*Updated* MapThis WIFI updateing tutorial

[lewbacca]

thanks for the tip... couldn't find "show url" you're talking about but manage to see my coord's over "link to this page"

But, even with that coord's I cant get to street level like I do with a regular google map.
My coords are: 41.178331/-8.627529 for Oporto and 38.728108/-915277 for Lisbon, couldn't mange to get any map from those

oh sorry about that.. i am from germany... the german google maps shows "url anzeigen"... i translated that..

[fokia]

oh sorry about that.. i am from germany... the german google maps shows "url anzeigen"... i translated that..

It helped anyway... but the problem keeps up...

[seesoe]

im im not sure what to say, im also stuck my self with downloading map from the computer instead of the psp, there is a way but i couldn't get it to work im still messing with it when i get it i will update step by step here

[fokia]

im im not sure what to say, im also stuck my self with downloading map from the computer instead of the psp, there is a way but i couldn't get it to work im still messing with it when i get it i will update step by step here

Which location are you [seesoe] trying to download? For now, the only locations I've had any success were US UK & JP

Portugal, France & Germany with no success...

[fokia]

Well, after many tests and net crawling, I found http://mapki.com/wiki/Main_Page
were, I think, part of the actual Google maps scraping scripts were taken.
There are lots of info/links about Google maps but this, in particular, caught my attention:
http://www.onnyturf.com/google/latlontotile.html
Here, you can tile any location (well some are not supported, don't know why...) same fashion as the scripts does in an automatic way...

From this tool I found out that the only locations we can tile to use with GPS/PSP are US, UK, JP and part or northern Italy (Torino?!?) every thing else are not supported lower than country level... I think this may be a cause of latest revisions of the Google maps API, since using the regular Google maps we can go to street level... Don't think that Google fancies that much people scraping their beautiful tiles...(oh… that also violates the terms of service...) and, as lower as we go in the zoom as much info we have to get from the Google servers…

I leave a picture were the maps end in northern Italy (torino):

In the right side of the tile we can see that the map abruptly ends.

*new edition*
We can see that on the maps were we can't get street level for Europe (exception for Torino&UK) that pages are using v1 of Google’s API (checked the page source…), so this is definitively an API problem... on pages using v2 API we can go to street level but the URL “http://mt.google.com/mt?v=w...” for fetching tile must be different, i guess...

[deniska]

Try to play with different API versions v=w2.21 seem to work ok for most places in Western Europe, Australia, New Zeland, Japan, North America..
Rule of the thumb - if you can get it from main google maps page - you should be able to "cache" it ;-)

You are correct - I borrowed most of my logic from mapki wiki page... ;-)

[fokia]

Try to play with different API versions v=w2.21 seem to work ok for most places in Western Europe, Australia, New Zeland, Japan, North America..
Rule of the thumb - if you can get it from main google maps page - you should be able to "cache" it ;-)

You are correct - I borrowed most of my logic from mapki wiki page... ;-)

Seems I've found the problem:

Replace

URL="http://mt1.google.com/mt?v=w2.12&x=$x&y=$y&zoom=$zoom"

for

URL="http://mt.google.com/mt?n=404&v=w2.21&x=$x&y=$y&zoom=$zoom"

On getmap.sh so you can use API v2 with these scripts. It still occur an offset which I don't understand - well, it got something to do with X and Y calculations that somehow get all wrong...

[mugenx]

do i hafta have a gps reciever to download my maps? because i dont have one and i didnt exactly what u wrote down. when i press start after i put in all the info, the screen just stays at:

PREPAIRING TO GET 340 TILES
CONNECTING....
N A C : -2146367999







PRESS [SELECT] TO CANCEL?

whats wrong? i just want to be able to view maps, i dont really want to use the GPS function.

[deniska]

I don't think I have that message ( N A C : -2146367999) in the code...

The closest that I have is: "sceNetApctlConnect failed...XXXXXX"

No, you don't need a GPS receiver in order to get the maps.... check your WIFI setup..
Also, this may not work for 2.0+ FWs...
If you continue having problems, consider using the cygwin scripts...

[mugenx]

im running firewire 1.5 and i live in canada. i wonder whats wrong >.>