Windows maps download tool for MapThis! by in7ane

[in7ane]

Lord_Lucifer, it isn't really possible to use Firefox instead of IE as there is no equivalent (easy to use) Firefox COM object for .NET

eminded, it shouldn't fail straight away unless you are already blocked, however recently something changed with the google page so version numbers (next to where you select the map source) weren't showing up. This is fixed in a new http://www.in7ane.com/psp/gmdl0.5.02a.zip which you may want to try - however it's quite unlikely that this was the reason.

Mystheryman, go with Codaz's suggestion of using Nieko's scripts - there's no point in me rewriting them in GMDL (and at this pace I'm unlike to have the time to do it any time soon).

[Tbone54]

Hi Inzane,

Amesome work on the project.

Im having some issues using gmdl. First is there any documentation?

Im a bit overwhelmed with the amount of options that are on the screen, Ive looked through the source, and online and there only seems to be simple how tos. Is there any good documentation?

2nd, sometimes I zoom in on an area then click download map, and it just randomly chooses its own section of the map i was viewing to download. Is it because the section Im trying to download is too big?

Its quite strange... Im zoomed into most of toronto, I hit the download map. It then chooses the rural area I have up the top. And wants to download that. If I continue it only downloads 2mb of the rural section. Ignores pretty much all the interesting parts.

Thanks

[in7ane]

There are various how-to's and the wiki - but I guess you've found those. Beyond that there isn't really anything more in the form of documentation since a lot of the functionality is just something I wanted in or from specific requests (if you have specific questions post them here and I'll try to answer them).

Area selection jumps tile-by-tile, so by 256 pixels at a time - use the Preview 1x and and Preview 2x buttons to see what you are going to get and move the map accordingly.

[Tbone54]

Thanks in7ane,

I managed to get it all working with some trial and error, until the map looked like what i wanted.

Thanks for the quick reply, and awesome app.

[Codaz]

In7ane, could you integrate the scripts Nieko made into GMDL ?

So that if people supply the geodata file from OSM, it auto extracts it and prompts which area the user wants to rip out of it.

Then it rips them out, and makes a geodata.dat file of it.

Should be doable since Nieko's scripts are pretty good.

Only a lot of time for the pc to extract and a lot of harddrive space is needed (20 gigabyte).

But with today's pc hardware it should be fine.

[Tbone54]

Sorry about another question In7ane,


But im getting run time errors, when trying to download geodata.

Is there anything on my system that could be causing the problem?

Thanks

[in7ane]

I finally got a few hours to sit down and finish up the semi-auto google geodata (with a local cache), and that's in: http://www.in7ane.com/psp/gmdl0.5.02a.zip (last tab in the geodata form, should be straight forward, but if there are problems please do report them).

Codaz, I'll take a look at that next - but no promises on when it'll actually make it into the app properly.

Tbone54, could you post the more info part from the runtime error (it will give me a line reference) also the area of the map (maybe it's just bad geodata).

[Gizzmo_jr]

Is it at all possible using Google maps modify route, to update the POI's when creating my directions? It will only take the from: and the last to: and generate the path based off those.

[micking]

when i download it says Not found :-(

[Tbone54]

Edit heres the error:


Hi In7ane,

sorry been busy with work, and the usal. When i get home Ill get the screenshots of what happens.

I have a map that ive downloaded of Toronto. Then then use it to get the geodata, but it gets a run time exception as soon as the geodata window loads up.

I then hit continue, and it trys to connect, then it errors again and just says download failed.


Ill get the screenshots tonite. So you can have a better idea of exactly what im doing.


Thanks