Windows maps download tool for MapThis! by in7ane

[deniska]

You probably din't put the icon images in your map's folder

[Blac OrKhiD]

im not sure where the icons are located.
ive been seaching up and down this forum
there doesnt seem to be any info on how
to load poi properly with icons

[deniska]

sample icons are bundled with gmdl27.zip (linked in the begining of this thread)
POI file format is also described in README file in MapThis distribution...

[Blac OrKhiD]

O.K. I got it now. i just ordered psp speakers and a audio jack. im going to experiment with my data cable to see if i can get sound.

[deniska]

BTW, I found a bug with display of 512x512 maps..(it will display them 128x maps)...
I'll release a patch, once I get to my work pc..

[fokia]

Isn't possible to parallel download of several maps at the same time? Since there's a button to get from several sources in one click why not do it at the same time?

[in7ane]

Deniska, congratulations!!!

Continuing with the almost daily releases for those who want to be running the very latest version. There are some small improvements (automatically creating missing corners, deleting empty folders, creating a log of errors if tiles are missing, etc.), but otherwise not much.

You can run multiple instances of the application at the same time and download maps (with different names) at the same time that way. The code is a bit messy - relying on values in the text boxes throughout the download process, so until I get around to cleaning that up use the multiple instance approach.

vibez, thanks for those speed camera POI - looking at them on the map in the M25 area is scary

Someone asked if there could be a feature to stitch the tiles together - the answer is no, since that would serve no purpose with MapThis!, and Google have already shut someone down for that. But I'm sure there are other tools out there that do.

screenshot:
http://homepage.mac.com/f.levin/psp/gmdl28.jpg

source and exe (in /bin/debug/):
http://homepage.mac.com/f.levin/psp/gmdl28.zip

Deniska, could you check ps2dev when you have time - about the NASA sources.

[fokia]

Deniska, congratulations!!!

You can run multiple instances of the application at the same time and download maps (with different names) at the same time that way. The code is a bit messy - relying on values in the text boxes throughout the download process, so until I get around to cleaning that up use the multiple instance approach.

Haven't tried that (didn't cross my mind...) but would be much better do it in the same app...

About POI's, don't want to push my luck but, couldn't you include a POI converter for different POI sources (other devices) to PSP/MapThis format? Maybe DENISKA can make some concessions here and change MapThis POI format to get closer from other formats promptly available in the web for several devices...

Just thoughts...

If anyone like to take a peek at other formats one can find here (bellow) for TOMTOM and ROUTE66 (Portuguese, though) has a lot of info about radars in Iberic Peninsula - useful for Spanish Friends...

[deniska]

good stuff!
A few comments...
Can you change the 512 size limit to 1024? I think the current tile naming scheme (XXX/NxXXXYYY.png) should be able to support it just fine. Basically, you keep mandatory 3 decimal places for X & Y if they are less than 1000 and put an extra digit if they are >1000. ie, you can have following combinations: XXXX/NxXXXXYYY ; XXXX/NxXXXXYYYY or XXX/NxXXXYYYY
I think, in all these cases there should not be any overlapping....

I PM'd you about the NASA maps - I need an algorithm to go from lan/lon to tile # and back to make the positioning work...Let me know if you have it...
Did not get a chance to play with the sample you gave me yet...

[vibez]

The thing is with POI formats, is that Deniska's format is more flexible than others that I have seen, because it allows 2 description fields. Most only allow the 1. So I would prefer to keep the format we already have.

I'm sure there must be an open source POI convertor somewhere on the net that we can hack to convert existing POI into MapThis! POI format