Notices

Wow! This program is dope! I got it to work...but I have one question. How can I avoid having to download the map constantly? is there a way to download it once?

the maemo-mapper will not download the portions of the map that are already downloaded. you can use the application i made if you want to download big areas of the map:
http://www.barghis.com/winmapper.htm

I was looking all over for this, I found it while I was at work but now at home I couldn't find it!...maybe I'm just sleepy. How would I get the coordinates for my area?

you can zoom in, the top-left corner (with the maemo-mapper on your 770) and then go in menu to Map->download area, and the View Center will show you the coordinates for that position. Do the same for the right-bottom. You can do the same thing on your windows computer using Google Earth

Once again, this sleep deprived brain of mine isn't working too well. I figured it out, man this isn't hard at all in any way, shape, or form! All the script this and script that...which I read in previous posts threw me off and made me think it's hard to do this stuff, but it's rather easy. Gnuite and Ioan...you guys are the best!

One last question before I go to sleep...would if I have everything downloaded, would the 770 still need internet connectivity to get where I'm at in anyway? or would the mapper know what map to load?

If you have all the maps downloaded and they are placed in the correct directory, then maemo-mapper does not need any internet connection for showing the correct position/map.

Thanks I'll give that a try.

Dave

I've got an iBlue receiver now but Maemo-mapper does not recognise it. I tried to pair it using the BT phone wizard, it is recognised as BT-Q800 GPS, I enter 0000 as passcode but then the message I get is: "Selected phone does not have services that can be used. Select another phone."

I have the BT application installed (for a BT keyboard), is that interfering with pairing?

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Sorted. I had to use the BT plugin to connect which gave me the MAC address, which I entered manually in Maemo-mapper. (The MAC was set to 00:00:00:00:00:00 before as I did not have the receiver then.)

That's exactly what I had to do.

I could see some uses for this. Automated tour guide service, geocaching ... if was easy enough to create these custom GPX waypoint files, you could even create location dependent events to remind you to pick up some milk on the way home from work when you are driving past the store :] Kind of a spacial to-do list rather than a temporal one.

I just got my GPS last night and finally got to try the full functionality of maemo-mapper out. Very nice!

I am not sure if others have mentioned these but my feedback would be:
- since I had already faked it out by putting in a 00:00:00:00:00:00 hardware address, it was a little difficult to switch to the real thing. Maybe a button in the GPS Settings to "Redetect GPS Module" might make things easier. Since I had an xterm installed and now know about hcitool, getting the BT HW Address is easy now but I was a bit stumped initially.
- it would be nice if the autocentering was not reset to "none" when the fullscreen button was pressed. I did figure out that you can cycle through the centering modes once you are fullscreen with one of the other buttons so it is a minor annoyance but I think that the setting should be preserved when switching to and from fullscreen.
- being able to adjust the centering lead without going into the settings menu. Maybe you can but I haven't figured it out. But the only way you can effectively adjust it to you liking is while you are moving and simultaneously fiddling with menu entries and driving is a bit dangerous :] Maybe a hardware key combination of the button used to switch centering modes with the zoom in/out could be used for this.
- information text overlay displaying speed/position/bearing/etc. that you can toggle on and off. I am not sure how well the message notification text box in the upper right corner deals with dynamically updated info but that might be a good spot for it.

Regardless, thanks for the great application! The GPS hardware stores should thank you too as I can see that I am not alone in maemo-mapper motivating me to buy a BT module.