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Hi in7ane,
I noted that the maps downloaded by GMDL 5.09a are being much smaller than the estimated size shown in the tile view. I downloaded the map for Austin/TX which in the tile view GMDL estimated the size of about 800 MB and, after the download has finished, I've got a map with about 162MB. Is it normal? Have you applied some compression method for the GPSFS files.
Thanks for your great application.
is this thing still available?
i cant get it ....
hi Insane, I can't send you a private message so I write it here.
Some iPhone users are sad because maps cache generated by GMDL are no longer compatible with 2.2 firmware. Database tables must had been modified.
Could you make a new version to support 2.2 iTouch Firmware ?
You'll find new maps caches here :
http://code.google.com/p/gmdl/issues/detail?id=1
No, tables are intact. It's the tile size. Now it is 128x128px, not 64x64 as before.
BTW, you can get converter form old to new format here (source code included).
rnelias, the discrepancy happens in areas where there are not a lot of streets at lower zoom levels (since the tiles are blank and take up less space). Right now I calculate the estimated size based on the tiles displayed onscreen - I'm still thinking of an elegant solution to sampling the whole stack for a better estimate.
Kheo, due to exams it will probably be December, or maybe January, before I get a chance to modify GMDL for the 2.2 firmware tile database format. in the meantime there is the converter liked to by Redart. It also looks like the converter's author is planning to release a much more user-friendly tool specifically to download and build iPhone maps (this may also be faster if downloaded tiles are cut up and dumped directly into the database, skipping the file and the GPSFS stages in GMDL).
CaN someone provide another download link ???
the one Nieko posted doesnt seem to be working
and does this work with Windows Vista???
I have amazing problem with map of china
When i try download map and minimalize the map enough to see all china and click preview i always see usa instead of china thats reallly weird.
When i try to use smaller map i see every country around china but when i try china i see usa again.
Simple question WTF. How i can download full map of china any hints ? :)
Thank you
Hi
I'm totally new to this and I'm not a gamer. I'm trying to download / save google maps to my PDA Dell Axim v51 for offline viewing and or GPS navigation.
I'm not sure if anyone can or wants to help me with this, but I have tried to get "Global Map download tool" to work on my Vista PC, with the following problems:
1. No Graphics and No Tiles are selected when I try to "Download the map"
2. Something about changing my IP address or what for several hours
3. A text file stating a problem with WMS Service
And What is GPSFS? Is that the file that I use to view the maps offline??
Any help is appriciated
Tyhee007
CONGRATULATIONS,
In7ane, it's a great work, I'm really surprised. Just a small question... is there an "easy" way to generate a calibration file for each tile? The GPSFS files are not explained in deep in the wikibooks, so it's a bit frustrating having your great software just for PSP
(I was thinking in Ozi and the like). Surely a deeper study and a bit of rev-eng may end with a simple script to generate the cal files needed, but perhaps you have done something into this direction.
Regards,
Carlos
Hello IN7ANE,
thank you for this amazing software you have written, it is really fantastic.
I have two question for you.
QUESTION 1: The transport company of Montreal (STM), has map of the city with all the bus routes and metro stops on it. They provide it in a 4.5 meg .pdf format ( http://www.stm.info/info/reseau2008.pdf ) that has enough definition to be zoomed to street level. I would like to have access to it from my iPod but the file is to big to be loaded as a pdf. Is there any way of turing this pdf into maps tiles and then iphone maps cache?
QUESTION 2: I have made maps of various cities and I have even me a much less zoomed in map of the Eastern US and Canada. About 1 gig with a surprising level of detail (it's for all the highways and such). I have yet to see if my iPod could handle it. I will be making a map of Western US and Canada and I would like to know if there is a way I could combine the two maps. Is there anyway of overlay the smaller city maps in the big ones?
Thanks again! Keep up the awesome work!
Fadi
Hi in7ane,
Well I try one more time....
Is it possible to view the maps downloaded via Global Map download tool (the GPSFS files) on a PDA (Dell Axim)? If so what map viewing software do I need?
Thanks for any replies,
Tyhee 007
i try to create a map but i cant get the program to increase the size of the map in preview 1 it stays at 4x4 i need a big map for my area thanks in advance
Jetsfan,Quote:
Originally Posted by jetsfan0786
I am having the same problem. Regardless of how far in/out I zoom or the location I try to capture, I am presented with only a very zoomed in 4x4 image when I attempt to do preview1x or preview2x. Please let us know if you find out what is causing this. Thanks!
AdamRav, http://www.in7ane.com/psp/gmdl.html refreshes to download the latest version of GMDL ( http://www.in7ane.com/psp/ sometimes also has the absolute latest alpha versions gmdl###.a.zip ).
pete69, a full map of China will be too big to download. The effect you are seeing is due to tiles on the right of the dateline being onscreen and getting picked-up - scroll further to the left (or click Advanced, Get Numbers and play around with the values).
tyhee007, I do not know on any other apps that read GPSFS, as for the download problems - it looks like Google blocked you for downloading too many tiles.
FFR, there are too many tiles to meaningfully tie them in Ozi, you can however Set Dir, click view and then GPSFS -> GE(S)O ... which will generate a Google Earth overlay (with each tile having lat/lon in the corresponding kml file) - the tile structure is in the Google Maps projection (conversion to lat/lon is well documented elsewhere). You can also Save 8192x8192 tiles from there, and tie them in Ozi (merge in Photoshop first if you end up with more than one), the corners are the same as of the top 4 tiles in the tilestack (top kml file).
mo.mashi, 1. Convert the pdf to a PNG, then follow the instructions at http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Global_..._Map_.28old.29 to create the GPSFS files which you can then convert to the iPhone format (let me know if you have any problems, this is quite useful so maybe I should document it better). 2. Theoretically yes, but in practice it will be too flaky to work (Maps.app loses the cache if you ever go outside the area/zoom).
jetsfan0786, rando, the sticking of zoom at a zoomed in level is due to Google Maps caching tiles, click refresh and then only zoom in to the area (what happens is if you start zoomed in and then zoom out the zoomed in tiles are still getting picked up to determine the location).
Thanks for the feedback in7ane. I opened my regular browser and logged out of google. I then re-opened gmdl. This solved the problem where only a 4x4 block was being downloaded.
tyhee007, I use GMDL, also for psp and Mapthis! and for make maps for Mio p350.
After dowload a map for psp, you can click on "view" and then on botton "save 8192x8192".
at the end of the process, you have, in the same directory of map for Mapthis!, one or more big images .png or . jpg that you can calibrate and then use with two software that I prefer: Memorymap and Pocket Compegps.
Memorymap use files.tif at 256 color, Compegps use maps made from files.jpg more fine to look.
Theese two software, that run under Windows mobile, unfortunately are not free.
Regards
hi, i have downloaded the latest version of gmdl. i used the new suport for google mapmaker. i noticed that the map creted by gmdl is not identical, some streets and land marks were not included in the gmdl map. thank you for a geate app it is relly helpful.
Hi there. I was wondering about something and did not have the time to read through 110 pages of posts to see if the question had been answered =P.
Is there a way to generate a database of residential POI's? i.e.: From house to house? I wanted to get the full commercial GPS functionality out of these awesome programs if it's at all possible. I would rather have this than going to the trouble of generating a single directions file every time I needed to get from my house to a friend's (or perhaps one of HIS friend's houses).
Is there a way to do this through the geodata that I'm just not seeing? I know it downloads the addresses but it can't plot routes.
Hello there... congratulations for the GMDL, it's awesome.
I've been looking for geodata from Brasil and couldn't find it. So, I'm trying to make my own geodata file to use with MapThis! at the PSP. I've made a csv with these entries:
-26,3611103; -48,8101808; RUA AMABILE SEBALDI; JOINVILLE (SC)
-26,3586086; -48,8104450; RUA HENRIQUE WALMOR LENNERT; JOINVILLE (SC)
-26,3611196; -48,8114431; RUA LEOPOLDO VOOS; JOINVILLE (SC)
-26,3611866; -48,8101941; RUA SUELI MACHADO CARVALHO; JOINVILLE (SC)
-26,3601466; -48,8113671; RUA ANTONIA CORREA VIEIRA; JOINVILLE (SC)
-26,3554195; -48,8193221; RUA ABAETE; JOINVILLE (SC)
and converted to geodata.dat file. I put it at the PSP but I couldn't be able to find any of these entries. I've tried to type anything in the field "Street". There's something wrong with the entries?
Thanks!!!
hard to say, i think beginner like me to use that thing very hard to use that program
Hi. I'd like to know if my PSP 3000 with 5.03 can run a Mapthis v0.5.20? Some restrictions?
hello in7ane
there is a problem with directions for virtual earth now
when i try to create directions with virtual earth same problem
please fix it
thnksssss
i will wait for new version
i agreeQuote:
Originally Posted by forumacc
there is a problem at directions at virtual earth
please help us..
Hello In7ane,
Yesterday I tried to download a map by clicking on goole terrain, but the map I get is equal to google mapps, ie there are the streets and other indications but without shadow of terrain and level curves. Is an only problem for me or that option does not work on gmdl?
Good bye and thank you in any case, your program is wonderful.
Regards
Hi Guys,
I've read some posts about that but don't know if it was solved already. I'm trying to download hybrid google maps but once I start the process I only can see Google maps (only the streets) tiles at the directories.
I tried yesterday from home in a Vista PC and I'm trying now in a Windows 2000 but seems the same behavior. Does anyone knows what can I do to download the hybrid tiles and see it in my PSP Map This software?
Thanks in advance.
Alex
I have the same problem :(Quote:
Originally Posted by CLAUDIOGPS
ok,'
so im using this to ma maps for my area, but why in the world is it so slow?? i mean, ive had it running for 1 hours already and it is at 27% done?? i have a dual core 3.6 ghz system, its like its using 3% of my system cpu.....
and the maps final size is supposed to be like 2330 mb....
you can significantly trim the file size and d/l time by dropping most detailed zoom levels (there are options in the program to do that.Quote:
Originally Posted by ginnz
Hello!
I am a Chinese user. GOOGLE map of China recently updated, very detailed in all aspects. GMDL positioning operation to China. Click Preview to see anything, and how to do ah. I tried GMDL0.5.09b \ GMDL0.5.10a will not work.
Hello!
I am a Chinese user. GOOGLE map of China recently updated, very detailed in all aspects. GMDL positioning operation to China. Click Preview to see anything, and how to do ah. I tried GMDL0.5.09b \ GMDL0.5.10a will not work.
I'm having a similar problem as swkwwe except i'm just trying to use plain (non-chinese) google. Even that preview is not working for me. Only the Satilite setting does but again only for zoom levels 3-7.
All i care about is getting a normal map (never mind geodata for now). But the preview always shows up blank and not a single image is downloaded from google. The program DOES work for some of the other map sources such as yahoo for example...
any suggestions? maybe google changed something on there map site which broke GMDL...
i have the same problem with psyoptix when i preview, nothing shows up and when i try to download, no parts are downloaded. i copied the link of one preview image and pasted it to explorer. google error page came up and told me google has detected an automated something. so i figure google knows we download and it has blocked it.can someone help?
Are you using a translator?Quote:
Originally Posted by swkwwe
Anyway, I having the same problem too, the GMDL cant work anymore.
GMDL 0.5.10b
http://www.in7ane.com/psp/gmdl.html
iPhone screen can now convert maps to xGPS format - works with 1.2.7 - choose the (new) option
Goole Maps fixed once again (including for China)
I will try to get on to the remaining issues and questions in the near future.
Thanks!Quote:
Originally Posted by in7ane
Can be used. I have started to download a Google map.
thank you thank you thank you...
thanx :)
Not sure if i'm using it right, but doesn't look like I can download the hybrid data for China (from the google.cn page). It seems to only support hybrid from google.com page, which doesn't have hybrid data in China.
how can i get maps from map24? there are no option to select it, do i need something else?