Windows maps download tool for MapThis! by in7ane

[in7ane]

http://www.in7ane.com/psp/gmdl0.4.6b.zip

(1)
True custom maps that are fully GPS compatible, courtesy of MapCruncher by Microsoft Research ( http://research.microsoft.com/mapcruncher/ , you may also want to read http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa907679.aspx )

Example (converted to JPEG since PNG version was 131MB):
http://www.in7ane.com/mc/7pr/_MC_JPG_SHIFT.zip (GPSFS map 7MB)
http://www.in7ane.com/mc/7pr/ (Local.Live mashup)
http://www.in7ane.com/mc/7pr/7pr.zip (the whole thing, 14MB)

I've also put in an option (off by default) to fill empty tiles (with a small jpg/png), since I'm experiencing some crashes in Map This! which seem to occur if the leftmost tile being loaded is empty (seems to be specific to jpg maps as well), deniska - any ideas, or is it just me?

(2)
Name change (if you can do better with something that abbreviates to GMDL I'd welcome suggestions), and I would also like to know if people have an opinion about switching away from Google Maps to Local.Live as the navigation basis for the app, given Microsoft's much better attitude (un-watermarked and unlimited satellite imagery, documentation on how to pull tiles, support of TerraServer-USA, and tools like MapCruncher).


zsc, the POI and directions columns no longer auto-size, and name is the first one. There's also a button to remove duplicated for POIs. About the wiki - just click edit next to the section you want to edit, make sure to use preview and have a read of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Editing

UK Topo NPE maps - having the tiles aligned does cause a very noticeable offset at the edges of the map (tested on a 8 to 2 of London), so now you can either have the option to be aligned of better GPS compatibility (or wait until the server starts accepting lat/lon requests).

AZImmortal, I think Map This! uses the MIDPOINT marker to treat the point differently, so it needs to be there - either way directions are changing for the next version, so I will wait until that is out to see how an upcoming turn can be implemented (have you tried setting WARNINGDISTANCE= in mapViewer/system/config.txt to a larger value to get a similar effect?). Alternatively I can stick whatever fits onto the same line as the distance remaining, something like this: 0.1mi - Turn left at Ea...

PSPLawyer, it looks like the dlls are not where they should be, could you post the whole text of the error, also do your directory contents/structure look like this:

../Geodata & Map Download & Load.exe
../Geodata & Map Download & Load.pdb
../icons/..
../usgs_tiger/..
../config.txt
../resources/..
../geodata/..
../ZipForge.xml
../zlib.net.dll
../ZipForge.dll
../Geodata & Map Download & Load.vshost.exe


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People seem to be already way ahead of me with scanning Russian topographic maps: http://velotourism.ru/navigator/topomaps/index.html seems to have extensive coverage and there are select better quality ones at http://mapy.mk.cvut.cz/news.htm guess I'll post up anything I do convert to GPSFS

[Chrislim]

Another great job in7ane
Got a Question are we able to use to the map from Mapking or OZI for PSP
how should it be convert and what are the tools needed to convert them .
sorry for asking
thanks a million

[in7ane]

Chrislim, OZI Explorer: File/Save Map To Image File and then processing the file in MapCruncher should work, Mapking ( if http://www.mapking.com/en/ ?) seems to be a vector map format - so if there is no export to bitmap option you could try taking a whole lot of screenshots (maybe you can get the window to be large enough to show the full map at closest zoom and then take a print screen of the active window).

[PSPLawyer]

in7ane, here is my structure:

http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s.../structure.jpg

[PSPLawyer]

in7ane, here is the error message in word format:

http://www.megaupload.com/?d=1Z3BEIVB

[PSPLawyer]

in7ane, the above issue are now moot: Your new release fixed the problem. I noticed you put the GMDL folder as the first folder and main directory and I think this may have been a factor in correcting the error I was always getting. This time I used winzip with success and didn't have to use winrar.

[in7ane]

PSPLawyer, others, the exe needs to be in the same directory as the two dlls and the following directories:

../icons/..
../usgs_tiger/..
../resources/..
../geodata/..

and config.txt if you use it

[zsc]

@in7ane, I've actually been using Live.Local for my maps download instead of Google. With Live.Local, I can get better zoom for satellite/aerial images for the US, though elsewhere in the world, I think Google still has the upperhand. I live in Los Angeles and Live Local coverage is pretty good. However, I've been checking out maps for Chiang Mai, Thailand, and Google has pretty good Satellite images of the area.

Global Maps Download Tool (GMDL)...how's that?

[PSPLawyer]

@zsc, I too am in Los Angeles. Do you have a good Los Angeles or Los Angeles and OC map to share?

My Los Angeles map is two-fold. Central and out towards Pomona and my other map is of Santa Monica and Valley. I'd like to have just one map of Los Angeles.

THanks.

[ThaNerd]

@in7ane: Did you even check out my version of your app? I mean, you didn't comment about my ideas, i try to help, but all the changes i made to make your app BETTER are voided everytime you release a new version, since you don't use them...

Actually, why making it "open source" if you don't take the benefit of what other try to do for helping?