Mark wrote: > On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 3:39 PM, Joshua Layne <joshua@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>>> That's my problem with it. The app itself seems to work fine, but I >>>> can't find a way to load any maps to it other than the extremely dated >>>> version that it finds. >>>> >> try using getmaps - that's what roadmap for maemo uses to get the OSM maps >> - you should be able to use the coordinates from the control panel cache >> and bound it within a bounding box. >> >> > > That's not very user-friendly: if you want maps for someplace you've > never been, you have to look up the coordinates first, then hope you > get all the areas you need. That actually goes for your home area as > well, and you'll have to make multiple downloads to get the the > relevant areas without too much of what you don't need. > I agree, but there is also a 'download current view' option - just doesn't work so well if you don't have a good 'current view' - which is what I was responding to Marius about (he was in a building with no GPS fix). I would love to see it get to the point where you can set an autodownload flag (similar to maemo mapper) and just have it automagically get maps (I usually have a tethered connection on the road), but it is progressing... > Wishful thinking: it would be great if there was some way to download > maps by city, region (state, province, etc) or country rather than > hard bounding boxes. Very few cities are perfect circles or squares. > :-) I imagine that's up to OSM, though, and they would probably have > to revamp the I/O mechanism & specs to deal with it. > You can download county-by-county for the US, but the maps are not based on OSM, rather on the census data. > Although I would personally like to be able to download the "world" > package and have everything accessible at once. I don't know if > there's any way to load that into Roadmap... > roadmap doesn't load much more than what it needs into memory - if you zoomed out to view the world (not sure that has ever been successful in roadmap :P) then it could load all of it - it would just be discarding 99% of the information at that point (declutter) again though, I am primarily a user, sometimes a tester and rarely a submitter of really ugly patches to the project, so my voice is not definitive. There are probably features I still don't know about. If you get past the map issues, there are a lot of cool things you can do with the UI, I'd be happy to share the config that I use for roadmap on the N810 (far from the defaults) Rgds, josh _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
