Windows maps download tool for MapThis! by in7ane

[WulfP]

Great tool, very powerful, but not easy to understand (took me more than 7.5 hours...)

I´m a newbie and desperately looking for a possibility, to get Lat/Lon-Coordinates of the 4 Edge-Tiles of the downloaded Map. I need this data for the calibration of the map. Coords.txt doesn´t help.

Is there alternatively an option to load a map via a given Lat/Lon-Rectangle?

Sorry if this question ist not new, but I couldn´t find this information anywhere.

[deniska]

Great tool, very powerful, but not easy to understand (took me more than 7.5 hours...)

I´m a newbie and desperately looking for a possibility, to get Lat/Lon-Coordinates of the 4 Edge-Tiles of the downloaded Map. I need this data for the calibration of the map. Coords.txt doesn´t help.

Is there alternatively an option to load a map via a given Lat/Lon-Rectangle?

Sorry if this question ist not new, but I couldn´t find this information anywhere.

Perhaps this site can help you understand the google mapping system: http://mapki.com/wiki/Knowledge_Base

It also has a bunch of tools to link tiles to coordinates, etc...

[JoQ]

in7ane, i tried it a little more yesterday. It searches kinda good, but shouldnt it be showing road-directions? A line on the street where i should go? Couse now it is the "flypath" it is showing, as a white line (btw, a tip is to change the lines color, can't see it very well).

Thanks!

[WulfP]

Thanks for your reply! Didn´t know this KB.
Now I understand GM much better.

Especially the GM-Debugger

http://www.ponies.me.uk/maps/dbgmap.html

helped me a lot!

Finally I found on the same site
http://www.ponies.me.uk/maps/GoogleTileUtils.java

which supplies functions to transform GM-Coordinates to Lat/Lon and much more!

Now it should be easy to complete my script to export downloaded maps to Trekbuddy and use them on my mobile phone.

[coach777]

in7ane I've tried to translate POI to DAT ,
but received the error message that input string was not in a correct format.
I've tried in dec and dms formats but still have error.
What is wrong?

[coach777]

in7ane
Thanks a lot.
Now it works correctly but I have not understood
why before a name of street i must put 1 and
why search of a combination of symbols like in SEARCH POI MENU does not work?

[in7ane]

coach777, 1 for street numbers is only needed until the updated search makes it into the release version: http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/sho...=54109&page=20

I'm stripping out all symbols for geodata to make entry faster (, _ - ( ) etc.) - let me know if you want them left in.

[Quicksilversvt]

When adding Canadian Geodata to an existing map, do I need to check off all of the boxes that come up after I hit "Select for Map"? If so, why not add a feature that lets you select all? If not then disregard my ignorance.

Still the BEST homebrew combination EVER!!

[telleslucia]

Hi, I'm so glad to begin today. So, I need some help. I bought the GPS 290, but I don't know which program is better to use ...

[pspesto]

hi,

Ok it's very confusing everything. For instance version 0.497 said to replace Eboot and system yet it didn't tell that you had to have a previous version.

This really destroyed my expectations. I thought it would be put those two folder under /game150 and work outta the box. It turns out that I need to do a lot of manual work. For me it's fine but I can't find a place where it says FIRST TIME RUN instructions. All those assumed previous knowledge of stuff.

Could someone please tell give me a quick guide to get it up and running?

Apparently I need two things to get started:

1- Download the Map: from a variety of sources such as google, yahoo, VE, WMS, etc.

2- Get the GeoData: the 30mb pack and 500MB pack. ( I am presuming these add the coordinates, zip codes, gas stations and so on?)

Where does statcan_rnf_v2.zip 30MB on in7ane.com fit it in all this? Is this for Canada or something? I am in USA.

With these two things I can start in this order:

1- Download the Map.
2- Browse.
3- Preview. (doing this I got 5 pictures)
4- Test. (doing this it showed this "progress: 15% - 860 out of 5460 now at zoom 2x (got 0)"

Then I close the app at 15%.

why are three dirs?
site dir, SET, ->GPSFS
And above set dir again?

Where should I put this?
http://www.in7ane.com/psp/usgs_tiger/NY_county_borders

By the way, for a quick run, can I discard the steps of POI and Directions?

What does GPSFS stand for? I wish there was a description of all the terms that the programs uses.


Ok thanks and sorry if this is a confusing post. I would appreciate if someone could guide me a little bit.