Map This! v0.4

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Originally Posted by JingYou

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Map This v.4 is solid, but aesthetically poor.. =P
gmdl software is buggy, but figurable =D

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Well, I am not a graphics designer... At this stage I am still concentrating on the features, rather than the interface and design...
BTW, you should be able to change most of the graphics/fonts, etc... as long as you keep the right proportions...

gmdl suggestions should be forwarded to in7ane, as he is the creator of this software.
Personally, I think that gmdl is not that buggy, but rather has some learning curve - I wish someone would write a tutorial on how to use it... and what caveats to watch for...

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Originally Posted by A Fn NOOB

The sooner you can get MapThis to work with Sony's gps, the sooner you will be on Slashdot,Endagadget,HackaDay, etc!

Fun,fun,fun

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I am planning on getting the original GPS unit from Sony in the near future. If you want to speed up the event, feel free to donate a couple of bucks towards this...(some one started a donation thread in the disccussion part of the forums).. ;-)

Hi. I am lost. Im from slovakia but here ist PSP not so popular.
So I looking information here.
My english is not so good and i am lost.
I want GPS and now i dont now if i need holux 240, or holux 236 or witchone and witch map this.
And big problem. if its possible download Some Slovakia maps. pleas help me somebody thanks. Can you contakt me on e-mail: [email protected] thanks thanks thanks

Either one would work fine.
I have the 236 myself, works like a charm...
And the maps are really easy to make, but it does take some getting used to, takea the time to read through the forum and learn how to use the software.
It will pay off in the long run, trust me....

Well,
Here comes another test for Mapthis...
I'm leaving NC tomorrow driving to Washington DC to attent the viewing of President Ford. Soooo exited at another chance to use this great app...

So, let me get this straight, they are working on a Sony GPS compatible version?

I ordered one from hong kong just the other day...

I think its in the works...
Look through this thread....

Sweet...

Densika, have your ordered one yet or?

I'll donate to the cause...can send some cash via paypal...

I am going to order one probably right after the holidays..
If you want to donate - check the relevant thread in discussion forum...

Thanks in advance :-)

$20US Sent!

Hopefully this will be good to go before I leave for Europe this May!

thanks! got it!
it should not be long before we figure out how to communicate with the original gps unit...
People already made a pretty big progress there...

I Donate $20US to Sony GPS

Got 50$ so far, thanks to all of you, guys!

I can feel the spirit of the season. :-)

Actually, someone just ordered a gps unit for me
from play-asia. It's supposently paid in full and being processed. I'll let you know the status of it.
Meanwhile, I have a dilema: if everything works out I may end up with a gps unit and $50.. so, I see following options:
1) I can try to send it to a person who is getting me the unit
2) I can refund folks who wants it back
3) I get to kee the money and perhaps forward it towards buying GPS software titles, trying to reverse engeneer the GPS calls...

Please let me know what you want to do..

Happy Holidays!!!

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Originally Posted by deniska

Got 50$ so far, thanks to all of you, guys!

I can feel the spirit of the season. :-)

Actually, someone just ordered a gps unit for me
from play-asia. It's supposently paid in full and being processed. I'll let you know the status of it.
Meanwhile, I have a dilema: if everything works out I may end up with a gps unit and $50.. so, I see following options:
1) I can try to send it to a person who is getting me the unit
2) I can refund folks who wants it back
3) I get to kee the money and perhaps forward it towards buying GPS software titles, trying to reverse engeneer the GPS calls...

Please let me know what you want to do..

Happy Holidays!!!

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Re #3:

I've bought all of the GPS software titles so far. That's why we have as much progress as we do with the functions. You can buy them if you really want, but I don't think it would be necessary.

I didn't donate any money (buying GPS games to find functions) but maybe you can save it for future costs of programming that may come up. Leave it in the account and then when something else comes up there's already a foundation.

Just an idea.

I'm using 2.71 SE-B'' custom firmware and found the following bug. When I power off the PSP and power it back up, move the map, then change zoom, I will get a blank grid.

The workaround I found is to not move the map after a power off/power on. Press the [Select] button and choose the map after a power off/power on. I can then move the map and change zoom properly.

Another bug is that I cannot exit out of Map This when I press the [Home] button. When I select "Yes" to confirm exit and press the [O] button (Japanese version) nothing happens. I have to do a hard shutdown if I want to use the PSP for something else.

Minor bugs to an otherwise excellent piece of software -- thanks Deniska!

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Originally Posted by ovaltine

I'm using 2.71 SE-B'' custom firmware and found the following bug. When I power off the PSP and power it back up, move the map, then change zoom, I will get a blank grid.

The workaround I found is to not move the map after a power off/power on. Press the [Select] button and choose the map after a power off/power on. I can then move the map and change zoom properly.

Another bug is that I cannot exit out of Map This when I press the [Home] button. When I select "Yes" to confirm exit and press the [O] button (Japanese version) nothing happens. I have to do a hard shutdown if I want to use the PSP for something else.

Minor bugs to an otherwise excellent piece of software -- thanks Deniska!

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You can hold the Select Button to exit back to the XMB....

Good Stuff

Hey fellows
Really nice work being developed here, As soon as I get my gps unit from Play-asia I gonna start to test it here in Brazil and report progress too

Congratulations for this great work

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Originally Posted by Russoxley187

I'm with you on this one...
The first part that is, I WILL NOT buy a GPS from Sony...
Deniskas App has a much higher coolness factor to it.
It will be interesting to see what kind of map pgor sony releases to go along with the App.
Maybe we can use it too, you never know...
I am installing the latest version o my PSP now.
Once again...

Deniska... You rock...
I hope I don't sound like a groupie...
But this really is the best app for the PSP in my opinion.
I still would love to know how many people out there run this app....

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Actually, you can buy a receiver from Sony, just not the software, they come either bundled or not bundled, and you can get just the receiver for a cool $60 bucks, and well worth it I might add. I have it and I love it! Still trying to get the maps for my area downloaded, if anyone has any ides let m know

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Originally Posted by f34rth3r34p3r

Actually, you can buy a receiver from Sony, just not the software, they come either bundled or not bundled, and you can get just the receiver for a cool $60 bucks, and well worth it I might add. I have it and I love it! Still trying to get the maps for my area downloaded, if anyone has any ides let m know

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Actually, after my trip to DC this weekend, I think I might buy a Sony GPS after all.
I don't live ina big city, but if I needed my GPS to be more portable the Sony option would be the way to go.
I made a 9 hr trip from the beautiful North Carolina beaches to the dirty streets of Washington DC without getting lost.
Thanks to Deniska...

Deniska, I'll take a look at wrapping up the geo stuff over the weekend hopefully. Also, does this Canadian source look similar enough to the US data to be supported: http://www.geobase.ca/geobase/en/index.html (as for the UK, it seems in addition to paying for it in tax the data needs to be bough as well: http://www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk/oswebsite/ and I suspect it goes downhill from there for other countries).

Also found this for some more sample code: http://www.pagcgeo.org/

And some bug reports:

(1) Cursor note: Single cursor is included by default, rather than the once introduced double one.

(2) Distance calculation (marker + points, left top + right top keys) is wrong close to the equator (by a factor of 2 or so). I suspect you use the factor for the projection optimized (39.5?) latitude, an quick fix would be to calculate the factor on map load for the center of the map rather than the whole lat/lon to distance fix. Other distance and speed calculation also has this problem I guess.

(3) Time error, affects speed calculations? Seems to be 74 seconds/minutes rather than 60.

http://homepage.mac.com/f.levin/psp/errors/time.jpg


(4) GPS errors when maps contain -1 (or lower I guess) zoom levels.

This happens regardless of whether you are the -1 zoom level or at higher ones.


Cycles between data ok and showing arrow cursor

No data and showing out of range error

And no data without error and no arrow cursor


At all times, satellites, fix, and lat/lon headers display correctly.


Min zoom 0, showing that everything is in fact ok:

http://homepage.mac.com/f.levin/psp/...ith_m0_min.jpg


Min zoom -1, at zoom 0, the 3 states:

http://homepage.mac.com/f.levin/psp/...h_m1_error.jpg

http://homepage.mac.com/f.levin/psp/...m1_no_data.jpg

http://homepage.mac.com/f.levin/psp/...m1_data_ok.jpg


Min zoom -1, at zoom -1, has the ok state too:

http://homepage.mac.com/f.levin/psp/...etimes_too.jpg

The error seems to happen on navigating to the right location (in the screenshots I scrolled close to show that the map does contain it).

in7ane, welome back!

Don't bother with the US geocoder yet. I am changing the file format to allow reverse lookup too. I'll let you know when I am done - hopefully you'll be able to add it to the windows tool (or make a separate tool)...
The map data sources you listed seem to be in different from TIGER line data format.. so for now I'd like to stick to US only data...

I'll look at the alternative geocoder code, when I have time...

about the bugs:
1) - I liked the old cursor better so I left it..
I am actually considering major graphics gui redesign in the next release so cursors may change too...
2) For distance/bearing calculation I borrowed Rick Chapman's ( [email protected]) code.
I did not really checked the math behind it since it worked close enough for my few tests.
Perhaps you (or someone else with good knowlege of geometry) can take a look at the formulas and suggest a fix. All code is in NavigateCalculations.cpp::GeoRangeAndBearing()
3) I am aware of time display error. it should not affect speed/distance calculations though..

4) can you confirm that it does not happen on "positive zoom" maps?

Anyways, thanks for the detailed buglist and suggestions...
I am glad you are still onboard :-)

Re 4) Yes, it only happens (at all zoom levels) if the map contains a negative zoom.

Except for the awkward wording above, this was to confirm that (min zoom is 0, with same area covered) - notice the zoom bar vs picture and others (I can get a video of the two cases if that helps - but should be easy to replicate):

http://homepage.mac.com/f.levin/psp/...ith_m0_min.jpg

I am changing the GUI a bit. It's still "work in progress"... The idea is to make it more skinnable..
Perhaps someone with more artistic talant could help me to design better panels and icons...
Here is some screenshots...

Hi Deniska.
Your V0.4 Map This is fantastic !
I recently used it over Christmas while driving over 2000 kms. Worked perfectly. Came in very handy. Only time it did not work was when the Holux GPS battery went flat !
One thing I do notice is that the overall trip distance counter resets to zero each time you re-start the app, or change maps. Would it be possible to have it save the last value, & keep adding to it, rather than resetting to zero each time. You could have a manual key press sequence to reset the trip distance when required.

My friend in Melbourne (Australia) was very impressed with your program, and he has not been a PSP fan ! He may buy one soon for this very purpose.

Cheers, Chris.

i had a question...now that 3.03 OE-A is out is map this compatible with this version?

i'm looking forward to usb/gps connection capability so that i can use either the sony gps or have easier connectivity with current gps antennas.

i would also like to see speech capability added in future versions.

i just recently upgraded my psp's firmware so i will be playing around with the software and order myself an antenna.

thank you for the awesome program...i will be recommending it to others.

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Originally Posted by tigerjk1410

i had a question...now that 3.03 OE-A is out is map this compatible with this version?

i'm looking forward to usb/gps connection capability so that i can use either the sony gps or have easier connectivity with current gps antennas.

i would also like to see speech capability added in future versions.

i just recently upgraded my psp's firmware so i will be playing around with the software and order myself an antenna.

thank you for the awesome program...i will be recommending it to others.

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It works...
I run it on two of my PSp's...

deniska, regarding 2) the distance calculations, sorry for the erroneous report - the problem was the map (the Google road/city coverage of Africa, although nice, is at best a guess of where things are it seems :)

And a real bug: if you scroll to an area of longitude <= -100 the battery % sign gets forced off the screen (if GPS is on part of the second field does instead).

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Originally Posted by in7ane

deniska, regarding 2) the distance calculations, sorry for the erroneous report - the problem was the map (the Google road/city coverage of Africa, although nice, is at best a guess of where things are it seems :)

And a real bug: if you scroll to an area of longitude <= -100 the battery % sign gets forced off the screen (if GPS is on part of the second field does instead).

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This should not be a problem in the next release - since I am now displaying a battery icon instead of a number... Also, fixed the time display bug.. rearanged some controls, made the map cursor/map scroll faster, finished geo lookup and reverse lookup for US addresses...etc..
I'll post the newest beta version and the geotools probably tonight or tomorrow...

First off, I'd like to thank deniska, in7ane and all others who are developing this awesome tool for the psp. As a fan, and hopeful future user, I was wondering how long until the PSP GPS was ale to be implemented? maybe in the next month?, two months? I by no means am trying to be pushy, just incredibly eager to be able to use the tool myself. I already have the PSP GPS from Sony because I want to use it the day it becomes available. If there is anything that I or anyone else can do to assist let us know. I know there is a large group of people just waiting for the day the Sony GPS is supported. Thanks again for all of your guys hard work.

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Originally Posted by justcerfin

First off, I'd like to thank deniska, in7ane and all others who are developing this awesome tool for the psp. As a fan, and hopeful future user, I was wondering how long until the PSP GPS was ale to be implemented? maybe in the next month?, two months? I by no means am trying to be pushy, just incredibly eager to be able to use the tool myself. I already have the PSP GPS from Sony because I want to use it the day it becomes available. If there is anything that I or anyone else can do to assist let us know. I know there is a large group of people just waiting for the day the Sony GPS is supported. Thanks again for all of your guys hard work.

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I am still waiting for may Sony GPS unit to arive..
So no work is being done by me yet... but other people have had some progress, figuring out GPS module's function calls....
You can try to check with johnmph from ps2dev.org forums as he done most of the related work...

Hi deniska, I don't know if this has already been mentioned before anywhere else, but I've run into what seems to be two issues with Map This! 0.4 and the way it displays POIs. I've boxed the areas with the problems in my screenshot and I've attached my POI file.

1) If the POI filename contains lowercase letters, the lowercase letters won't be displayed in Map This! (the POI filename in my screenshot is "_San Diego Points of Interest").

2) The POI names are frequently truncated (the POI name in my screenshot is "Get Up & Go Welcome Center").

I use Google Maps Download 0.4.0b to create my POI files. Thanks a lot for creating this great program. :D

http://img405.imageshack.us/img405/148/poibug2xg3.jpg

this should not be an issue in the next release...

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this should not be an issue in the next release...

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That sounds great. Do you have an estimate as to when the next release will be ready? I'm taking a trip in a few weeks and the current version is confusing my girlfriend (who's also my navigator :p ).

http://deniska.dcemu.co.uk/bin/mapthis0460.jpg
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- address lookup for US addresses (via TIGER line data)
- reverse lookup (shows the closest known house numbers or intersections)
- new logo, startup screen, wallpaper (contributed by DaxDce)
- re-designed interface: new fonts, menus, some layout changes, more skinable data panels, battery & signal icons, etc..
- some bug fixes: clock desplay, POI layout problem, etc.
- bundled with small NYC map and corresponding geodata file. (~1Mb)


Creation of US geodata file:
I provided a set of scripts & programs (all with sources) to get the Tiger Line data from US Census Bureau. They have been tested under cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com)...
Perhaps someone (in7ane?) could convert that code in to some kind of GUI program.

To generate the geodata file for a state do following:
1) copy geocoder folder to your cygwin home directory
2) navigate to that folder (using cd command) under cygwin prompt.
3)run following command:
./geo-map.sh [2-letter state abbreviation in capitals]
Example: ./geo-map.sh NY
4) wait for a few hours while it creates geodata.dat file
5) copy geodata.dat file to your map's folder.

Some notes:
-Some code and ideas were borrowed from Dan Egnor's geocoder (http://ofb.net/~egnor/google.html) but the data was rearranged and compressed to allow reverse geocoding and ~3x smaller resulting file.

- Intergrity of comressed data in geodata.dat file can be cheked with decompr comand:
./decompr deodata.dat [zipcode]
This should extract all the geo entries for a given zipcode (useful for troubleshooting)
- With some minor alteratoins the script can be used to produce geodata file for any given area (from few zipcodes to few states)
I attached the county codes file for easy reference to tiger line data.
Perhaps a reference file, listing min/max GPS coordinates for each county could be created. The program then would compare the map's lon/lat span with those coordinates to extract a set of counties corresponding to that map and process only these counties.


http://deniska.dcemu.co.uk/bin/MapThis_0460.zip

Love the new Beta with new Interface. Layout looks sharper and much more intuitive. Thanks for all of your incredibly great work! Do you usually release the source code to your betas or only major builds?

Great job with the new release! But since it's still beta I've got a few things to bring up.

Bug still exists that was mentioned before where if you turn off your psp and on again, a blank grid is shown for other zoom levels and it freezes on exit. Only occurs on GPSFS maps, Nx picture file maps are not affected. Running firmware 3.03OE-a.

Start button menu has issue where selections scroll too fast, a small delay should be incorporated so you don't skip selections so quickly. CPU clock speed may be a factor.

I'm sure you know about this already but the GPS serial feed cuts out after a power off-on cycle. Is this a limitation of the hardware/firmware or something you think you can work around? I know the serial port is a bit finicky to initialize and stuff but with custom firmwares I wonder if it can be activated continuously which would certainly help with homebrew hardware development.

Bit sad about the satellite data (number visible, data good/bad, etc.) disappearing. I guess not everyone likes the clutter but maybe it could be enabled or disabled in the config file?

That's all I can think of for now, keep up the great work! This is by far my favourite and most used homebrew program.

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Originally Posted by trey99

Love the new Beta with new Interface. Layout looks sharper and much more intuitive. Thanks for all of your incredibly great work! Do you usually release the source code to your betas or only major builds?

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I can post the source if anyone needs it...

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Originally Posted by mr-flibble

Great job with the new release! But since it's still beta I've got a few things to bring up.

Bug still exists that was mentioned before where if you turn off your psp and on again, a blank grid is shown for other zoom levels and it freezes on exit. Only occurs on GPSFS maps, Nx picture file maps are not affected. Running firmware 3.03OE-a.

Start button menu has issue where selections scroll too fast, a small delay should be incorporated so you don't skip selections so quickly. CPU clock speed may be a factor.

I'm sure you know about this already but the GPS serial feed cuts out after a power off-on cycle. Is this a limitation of the hardware/firmware or something you think you can work around? I know the serial port is a bit finicky to initialize and stuff but with custom firmwares I wonder if it can be activated continuously which would certainly help with homebrew hardware development.

Bit sad about the satellite data (number visible, data good/bad, etc.) disappearing. I guess not everyone likes the clutter but maybe it could be enabled or disabled in the config file?

That's all I can think of for now, keep up the great work! This is by far my favourite and most used homebrew program.

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Powering PSP off seems to kill the auxiliary threads, responsible for managing the tiles (thus blank maps)
and unload the modules, required for serial comm..
I am sure this all can somehow be coded around, it's just I did not have time to look in to this issue..
For now, i suggest that you don't power down your PSP while using the program (some data file corruption may occur)

You can still figure out the number of satellites by looking at the signal icon.
1 green bar - corresponds to 3 good satellites, 2 bars to 4.. etc
8 or more satellites would show 6 bars...

hm, is it a bug or not, can you build in a check if an gps device is connectet or not, then when you put on gps mode and nor gpsdev is connectet the prog hangs just up in a location out of range screen...
Poi´s now work fine :) Scroll speed is just amazing, but in the "start" menu, the button delay to choose an option is very fast.

Will the geo lookup work in europ to ?

I like the redisign too, very nice.
And, eventually can you made an language file, which holds all the dialogs, so we can make different languages in future?