Windows maps download tool for MapThis! by in7ane

[Russoxley187]

Mine keeps shutting down right after the splash screen...
Maybe I corrupted the files.
I'll try a fresh install...
Could you tell me why your Movie POI text comes up larger?
Like when you actually go over a POI, is there a place to change that?
I really like that feature, its easier to drive that way.

[deniska]

Put "!WAYPOINT" somethere in your poi file and the program will treat your POIS as waypoints, displaying them in bigger font..
Sorry I forgot to answer that question before...

[chi80]

Hi Deniska,

do you remember me? i try to recode a new edition PSPMapViewer for China map(Baidu map). whith your help i finished v1.1.
you could find it at:
http://blog.sina.com.cn/u/4b657a0601000670
but it's in chineses. sorry :'(

you could download it from:
http://103.vdisk.cn//sto_get.php?sto...iewer_v1.1.rar

except GPS mode, i rewrite all the code. it's a greate experience for me.

i have some question:
1. how to converting program to ISO?
2. I try to connect PSP to the other GPSs besides 236. but I failed. did you try to connect PSP with other GPS?
thanks.

[Russoxley187]

Put "!WAYPOINT" somethere in your poi file and the program will treat your POIS as waypoints, displaying them in bigger font..
Sorry I forgot to answer that question before...

ha ha ha,
Actually i asked that three times before, but whos counting..
No big deal... I know you have alot going on.
If I may ask, what other kick a$$ appz do you have planned for the psp, if any?
Just wondering.
I really think that this app no doubt is the best homebrew app ever.
:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

[deniska]

Hi Deniska,

do you remember me? i try to recode a new edition PSPMapViewer for China map(Baidu map). whith your help i finished v1.1.
you could find it at:
http://blog.sina.com.cn/u/4b657a0601000670
but it's in chineses. sorry :'(

you could download it from:
http://103.vdisk.cn//sto_get.php?sto...iewer_v1.1.rar

except GPS mode, i rewrite all the code. it's a greate experience for me.

i have some question:
1. how to converting program to ISO?
2. I try to connect PSP to the other GPSs besides 236. but I failed. did you try to connect PSP with other GPS?
thanks.

Nice work, chi80.
1)
Check page 30 in this thread for detaild on converting to ISO. It lists all the tools that you need, so find and download them from dcemu or pcpupdates. You can also use UMDGen to open the ISO example that I created the see the exact directory structure.
You may need to change your program to write to config files in root directory as I am not sure if you'll be able to update the directory structure in your ISO during the program's execution...

2) People reported my program working with a few other devices. You'll have to search my forums for the device names as I don't remember them. Also, someone uploaded some code which seems to work better for some "slow" gps models.. again search through my forums for that code....

BTW, in his last version, in7ane added support for yet another chinese map vendor, which format seems a bit closer to google one.. Perhaps you could figure out the formulas between the tiles and gps coordinates.. so I could through in the gps support for that vendor in my version... Again, scan this thread for details if interested...

Well, good luck with your version - it look very promising...

[deniska]

ha ha ha,
Actually i asked that three times before, but whos counting..
No big deal... I know you have alot going on.
If I may ask, what other kick a$$ appz do you have planned for the psp, if any?
Just wondering.
I really think that this app no doubt is the best homebrew app ever.
:thumbup: :thumbup: :thumbup:

No new apps in plans so far...
I have to make a lot of improvements to Map This before I could switch to something else...
I might do some quick game port in a near future..
as a matter of fact I have a couple of puzzle games which I never finished...----short attention span ;-)

[Russoxley187]

I think its a pretty solid app.
I do like the suggestion that the guy asked about in the other thead."moving the cursor around on the map is a little slow." Is there a way to speed it up?
Otherwise I am very happy.
Do you by any chance have a round about figure on how many people use map this?
We should make a poll of some sort.

[in7ane]

Map download tool version 0.4.0b: http://homepage.mac.com/f.levin/psp/gmdl0.4.0b.zip

Posting all my notes:

New file container format - so, copying maps to the memory stick is significantly faster now.

There's an option to cut up POIs and directions into files of 400.

Custom maps now takes, and scales up, any PNG.

There are icon previews for POI and Directions images.

There is the option to repair map directories, filling in missing tiles, which could be useful for Google Satellite maps that time out - now with a warning (see the wikibooks page).

Google sources now automatically get the latest tile layer version (which you can change to get older maps/satellite eg try 10 instead of 11 in London).

Detail selection (the 8x8 tile screen) now checks the checkboxes when you click anywhere on the tile.

Threading is in, although it seems quite useless in terms of how it performs in .NET

Semi-usable Chinese map support (go2map from http://map.sogou.com/new/), without GPS right now (http://key.go2map.com/lib/js/k.js looks like it contains the lat/lon to tile code), but that should be implementable hopefully (different projection than google, but the tiles are all in 2x jumps).

danastasiei, convert the PDF into a PNG of a reasonable resolution (Photoshop, and most other image editors will do this). Then just load it into the custom map option - and it will be scaled and cut up.

kididio, I'll definitely put in netstumbler file support, what would help is some sample code beyond the definition (http://www.stumbler.net/ns1files.html).

nforce100, about translation, basic/advanced is fixed, and I've added some of the message boxes, let me know if you do an update - otherwise I'll try to put in the rest of the message boxes/progress for the next release. And I still have viamichelin POIs on my todo list...

joeschmoe.lyt www.mediafire.com seems to be a nice place to host stuff, please add anything you do post to http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Map_This!#Ready_Made_Maps but keep in mind what is in the public domain, and what is not (and use the latest version due to the new file container format, see above).

[pook]

Whats the chance that it wont be to hard for you guys to make this work with the Sony GPS ??

Pook

[bgruselle]

In7ane, could we please have
- an .exe that installs with all required components/libraries ?
- an app window that fits a 768x1024 screen ?
- clearer alerts/messages ?

Tho' I have installed everything required, read the manual, search this forum I just cannot d/L any maps nor convert my old ones... so far cygwin is so much more easy for me to use .
Thanks for your efforts anyway