Thats a bad one there. I would proceed with reflashing the firmware.

Hello,

Thanks to everyone in this forum I now have the maps I wanted on my N800. I find the maps to have detailed and mostly accurate info. Some I downloaded via the "map" app. on the Nokia and some I downloaded from the Navicore website onto my PC.

As I read through the posts in this forum, I find it difficult sometimes to understand what the poster is saying or asking.

For example: "I downloaded the map and it won't open".

So, it would be helpful to know where the map was downloaded from and where it was downloaded to. Was it downloaded using the Nokia tablet or a PC? Was it downloaded via the "map" application on the Nokia or was it downloaded from the Navicore website onto a PC as a tar/gz file where it needs to be extracted/unzipped?

Now for my question:

Since I'm not using a GPS with the maps on the Nokia, is there a way to remove the prompt asking about the GPS every time I launch the "map" app. on the Nokia?

Thank you.

HELP Please

I too I'm confused. I tried downloading the "USA_West_2007" from the maps selection within the "Map" program. However it keeps failing. So I'm downloading the map from Navicore. What next....
do unzip it, or leave it zipped.
What folder do I put it to make the "Map" program find it?

Any directions on how to manual install this map?

[QUOTE=ebe51;119599]HELP Please

I too I'm confused. I tried downloading the "USA_West_2007" from the maps selection within the "Map" program. However it keeps failing. So I'm downloading the map from Navicore. What next....
do unzip it, or leave it zipped.
What folder do I put it to make the "Map" program find it?

Any directions on how to manual install this map?[/QUOTE


Hello,

You said "So I'm downloading the map from Navicore" but you didn't say where you downloaded it to.

If you downloaded this map "USA_West_2007_3.tar.gz"
(note the extensions) from the Navicore website onto your PC it will need to be unzipped/extracted.

Depending where on your PC you downloaded the file to, there may be a folder named "NavicoreMaps". There should then be a subfolder named "mapdata_USA West" approximately 685MB. This is the folder that needs to go onto the Nokia.

Originally Posted by SeniorDad
I downloaded and extracted the maps from Navicore. Took the folder mapdata_USA West and pasted it to the folder "map" created on my SD card by all the failed download attempts and viola, we've got map.

As you can see others in this post have already given instructions on how to do this.

Good luck !

For anyone running the Navicore Map app for the first time who prefers to put their maps on their external SD card, Lupin3d's instructions seem to be correct and the most effective. Nokia is brain-dead for not providing a way to specify where the maps should go when they ported this app to the N800.

To recap for new OS2008 users running Map for the first time:

1. Select Map from the main program menu to run the Navicore application for the first time.

2. When it displays the Maps window, cancel without downloading any maps.

3. Exit the Map application.

4. In File Manager, you should find a map directory created on your internal SD card. This is where the maps go.

5. If you prefer to have the maps on your external SD card, move the map directory there, deleting it from the internal card. the Navicore Map application will find it there automatically on its next run.