I like to make GPX files on my desktop then download them to my tablet for use by Maemo Mapper. After grumbling that I had to screen-scrape output from gnuite.com instead of "save to file", and having to copy addresses across from Google Maps once I'd found some that worked, I've finally written my own script using the Google API and then parsing KML. It doesn't work with multiple destinations, but it will do "avoid highway" and "walk". I think "Toll" would work on the onscreen map but not in GPX. The interactive map won't let you edit the route graphically, but you can paste in a link from a customized route on Google Maps and convert that to GPX. These limitations may be fixable with more work - I just copied an "advanced directions example" http://gpx.geotags.com/ The site also works for live downloads. I was playing with multi-homing using DNS so it's currently on 2 servers. If anyone wants to clone it onto another server, or take the code and improve it, please ask. I found examples for geocoding addresses in Python on google developers, i.e. generating a lat,long from an address in a URL and giving a developer key. But not for generating directions - only in JavaScript and Flash. So what I'm doing is asking for output from maps.google.com in KML, based on what Google Earth does, then parsing it in Perl. Seems to work. -- Andrew Daviel, TRIUMF, Canada Tel. +1 (604) 222-7376 (Pacific Time) _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
