Notices

Originally Posted by MartinK

If you use the default tile storage method ("files"), it should share map tiles with Mappero automatically. Of course Mappero only sees the layers it expect to exist, which are IIRC Google, Google Satelite & OSM Mapnik and maybe a few others. It won't see new layers added to modRana after Mappero development was discontinued, such as the Stamen Design layers, the OSM Public transport layer, etc.

Originally Posted by sup

Thanks for answering!

Hm, that does not seem to work. I have maps saved into .maps/GoogleVector/ but those are plain Google maps. Should not Modrana pick this up? (I have changed storage to files)

Originally Posted by pichlo

Martin, is there any chance to merge your updates back into extras-devel? I get updates on other products, so there must be a way. I have added your repo to my list but I think such fragmentation is not good in the long term.

Originally Posted by pichlo

I upgraded to 0.38.1 last night and, on a whim, decided to do a big download. 160 km, all layers. It had done 37000 out of 1.4 million by the time I went to bed, so I let it work overnight. In the morning, I found a yellow pop-up saying that the operation was interrupted because of low memory. The phone was totally unresponsive. After 5 minutes of trying to coax it to react in any way, I gave up and pulled out the battery. After a reboot everything seems to work fine, only it took about 20 minutes to lock to the GPS signal. I would not blame modRana for that, I think it's simply the artifact of the GPS chip losing power. But the "low memory" error is a bit worrying.

Originally Posted by pichlo

On a personal note, I received your card a loooong time ago. I tried to PM you, did not get any error, but the PM did not appear in my "sent" folder so I assume it did not work. I did not have time to fiddle at the time and then... one thing led to another and I did not even realize how a month passed So... maybe a bit late, but thanks, it was very nice!

Originally Posted by MartinK

Hmm, thats weird - I remember setting it according to how Mappero names its folders but now it looks like it actually uses another name.

ModRana expect the Google maps folder to be called:

Code:

.maps/Google Maps

So, I see 2 possibilities how to fix that:

Editing the /home/user/.modrana/map_config.conf file and changing the Google Maps entry from:

Code:

[[gmap]]
  label=Google maps
  url="http://mt1.google.com/vt/"
  type=png
  max_zoom=21
  min_zoom=0
  folder_prefix=Google Maps
  coordinates=google
  group="google"

Into:

Code:

[[gmap]]
  label=Google maps
  url="http://mt1.google.com/vt/"
  type=png
  max_zoom=21
  min_zoom=0
  folder_prefix=GoogleVector
  coordinates=google
  group="google"

You basically just need to change to folder prefix. After that modRana will look for Google map tiles in .maps/GoogleVector/.

Please note that this file might get replaced by newer revision if a newer revision is available during a modRana upgrade - the old one should be renamed, not completely vanish.

Or if you just want to reuse the Mappero tiles in modRana, sou can just rename the folder so that modRana can see it with the default Google maps path:

Code:

cd /home/user/MyDocs
mv .maps/GoogleVector/ .maps/Google\ Maps

Originally Posted by MartinK

Oh, I got your PM

Originally Posted by pichlo

...a small suggestion. Though I suspect the implementation would be anything but small The idea is to save space by storing identical tiles and just cross-referencing them. Might be useful for those of us who live on an island: all ocean tiles are exactly identical.