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gkuenning	2010-09-10 , 06:27
Posts: 67 \| Thanked: 36 times \| Joined on May 2010 @ Claremont (LA), California	#181

Originally Posted by paai

Mappero is awesome, but there are two things that escape me:

1. how to keep the gps location centered when driving. Every few minutes I drive 'off the map' and have to sweep the screen to get the dot back center.

2. how do I prevent the screen from switching off.

Paai

1. First, make sure that the "GPS" icon that appears when you tap the screen has a red check mark. If not, touch "GPS" to turn it on. Then, tap the gear icon just to the left of "GPS". One of the options there is "Auto-Center". Set it to anything except "off".

2. My preference is to keep my N900 plugged into a power supply while driving, since GPS eats power. Then I use the "Display stays lit when charging" option in the settings application, "display" option. An alternative is in Mappero itself: in the top menu (the one on the standard menu bar) choose "Settings->Misc", then set the "unblank screen" option to something other than "never".

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paai	2010-09-10 , 07:30
Posts: 162 \| Thanked: 25 times \| Joined on Dec 2009	#182

Thanks, gkuenning, but I tried all those options to no avail, except the 'unblank screen' - I will try that today.
Last week, when I needed Mappero, I already did put Autocenter I on lat/long and 'display lit when charging', but that did not give the wanted result, and a moment ago I saw that Autocenter was put back to off without me touching it.

I suspect that there may be another setting somewhere in mappero that resets autocenter when twiddled.

Paai

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gkuenning	2010-09-11 , 03:35
Posts: 67 \| Thanked: 36 times \| Joined on May 2010 @ Claremont (LA), California	#183

Originally Posted by paai

I suspect that there may be another setting somewhere in mappero that resets autocenter when twiddled.

Most definitely. I know for sure that it shuts off autocenter when you use a feature like "go to POI". But for me, it always warns with a popup that says something like "Autocenter Off".

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	janszoon	2010-11-04 , 07:39
	Posts: 224 \| Thanked: 80 times \| Joined on Nov 2009	#184

Hello, I used Mappero for the first time today and love it ! Trying to get some nautical maps in there too :-) When I first had it on today, just on battery, 3G data, automatic d/l...the screen stayed on as per setting "On when moving/fullscreen"

Now....for the life of me, no matter what I choose from the Screen Blank settings, I cannot get the screen to remain on???

Any ideas?

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My N900 Photo Gallery and Slideshow

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	sondjata	2010-11-22 , 00:55
	Posts: 1,076 \| Thanked: 176 times \| Joined on Mar 2007	#185

It seems that Google is not allowing connections via MM over ATT Internet. Haven't been able to connect for 2 days. If I was on the road I would be screwed.

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N800
Diablo
Boot from MMC
Gpodder Cache on MMC
MTube Cache on MMC
Mugen 1800mAh Battery
Addesso USB rollup keyboard
Solio Solar Charger
Holux GPSlim GPS

N810
community SSU
Turbo Diablo
8GB external
Boot from Internal SD
Still no GPS Fix.

N900
Stock
32GB
Many Solar Chargers (Saved bacon during Sandy!)
Inland ProHT BT keyboard
What's this? A GPS Fix? Wowwwwwww

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mrover	2012-07-31 , 16:22
Posts: 17 \| Thanked: 0 times \| Joined on Jul 2010	#186

Hi.

I keep getting "Invalid source or destination" error while "Going to address" or trying to get a route.

I have latest version.

Thank you in advance.
Cheers.

edit: Routing in CloudGPS does not work either...

Last edited by mrover; 2012-07-31 at 17:54.

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twy213	2012-08-02 , 16:24
Posts: 26 \| Thanked: 12 times \| Joined on Dec 2008	#187

I have Maemo Mapper on my N800 which still is able to plot Routes from "http://pgx.geotags.com/cgi-bin/gpx.cgi?saddr=%d&daddr=%s" per Frago's 8/1/10 post (http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=59500).

Can Mappero's router be changed from Google to "http://pgx.geotags.com/cgi-bin/gpx.cgi?saddr=%d&daddr=%s"? Right now I have to download a Route in the N800 and email it to my N900's "Routes" folder, and not being able to download Routes from Google sucks.

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lartza	2012-08-06 , 09:13
Posts: 4 \| Thanked: 7 times \| Joined on Aug 2012	#188

I've located the source code for mappero 3.2 (latest for n900) http://repository.maemo.org/extras/p.../maemo-mapper/

It seems that google url is hardcoded in plugins/google.c

Code:

#define GOOGLE_ROUTER_URL \
    "http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=%s&daddr=%s&output=kml"

Replacing this with Frago's geotags.com URL should provide a quick fix for the problem

I currently don't have the maemo development environment installed on any PC so this simple fix is a bit of work...

If someone has the environment ready, please try it. Just change the URL and recompile

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Moz	2012-08-06 , 15:58
Posts: 8 \| Thanked: 0 times \| Joined on Jan 2010	#189

It seems that google is not supporting the output=kml parameter anymore to retrieve the waypoints in a kml file. json still seems to be supported.

For routing google has an api: https://developers.google.com/maps/d...on/directions/
Maybe it would be nice to move to this xml format, which contains basically the same information / structure as the kml output.

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ZedThou	2012-08-06 , 21:18
Posts: 47 \| Thanked: 31 times \| Joined on Jul 2010	#190

Originally Posted by lartza

I've located the source code for mappero 3.2 (latest for n900) http://repository.maemo.org/extras/p.../maemo-mapper/

It seems that google url is hardcoded in plugins/google.c
Code:
#define GOOGLE_ROUTER_URL \
    "http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=%s&daddr=%s&output=kml"
Replacing this with Frago's geotags.com URL should provide a quick fix for the problem

I currently don't have the maemo development environment installed on any PC so this simple fix is a bit of work...

If someone has the environment ready, please try it. Just change the URL and recompile

I've tried

Code:

http://gpx.geotags.com/cgi-bin/gpx.cgi?saddr=%s&daddr=%s

(and verified that the new libgoogle.so is being used, as I initially had pgx.geotags.com with resulting dns lookup error), but am still receiving the invalid destination error.