Windows maps download tool for MapThis! by in7ane

**Holesoul** · November 20th, 2006, 12:53

Hi in7ane,
I'm Italian and i live in Sicily.

At the moment the local volcano Etna is in eruption and yesterday I've gone to see it.

I' ve used Google Maps Download 0.2.15a build 36348 for search the driving directions. it is happened that I'm lost many times because the directions idicates me inexistents roads....

I've noticed that the directions indicated by the live search is different by that downloaded...It indicate a different route wich is wrong...

**Russoxley187** · November 20th, 2006, 15:17

As far as I know Google maps and the others use Map overlays. Pictures from Satilite footage, its not real time. So naturally there are going to be some differences. Roads are being built all the time. If you zoom real close in with google maps, on some tiles you can see the date on the maps and when they were taken.

**Russoxley187** · November 20th, 2006, 15:20

Originally Posted by fpeng

hi
I have managed to put MapThis program and maps into a ISO file and use DEVHOOK to run the software. It works fine and loading tiles is very fast. But sometimes the software is dead locked when loading attraction.

How do you think this ISO idea? Could anyone give me some advice about the dead lock?

Thanks!

Well,

Not really sure why you would want to do that, but the only thing I can think of is that maybe you hit the button to track coordinates and it tried writing to your ISO/Disk in which it locked up.
Just a thought.
Do you mind sharing?
I would like to try it, you got me curious...

**deniska** · November 20th, 2006, 18:34

Originally Posted by fpeng

hi
I have managed to put MapThis program and maps into a ISO file and use DEVHOOK to run the software. It works fine and loading tiles is very fast. But sometimes the software is dead locked when loading attraction.

How do you think this ISO idea? Could anyone give me some advice about the dead lock?

Thanks!

This sounds interesting! Did you put all your maps in ISO file too?
Which version of map this did you use? Maybe there is a bug in a particular version? Did you use GPSFS or uncompressed maps format for your maps?

Which tool did you use to build ISO?

**fpeng** · November 21st, 2006, 02:23

At first it took me near 3 hours to copy 80M tiles to MS. Then I began to think about using a ISO file.

Now I put more than 200M tiles in a ISO and it runs very well. But there are some problems need to be addressed. One is the attraction problem I mentioned early. Another is about GPS not working when there is a UMD in PSP. This is reported by my friend but I haven't tested it yet.

I haven't tested GPSFS. But basically I think the ISO idea is better than GPSFS. In the future the map data can be put into an ISO and separated from the program itself.

The tools are PBP Unpacker, UMDGen.exe and DEVHOOK 4.6.

1. Compile for 1.0.
2. Use PBP Unpacker to extract DATA.PSP from EBOOT.PBP.
3. Copy DATA.PSP to BOOT.BIN EBOOT.BIN
4. Use UMDGen to make a ISO file.
5. Use DEVHOOK to reboot the ISO file as a UMB.

**deniska** · November 21st, 2006, 20:02

fpeng,
thanks for the info.
I tried converting to iso and it worked.
Attached is a the latest (beta) version of map this! packed in iso file together with a 32x map of brooklyn with some POI. (this should give people a better idea about the correct file structure in the iso file)

Some notes on ISO file usage:
POIs seem to work ok for me, I am not sure if it's a bug, fixed in my recent version or some mistake on your side (perhaps you were not copying the icon images for your POI files??)

I could not create an iso for a large ~600MB uncompressed map - UMDGen kept crapping out.
I was able to create a large GPSFS compressed map as an iso image. The system hung up then I tried to open that map... So there maybe some devhook or iso limitation there... perhaps someone else could re-test...

resulting iso file seems to be much bigger than the source map...

I was not able to run my custom MapThis! iso's from 2.71 SEB xmb. (this would be pretty cool, i guess.. perhaps in some future version?)

Below are the devhook 0.46 settings that worked for me:
UMD select -->image + any umd
FW --> 1.50 + flash
Boot select --> reboot UMD (1.5 only)

Additional notes:
I fixed the UMD/WIFI switch bug - so it should not interfere anymore with GPS data transfer...
"Add POI" feature is not finished in this version so don't try to make it work yet....(Actually I am not convinced that it will ever work with iso image since the program attempts to update a POI file, zipped inside the iso)

**deniska** · November 21st, 2006, 20:06

Originally Posted by in7ane

deniska, I've added support for http://map.sogou.com/new/ which has maps of China and looks reasonable to work with (256x256 tiles, 2x jumps, but not google tile compliant).

http://key.go2map.com/lib/js/k.js looks like it contains the lat/lon to tile code

Zoom increases from 711 in steps of 1, x,y are centered at lat,lon 0,0. In coords.txt I save their unaltered coordinates (get numbers shows an altered y and zoom in the application).

If you decide to add support for GPS for this in Map This! tell me how you want it indicated in coords.txt and GPSFS (or just on zoom being >= 711?).

http://homepage.mac.com/f.levin/psp/....15aGPSFS2.zip

Threading is also in, without any benefit though.

in7ane, good work with the new chineese map vendor. I tried to d/l a farely small map using this, and missed ~ 40 % of tiles. It opened in map this but hung it after I did a few zooms. I'll try to run it in the debugger, when I have time... for now I'll probably queue the GPS support (that obfuscated js looks like chineese to me :-))

**Russoxley187** · November 21st, 2006, 23:59

Deniska....

Why does your movies POI info show up larger?
Thats awesome...
What version is that?
That really help while driving...

You Rock...

**Russoxley187** · November 28th, 2006, 02:46

I was thinking about loading 2.71 se-c. on my psp. It supposedly had the same features as a 1.5 and a 2.71.
Will Map this GPS feature still work?
I dont want to upgrade and then be SOL...