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I'm new to .deb files, and my attempts at dependencies aren't working out yet.

Install wget from the application manager. It is under "web" since it is a file loader. zmapper uses it to download the map files.

I don't have a launcher. The statusbar proc launcher works, and I prefer:

osso-xterm -e "sh /usr/share/zmap/zmap.sh"

as the command line, though you can run it directly in an xterm. However you won't see it download the map files so might wonder why it appears to freeze. Usually you will see wget downloading something like one of the maps for a nearby county.

You will need the /media/mmc1 (external) SD card, and a zmap directory will be created with a file bounds.dat.gz and the map files. It contains the code to automatically download and convert the Tiger map files, but for now it will first try to download the preprocessed map files.

These maps contain roads (red or black), railroads (orange), power lines (violet), rivers/streams (blue), other (green), city/county boundaries (dark yellow), cities (yellow), parks (green), lakes (blue), airports (gray), military (light red).

They do not yet contain points of interest or text annotations, which is planned - and the code has some infrastructure for it. But the lines and shapes are all there.

A top level page with links for each state is at:
http://www.zdez.org/maps.html
Each state links to a list of counties for the state if you want to preload the card with nearby counties (in the zmap directory). The program will automatically download as you zoom out and scroll.

(I'm working on better backgrounding, graphics, annotations, etc).

It needs the standard map program installed for /usr/libexec/navicore-gpsd-helper which starts the internal or BT GPS. You may need to manually disconnect a bluetooth GPS for the GPS connection to automatically restart.

http://www.zdez.org/zmapper-0.1.deb for an install - it does not contain the dependency for wget, but it won't download maps without it.

http://www.zdez.org/zmapper-source.tgz for the GPL source

Keystrokes (you need the n810 or a BT keyboard):

"<" or "," zooms in, ">" or "."zooms out, Z resets the zoom
joypad left/right/up/down move. Space returns to origin or GPS.
M toggles satellite display. T will "tag" (remember the current location for next startup).

It displays GPS info and your travel track (and should display kismet detected APs)

This is the first alpha - I plan on porting it to be a full application, but before I spend a lot of time I would like some feedback.

Looks very nice!

By hand (desktop Firefox) I tried to pull down the CA/San Francisco map from

http://www.zdez.org/06075.msp.gz -- but I get a 404 error :-(

Should everything be available or just specific states/cities at the moment?

Thanks for working on this, I always liked the look of your Zaurus version (never had a gps before to try it with though).

I just put up the site (zdez.org) so the DNS might not be right yet, and tried a batch upload of the files, so one or more may have failed without me noticing. I will try checking later today to see if everything is there and will fix it.

I'm uploading the missing maps now. Basically A-M. They were there, but in a zdez directory.

Note if you have QT3, you can get it going (nad autodownload the maps) under Linux or cygwin.

I can download the pre-generated maps now :-)

Initial impressions, it works! The "nothing happening on screen whilst dloading maps" is disconcerting (ditto for failures not displayed in the GUI) but expected for a demo.

There appears to be an unzip dependency too (not sure why as the files are gzip) if zmapper fails to dload the pre-converted files. So far not an issue for me but I happened to see it when experimenting without the required memory card in /media/mmc1.

One interesting thing (and maybe this is Tiger related) the roads show up as single skinny single pixel lines so my position was off away. Compared with the "built in" Map app which shows the roads a "fat".

I couldn't get T to work, it kept re-starting at the default map location.

GPS is left on after quiting.

One thing that would be very useful would be support for http://www.openstreetmap.org/ files, they just completed tiger imports for the US so this would give access to (hopefully) more modern maps as you can edit the maps (e.g. add one way street information).

Ok, all the negatives are out the way. It performed pretty well, I wasn't sure what the speed would be like but speed was usable and my location came up (as I had an internet connection).

Looks very promising.

If it can't find the prebaked map, it attempts to get the original file from the Census Bureau website and convert it, which can take several minutes.

The census database is off in places. In some places way off (I 469 around Ft. Wayne IN comes to mind). Other places I'm on the same pixel

1. Remember this is still a Qt3 app and is running using those libraries, which is not quite emulation but not native GtK, so I want to port before I fix the graphics.

2. It is actually rerendering the entire screen every update. I know this isn't efficient, but unless you zoom out to multi-counties it is usually done before the next (1Hz) GPS update. I plan on fixing this too.

I've checked out openstreetmap - I think my tweaks of the census data are better, but I probably spent more time on it. I'll see if something can be done for a collaboration.

There is a source update that compiles under ubuntu (or probably most other linuxes) and cygwin under windows as long as you have Qt3 developer stuff installed.

http://zdez.org/zmapper-0.12-source.tgz

(It also compiles for the Nokia if you can find the Qt3 stuff, which I haven't so far for scratchbox).

http://www.zdez.org

You will need to install wget or it won't be able to get any maps automatically (and I haven't figured out how to make the deb work right for it). wget should be in the application install menu.

You will need the separate Qt3 libraries (Zaurus compatibility) also at that link.

Some files have moved so deinstall any earlier versions.

It is stand-alone and uses the existing map navicore-gpsd-helper to start the GPS.

It will automatically download maps. You can launch an xterm to look for "wget". It takes 10 seconds to a few minutes. You can also download and preload maps into the zmap directory of your internal or external cards (it will automatically create these).

It ends up in the Extras category, but otherwise launches like other apps.

(The initial map it will download is for Wall, SD, as it is only 700k, but you won't get any map until this occurs. When the GPS locks in, it will download your local maps, zoom out to have it download more adjacent counties).

0.15 is out. Adds a font dialog, 10 bookmarkable locations, save map image, remembers the last view when restarting (if you don't swap memory cards).

Remember to install wget from the installer first.

http://www.zdez.org