if I copy my files to this directory. But after viewing some maps and zooming in (so that N900 processes some maps) I can't find a map-directory in the N900 file manager.

Can somebody please tell me, where the downloaded map-files are located or If I have to do some settings first?

Thanks in advance!

T.

/home/user/MyDocs/.maps

Directories
- GoogleVector
-OpenStreetMap I

Directories has been created automatically when I browsed the map.

Thanks for your answer. When I connect the N900 in mass storage mode I've found them.

Looks different from how the maps are stored on the N810. So I will have to download my maps again. But maybe I can use my saved routes and tracks further on.

By the way, it seems to me that maps on the N900 takes lots more storage than on the N810. Is that right?

T.

Does somebody knows about the reasons why storing maps is different between N810 and N900?

I load maps of some areas in different levels (6,8,10) and although the areas where not so big I got several GB's of maps on my device, now.

Thanks in advance!

T.

Can someone tell me how to download maps for mappero? It would be best if I can download this from my computer and then transfer them to my n900. I do not care if its open street maps or google maps, as long as it works.

I do not have an internet connection outside.

I don't know, if there is a way to download maps to your PC and put them to the N900. Usually you have to download maps using the Manage Maps Dialog directly in Mappero using your N900. If you do not have a data flat on your mobile phone contract take care that you are using wireless lan for this. You should start with downloading a small area (maybe your hometown) in the zoom-levels you would like to have on your device. That will give you a feeling for the time it will take to download bigger areas.

T.

I just installed mappero for 1st time from extras-testing. Love it in concept, but some feedback in practice:

1) The default voice prompts are in some romance-type language, similar to Italian, but subtly different. Purely out of curiosity, what is it? I speak a bit of Spanish & Italian, and I found myself understanding it without really noticing at first - is it Esperanto?

2) There seems to be no way (other than "avoid highways") to tell the route calculator that you are on foot - I did a short test route and the suggested one would have been fine for a car but way longer than neccessary for a pedestrian. It ignored a main pedestrian thoroughfare through a city centre park, which is I guess understandable, but it also suggested a "straight" road route with one right angled turn, rather than the available "hypotenuse" route that Pythagoras would have advised! Is there a way to optimise the routign engine for pedestrian use?

3) After walking the test route for a while I diverged from it on purpose to see what would happen. I had the "auto-calculate" option set, which I hoped would cause the app to re-calculate my route on the fly - but it didn't seem to. Is that what this option is intended to do?

4) I abandoned that route (did a clear) and entered a second one. It failed to identify my desired destination from a text lookup, and even via selecting it from the map. On each occasion it gave the yellow banner with "generic error". Both times, my starting point was my GPS location.

5) I closed the app, and reopened it to try and cure this - mappero started, but then dissapeared. I repeated this and it started OK next time, but still gave the generic error message when I tried to plan my route. I rebooted the phone (hadn't done this since installing mappero BTW) but still no joy. All this was while on a 2G/3G data connection. When I later got back to my house and fired up mappero again on wifi, it still won't accept my destination (or several others local to it) - though it now says "invalid source or destination", when my source is still current GPS location. I can understand this may happen based on the street name only (Ovi often won't find a name even when it is displayed on the map) but mappero also won't accept it as a destination when I attempt to specify it simply tapping on the street on the map. Only thing I can think of is that the destnations I'm entering are fairly close (~200m-500m) to my current location. Would that confuse matters?

6) when entering a destination, an auto-complete box will appear beside the text entry field (black text on blue background) which suggests based on previous places you've entered. This is in addition to the auto-complete suggestions in the entry field itself. The latter works fine - but the former does nothing when clicked (a shame, as it would be very useful).

Hope none of this sounds negative - on the contrary, this is clearly the navigation app that the n900 has been waiting for (though, unlike most, I don't actually hate Ovi Maps, particularly since PR1.2) - just wanted to give some feedback as a new user, please kep up the good work :-)

The manage map dialog download whats on your screen basically. And it is really slow. If I want to download the entire US, I zoom all the way out until I can see the entire US 50 states, If I hit download everything for zoom level 6 there, it will simply crash my n900 because there will be 123,456,789 maps to be downloaded.

So basically, there is no way to predownload the maps for mappero. You must have an internet connection on the road, or you take very short trips and pre-browse the path you want to take and let mappero download it for you then.

Plot a route, then go to the Application Menu (top bar) > Maps > Manage Maps > Setup > Along Route (radius default of 8 is fine) > Zoom (choose whichever you want. 5 or 6 is zoomed enough without downloading too many maps) > OK.

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