I use the Nokia LD-3W which is a SiRF chipset, but there's no display and no way to select options I'm aware of... Maemo is OK for me... My main issue is retaining the GPS connection -- not to mention the cellular connection around my house as there are big dark areas without coverage. I wish Maemo was better for Point to Point Navigation, rather than "you are here." The NavKit looks cool, but it's going to be $239 here in the US which is a lot considering similar applications on S60 are more like $99 - though annually. Even with a 1GB card, it seems way overpriced. On 4/13/07, Michel Brabants <michel.brabants at euphonynet.be> wrote: > Hello, > > I wasn't downloading maps automatically. I didn't have all the locations > cached. Only around the area where I started I did have the roads cached. I > wouldn't want to enable auto-download when I'm mapping, because it will crash > maemo-mapper when I want to save the track then (I openened 2 bugs at the > maemo-mapper-tracker). It sometimes indeed moves a little bit when standing > still. It will depend on your gps-receiver probably. The sirf-ones have to be > set in a special mode when you're walking (going slowly, ..). Else they may > jump some metres or so sudenly, I thought. Normally mine (mtk-chipset), there > isn't such an option and it should work well always. I want to promote it a > little bit indeed :). Maemo-mapper is a nice program, but it crashes too much > to my taste. I would like to adapt it or write a new program to make it > (also) more suitable for openstreetmap-mapping. > > Greetings, > > Michel > > Op Friday 13 April 2007, schreef Jonathan Greene: > > were you downloading maps on the go over cellular or had you cached in > > advance? > > > > I find Maemo (or perhaps my GPS) seems to think I am moving at times > > when I am sitting still -- like at my desk. With tracks on, I can see > > my location float a bit... otherwise, it's a very cool program. > > > > On 4/12/07, Michel Brabants <michel.brabants at euphonynet.be> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I just had a trip to Frankfurt for my company and took the N800 with > > > me. I used it to map the road and a colleague used it to browse the web > > > for a second (ebay). I looked at the screen from time to time, ... The > > > trip took around 3 hours, but I also used it during the evening to get > > > some food and back and also to go to the hotel. In total maybe around 5 > > > hours for mapping and looking where to go (Tomtom failed at a moment and > > > we didn't know that a reset would help ... and radio-navigationsystem > > > doesn't have precise maps of Germany. So, 2 gps-systems and maemo-mapper > > > to the rescue :).). Anyway, I'm very pleased of battery-time. I didn't > > > use Wlan really yet however. So, I can't comment on the Wlan. For the > > > rest, I'm very happy up till now to have bought the device. > > > > > > Greetings, > > > > > > Michel > > > > > > Op Thursday 12 April 2007, schreef Laurent GUERBY: > > > > FWIW, my globalsat BT-359 GPS linked via bluetooth to my N800 running > > > > maemo mapper on during a whole Paris-Toulouse-Castres TGV (high speed > > > > train) trip ran on one charge taking 19910 data points from > > > > 2007-04-06T08:25:02+02:00 to 2007-04-06T15:11:46+02:00 so a bit less > > > > than 7 hours, resulting .gpx file is 2.6MB for about one data point per > > > > second. I turned the N800 off with one bar left when I reached the end > > > > of my trip. > > > > > > > > I turned on the screen from time to time to see the speed of the train > > > > so this is not a bluetooth only check, and maemo mapper was > > > > running of course. > > > > > > > > The only thing is that I had to switch sound off because top > > > > speed warning in maemo mapper is limited to 300 km/hour and the TGV is > > > > sometimes above it during the trip :). > > > > > > > > All in all I assume bluetooth doesn't consume that much. > > > > > > > > Let us know your experience. > > > > > > > > Laurent > > > > http://guerby.org/blog/ > > > > > > > > On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 12:37 +0900, Brenton Bills wrote: > > > > > Greetings folks, > > > > > > > > > > Well there has been a bit of talk on WIFI power usage for the N800, > > > > > just wondering if it uses less power than bluetooth or the same or > > > > > what? Also wondering if the N800 can listen to bluetooth requests > > > > > while in sleep mode or if that would just kill the battery too quick > > > > > or even if thats possible? I was thinking of seeing how difficult it > > > > > would be to be to push say nagios alerts to the N800 over bluetooth > > > > > and cause it to wake up if it gets such a request? Pushing stuff from > > > > > my computer to the N800 would be cool. > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > > maemo-users mailing list > > > > > maemo-users at maemo.org > > > > > https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > > > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > > maemo-users mailing list > > > > maemo-users at maemo.org > > > > https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > > maemo-users mailing list > > > maemo-users at maemo.org > > > https://maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users > > > > -- Jonathan Greene m 917.560.3000 AIM / iChat - atmasphere gtalk / jabber - jonathangreene at gmail.com Gizmo - JonathanGreene blogs - http://www.atmasphere.net/wp / http://www.maemoapps.com
