im having trouble figuring out how to upload some maps to maemo mapper. I used winmapper to download google maps of philadelphia and then i saved it to my memory card. Can someone tell me how i can upload it to maemo mapper so i can use it for offline gps. Thanks

since you can set Maemomapper to download maps from google why not just let MM do it. Philly won't take that long.

yea i could do that but i just want to know how to use maps i download because if i decide to go on a road trip i wont have the internet to download maps of different cities on the fly.

To use the maps while you are OFF-line, you can do the following:

Before your trip and while you are at your home with Internet connectivity, you can download all the maps of the places you will be visiting by defining "areas" (an area is a square defined by its upper left and lower right coordinates -latitude and longitude-) which will be saved to your memory in the NIT.

I follow the following procedure:

Everytime I travel I log into Google Earth in my Linux PC, I do find the coordinates of the area I want to have the maps and then go into my NIT, open Maemo mapper, on the menu go to :
Maps -> Manage maps
Then select the "Area" tab and define the top-left and bottom-right lat and long coordinates.
Now click on the "Zoom" tab and check the level of zoom in (detail) you want, level 0 being the closest to the ground).
Click the OK button.

Maemo mapper will then go to Google Maps (or whatever your selected map server is, like OpenStreet, VE Street, etc.) and download all the maps that correspond the the defined area with all the defined zoom levels you marked.

Bear in mind you many need a large memory card to store all the maps.

An advice: On the menu again: Maps -> Maps -> Manage Repositories it is recommended to change, per each map server (as indicated above), the Cache DB directory to point to your external memory card. As an example, for Google Maps I do have:

/media/mmc1/Maps/GStreet.db

Hope this information helps.

Kind regards.

You don't actually even have to visit google earth to get the coordinates. If you want to do it using maemo mapper you can just zoom out until the displayed map is surrounding the area you want to download and maemo-mapper will already have selected the area for you. You just just select Maps, Manage Maps, click on the zoom tab and select which zoom levels you want to download.
Or you can download along routes, if you look in the documentation, so you don't have to download a whole square of maps (a lot of which you might not want)

Yes, that is true.

The reason I use Google Earth on the PC is because it is much easier to see the whole area on the big screen (as opposed to the N810 little screen) and then just move the mouse to the corners of what I would consider the right area(s) square(s) and just watch the coordinates dynamically on the status bar of GoogleEarth.

Much easier for me to do it that way rather and zooming-in and out on the tablet itself to "guess" the actual coordinates values.

As always, this ends up being a matter of preferences.... The point is that once you get the coordinates of your desired area, you can download that area's maps into Maemo Mapper before the trip and be able to use it while being off-line.

So, anyone know approximately how much space it would take to download street level maps for the whole U.S. using MaemoMapper? A friend is taking a couple of months road trip and wants to know how big of a card he will need. He plans on doing a lot of camping, so internet access will be an issue.

From what I've seen of the maping programs, I don't think the n800 is well suited for his task, but he has one already, so he'd like to get it to work if he can.

That could take quite a bit of space, depending on whether he wants everything (at every zoom level) or not.
I've also recently heard of this, which apparently stores the maps in a more efficient format.

Or you can try RoadMap that uses the same OpenStreetMap's maps, but as vectors. They take very little space.

Does anyone know the recomended zoom levels? I usually go with 10, 8, 6, 4. Was wondering if there was a better set of #s for best overall overlook.