Don't maximize the window when GMDL starts and it will be more accurate, other then that, just zoom out more and select only the tiles you need.
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Don't maximize the window when GMDL starts and it will be more accurate, other then that, just zoom out more and select only the tiles you need.
Codaz, others, I'm going to start documenting what works/doesn't work as a map source and why, at:
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Map_This%21#Map_Sources
none of these seem to be compatible:
www.locatienet.nl
www.reperion.com
Garmin Mapsource
map24 non Java
DennyPSP, pod Advanced v http://www.in7ane.com/psp/gmdl0.4.17a.zip mojno pometit Re-encode to JPEG, ili MIB.42 napisal programu s luchshey funktsionalnostyu:
http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=66706
hi,Quote:
Originally Posted by deniska
i am LEON here, would like to know how the gps really work with PSP, instead i already bought the PSP290 but not sure how to set up, i am glad that you can provide step by step set up in details, please check the file the mapthis file have problem, i can't open it with zip file. please advise?
by the way may i know where can i download MALAYSIA map? i live in MALAYSIA. really cool if the gps works with PSP in malaysia
To in7ane
Пасиб я попробовал сделать карту России+Европа с перекодированием в JPEG у меня получилось 550MB хотя в PNG до этого получалось 410 MB не понимаю как так ведь PNG весит раза в 2 больше чем JPEG или в твоей новой версии еще что записывается в файлы карты?
Хотя щас распаковал обе карты и сравнил вес файлов png даже меньше бывает весит чем Jpeg..
ладно как говорится все лучшее уже есть нечего выдумывать..буду PNG пользоваться...за помощь всеравно спасибо...
Are swedish map now working?
JoQ, I think I've finally managed to get Swedish geodata decoded completely, redownload http://www.in7ane.com/psp/gmdl0.4.17a.zip and see http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Map_This%21#Sweden as always bug reports would be appreciated.
Fortjun, Swedish maps from google most definitely are, and geodata should be as well now (you probably want to ask JoQ about where he got the source files from).
DennyPSP, JPEG inogda kompresiruet hushe chem originalnoe PNG, v moih testak poluchaetsya chto v gorodax (mnogo detaley i cvetov) moshno umenshit razmer, no elsi mnogo pustovo mesta (naprimer v kartax pokrivayushieh bolshuyu teritoriyu) to razmer vpolne moshet stat bolshe. Kstati MIB.42 vipustil noviyu versiyu svoyey programi.
Great ! How did you decode Geodata in7ane ? Maybe i can provide you undecoded Geodata from the Netherlands !
hi ppl, i seem to be having a problem with GMDL.
i can get maps for my city alright, and before i do i click the preview button and get exactly that.
but when i try and download my whole country (new zealand) and click the preview button i get nothing but blue! (water).
there doesnt seem to be any explanation for this as no-one has posted this problem. what is wrong? thanks.
Codaz, depends how undecoded it is (if it's encrypted I most probably can't crack it, and even if I could it would not be a good idea in the EU), if it just uses a different grid and/or a funky indexing method like the Swedish I can take a look at it.
skylife, it's due to the date line (you are getting the area on the other side of it since GMDL looks for the minimum x value, to get New Zealand:
Click Advanced
zoom: 12
x: 30
y: 19
min zoom: something reasonable like 4 or 3
Show preview to confirm
Click Pull Tiles (rather than Download The Map)
Hey!
I just wounder where I can find the swedish PBA files. I have the "Iktab.txt" file form "Kartex".
Thanks
krille99, the PBA files can be found on the Kartex CD:
Kartex\Tatorter\CITY NAME\CITY NAME.pba
It is probably a good idea to just search for *.pba and copy all 100 of them into a directory.
[QUOTE=in7ane
Kstati MIB.42 vipustil noviyu versiyu svoyey programi.[/QUOTE]
хм..у меня она потоянно виснет почемуто
thank you in7ane for the explanation, makes perfect sense. will try again later.Quote:
Originally Posted by in7ane
good work mate.:)
edit: awesome, works great, had no idea i was just clipping the international date line. thanks.
Ok, thanks. I see now that I only has the "Kartex" program and not any maps. I must have some maps to get the .pba files, right?Quote:
Originally Posted by in7ane
DennyPSP, esli est malenkaya karta kotoraya visnit, zaloshi ee kudanibud i ya ili MIB.42 posmotrim chto ne tak.
krille99, yes, you need the map files, but I think they should have come together with the Kartex program (you may want to check with JoQ or on http://www.lantmateriet.se/templates...e.aspx?id=1148 )
in7ane, I have now placed the generated "geodata.dat" file to my map directories. But I have a huge problem with the "Adress lookup" function. When I first search a street it find it, but the second time I try to search a street, the search result will be exactly as the first one. To search a new street I must restart "MapThis!". Have I put the "geodata.dat" file wrong or how would I solve this problem. Many thanks and I hope you understand my problematic english. :P
please mirror the file, as it is not on you 'mac' site anymore....
To In7ane
Прива..тут наткнулся на векторные карты для PSP
Как думаешь будет развиваться?
http://translate.google.com/translat...language_tools
In7ane, i have some Geodata for you. It's in DBF format, maybe you can do something with it.
I tried to convert it to CSV or Excel but it failed.
It's for many country's. Latitude/Longitude is provided, even as NMEA data.
Hope it helps. It's all i can do for you at this moment.
krille99, yes, you only need the geodata.dat file - the rest are just temporary files that you can delete. About getting the same result on the second search - I think this happens if the second search doesn't find anything (try searching for something that has definitely been found before). If it happens even if the second search should return results, can you post exactly what you are searching for 1st and 2nd and the geodata.dat (or what the geodata was made out of, eg. the whole set of 100 pba's and the .txt).
codesrcool, http://www.in7ane.com/psp/ where .16b is a stable version and .17a is the one I'm working on.
DennyPSP, interesniy proekt - no nushni ESRI maps, tak chto skoree vsego budet mnogo piratstva kart. Voobschem horosho chto sorevnovaniye program budet.
Codaz, I'll try and take a look at it at some point next week.
@ in7ane:
Decrypting/cracking geodata of the Netherlands wont be a big issue I think :P
The Dutch government is gonna release it all in 2009 to the public, but well, we psp guys cant wait that long :P
Ok MAJOR BIG NEWS onto Geodata
I talked to the guys of Openstreetmap. They provide free geodata from all over the world. So far 5% of the whole world is covered. Ok that isn't much but remember it's a freeware non-paid project with just 30-40 volunteers.
This is how to grab geodata for you city:
1 Download the whole planet from http://planet.openstreetmap.org/ Download the one low on the list, so that you have the newest data (don't pick 2006 :) )
2 Extract it, it becomes 4 gb !!
3 Download the extracting script: svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/utils/planetosm-excerpt-area.pl
or svn.openstreetmap.org/applications/utils/osm-extract/planetosm-excerpt-area.pl
4 How to use the perl script: planetosm-excerpt-area.pl -bbox 54,-1.5,55,-1.4 planet.osm.xml > excerpt.osm
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Remember to: install several perl modules and play with the lib path
Disadvantages : Getting a lot of invalid line errors, but i'm not using a planet.osm.xml
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And since AND donates the Netherlands which is 100% complete, you have good geodata. More countries will follow !
Good luck with it In7ane and others !!!
I converted it into csv but cant get it to work in gmdl. Maybe convertion sucks but.... I'll keep trying :PQuote:
Originally Posted by Codaz
Here's the csv file of the netherlands I converted.
Falafelut2k4 and others :)
The Netherlands Geodata file is very weak. It contains only a few cities. Good job you converted it but now it contains an error :(
This is what the colums mean if you open up the file in MS Excel:
A : Country
B: Country sign e.g US for United states, here it is NL
C: Postal code and telephone prefix
D: Postal code
E: City name
F: Part of City
G: Nothing
H: Lat min
I: Lon min
J: Lat max
K: Lon max
L: Unknown
M: Unknown
N: Unknown
O: Unknown
P: Unknown
Q: Unknown
R: Unknown
S: Unknown
T: Countryname
U: Unknown
V: Location of city (north east south west)
W: Unknown
X: Province
Y: Unknown
Z: Secondary name of Province (e.g Las Vegas is in the Desert :) )
But it's all i could find free legally available. Soon i can get a 700 mb file of the Netherlands which contains all streets etc.
That will be in 3-4 months. AND must first donate the data to Openstreetmap.org, then they must implement that and after that i will have to learn how to extract it from the 4gb datafile as i posted in my tutorial up here.
I can't get the Perl script to work, In7ane can you help ?!
As falafelut2k4 says - it looks like there's only regional information in the DBF files (FoxPro will open them if anyone wants to take a look).
Codaz, I don't know Perl so I can't be much help with the scripts. I've done some stuff (creating from the Canadian road network) with OSM files, and as I recall they are sufficiently straightforward to write your own parser that would process/load the planet.osm line by line (I doubt that a 4GB xml file can be loaded into memory at once). If you are going to write a OSM -> geodata load, keep in mind that it's something that should be reasonably easy to rerun every few month as more data is added to openstreetmap. Alternatively I can try and get around to doing it eventually, if so, does anyone see any reasons for not loading the OSM into Oracle as an intermediary step? And, any ideas on how to do city/province/country names (I think the OSM file will just give us road names and lat/lon, not what region it's in or house numbers).
In7ane
Can you tell mi how I can calibrate custom maps ina GMDL and how to use "Comparsion source" in custom map window or can you give me link to post which can help me.
Thans a lot :)
In7ane,
Too bad you can't help on Perl scripts. But it's VERY good that you already worked with OSM.
I see no complaints to port it to Oracle first, you guys ? Go ahead with it If i knew Oracle i would help you out.
Second question, i provided the DBF files which are a bit weak, Falafelut2k4 tried to convert them to CSV as you asked.
Any luck with them to work them out in GMDL ?
Because there isn't a way to proper import CSV data into GMDL ?
It isn't that hard to implement it i think, but you have to have a proper format in which the CSV files should exist, that number of colums providing that info. Otherwise the CSV file is useless. It is too hard to program a feature into GMDL which calculates the needed information from a CSV file. Especially when the CSV file is very large.
So to be short, are you working on a definitive way to implement CSV into GMDL or something else ?
Hi.
I have problem whit Google Maps Download and Global Map Download Tool.
I have pc xp sp2 when i start the map tools
i get this 0x0000135 error what is the error?
Can any now.
Thanx
Hi.
It is ok now i just update the windows framework. :)
Bumping up to 0.4.17b due to changes in maps.local.live and to draw a line under various other small changes.
http://www.in7ane.com/psp/gmdl0.4.17b.zip
Full list of changes from 0.4.16b:
Fully decoded Swedish geodata
Google directions option to avoid highways (multistage, and manually dragged directions work as well)
Toporama auto render now uses the latest version of MapCruncher, and allows to specify a drive other than C to look for it
Option to convert tiles to JPEG while downloading (but you are much better off using GPSFS_util by MIB.42)
Sounds are on by default (directions), see .zip in GMDL for mac scripts to create message mp3s
Custom geodata (from a CSV file), now with ; delimiter support
YUM Assembler for MapCruncher (contact me if you want a walkthrough) - see: http://www.in7ane.com/psp/posts/yum_assembler.jpg
Option to save directions at various encodings and UPPERCASE (eg. Default and UPPER for the Russian Map This!)
Changes to keep up to date with the maps.live.com update
icpart, the best way is probably to use MapCruncher (free from Microsoft Research), GMDL can then use it as a source: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Map_Thi...MapCruncher.29
Codaz, I'll make some more tweaks with the CSV import (it will work with large files right now, but creating them will be the problem). Ultimately getting the OpenStreetMap planet.osm data processed looks like a better idea - so that'll be the main geodata focus from now on.
Thanks a lot for your answer in7ane!
GREAT update In7ane :)Quote:
Originally Posted by in7ane
But i tried to make a simple csv file with geodata i know so i can try to lookup my street and the streets around my home.
How to build such a thing ? What should the CSV contain and in what order ?
And for the JPG converting thing, why is it better to use GMDL_util by MIB ?
Isn't it better to straightly make the maps fine ?
Otherwise you download a 2gb map which will take almost a day. And then spend another day converting it to lower quality.
Wouldn't it be nice to auto download in lower quality ? Or is that a very difficult or unpossible technical issue ?
Also GREAT that you are now concentrating on Geodata from OSM. Still i couldn't believe that you found Swedish geodata, where was that :)
Hmm, still if i download the Benelux, so that's Belgium, Netherlands an Luxemburg the map will be 32737 mb, so 32 GB ! WOW, or isn't this true ?
You can fit whole planet on 32Mb stick - it just depends on the zoom range (the amount of detail that you require)Quote:
Originally Posted by Codaz
Hi I live in Toronto and I got a question regarding geodata. i can't get GMDL to generate geodata and i get an error when i set my minimum zoom to 2 (from advance menu) if I let the minimum zoom to zero it would generate the geodata. Does this mean that geodata only works if you set the minimum to 0.
I would appreciate it from anyones help
Codaz, CSV format: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Map_This!#Custom as for quality conversions, MIB.42's GPSFS_util has a lot more functionality.
sleekyboy24, geodata should definitely still work with a min zoom of 2, can you post exactly what you are doing (is GeoData checked and Canada selected?) and when/what error you get.
To In7ane
Прива..ты как всегда всех радуешь...я тут в России благодаря тебе раздаю карты городов кто что просит...есть время то делаю...
У меня вопрос как пользоваться твоей новой фичей для Мапкранчера..Они выпустили новую версию - теперь можно привязывать карты в ней, т.е. вводить координаты и т.п. супер вобщем...
Hi there!
I've installed mapthis and it's great. Thank you very much to the creator. I would like to have the geogata.dat for Spain or at least for Madrid. How can I get it?
Thank you very much!
In7ane is now working on the geodata of the whole planet. This is provided using Openstreetmap.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fadi
Have a look yourself. www.openstreetmap.org
DennyPSP, popitka instrukciy na http://www.in7ane.com/psp/manual/YUM_Assembler.pdf i noviy http://www.in7ane.com/psp/gmdl0.4.18a.zip (dlya CSV razbitih ; )