Map This! v0.4

[joeschmoe.lyt]

If someone can tell me how I'll gladly do the geodata for Tx and post it here for that RomComZom guy and whoever else. Is it difficult?

[deniska]

deniska, I'm trying to get the UK postcodes (http://www.freethepostcode.org/) into a usable geodata format. A few issues though - I suspect when you parse the lat/lon you assume the longitude is negative, and the search function requires a minimum number of characters (and a street number?).

So far I got the reverse geolookup to work once - but can't replicate that If you have time could you take a look and if you have any idea what I'm missing.

http://homepage.mac.com/f.levin/psp/GeoData0.2.3a.zip
http://homepage.mac.com/f.levin/psp/geodataUK.dat

Index:
00000,52750525,-1615776, ,,45481,48

Data:
AB10,,-2117000+57135000
AB10 7LE,,+0+57000000
AB11,,-2092000+57138000

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Regarding the crash - I suspect it may be due to the county column in the data grid having been edited, but tell me if it happens again and I'll try and replicate and fix it.

Also, files on http://glockdancers.com/mapthis/ are no longer accessible.

Could you confirm that zip.txt is not required in the _map folder on the PSP.

- the zips should be again availale for download...
perhaps someone could offere a mirror?

- zip.txt is not needed inside mapthis map's folders.

I'll take a closer look at why your zip lookup does not work in a day or two, once I have time..

[deniska]

deniska, I'm trying to get the UK postcodes (http://www.freethepostcode.org/) into a usable geodata format. A few issues though - I suspect when you parse the lat/lon you assume the longitude is negative, and the search function requires a minimum number of characters (and a street number?).

So far I got the reverse geolookup to work once - but can't replicate that If you have time could you take a look and if you have any idea what I'm missing.

http://homepage.mac.com/f.levin/psp/GeoData0.2.3a.zip
http://homepage.mac.com/f.levin/psp/geodataUK.dat

Index:
00000,52750525,-1615776, ,,45481,48

Data:
AB10,,-2117000+57135000
AB10 7LE,,+0+57000000
AB11,,-2092000+57138000

There are 2 problems with this setup:
1) MapThis expects the closest coordinate to be within 300 meters of it's current position. Though good for streets this assumption would not work great with zipcodes... (of course I can make it configurable, if needed)
2) In the zip-data portion you don't populate the street number(s) section so the strtok fails and yeild bad comparison/display... Try putting '0' there - it would not make much sence from display point but should yeild better search results..

Perhaps this zipcode data could be better presented as a set of POIs....

[in7ane]

http://www.in7ane.com/psp/GeoData0.2.4a.zip

Now by default points at a mirror of the USGS geodata at http://www.in7ane.com/psp/usgs_tiger/

If it has not propagated to your DNS servers yet you can try http://www.opendns.com/start/


deniska, the UK postcodes were mainly just a test - there's no need to search beyond 300m as until the full postcodes are collected the first part has little use (and the full ones will eventually be spaced less than 300m apart).

Also, could you let me know when you finish all the geodata files and I'll update my copy again.

I'll look into rolling this into the main map download app in the near future (once I have a better idea of how much traffic there is and how to handle the local file cache better).

[chalupa2412]

Sorry for being a noob, but i just got the new Holux gps receiver and I'm trying to set up MapThis! and everything on my PSP and I'm having trouble with the installation and setup. I'm running firmware 2.0 and I just need some help so i can get this running, other than that all the work you guys are doing looks great. this is one of the coolest things i've seen a psp do. thanks.

[deniska]

Sorry for being a noob, but i just got the new Holux gps receiver and I'm trying to set up MapThis! and everything on my PSP and I'm having trouble with the installation and setup. I'm running firmware 2.0 and I just need some help so i can get this running, other than that all the work you guys are doing looks great. this is one of the coolest things i've seen a psp do. thanks.

You'll need to install custom firmware on your PSP or downgrade to 1.5. (the serial port functionality requires some kernel mode call which may not be available in 2.xx FW.
Find details in the forum threads, related to downgrading and/or custom firmware installation.

[deniska]

in7ane,
I just tried to generate geodata with the latest version of your tool (http://www.in7ane.com/psp/GeoData0.2.4a.zip)
and got following error on step 2:

See the end of this message for details on invoking
just-in-time (JIT) debugging instead of this dialog box.
************** Exception Text **************
System.ArgumentOutOfRangeException: StartIndex cannot be less than zero.
Parameter name: startIndex
at System.String.InternalSubStringWithChecks(Int32 startIndex, Int32 length, Boolean fAlwaysCopy)
at System.String.Substring(Int32 startIndex, Int32 length)
at GeoData_for_MapThis.MainScreen.SelectUSGS_Click(Ob ject sender, EventArgs e) in C:\Documents and Settings\Admin\Desktop\GeoData for MapThis\MainScreen.cs:line 310
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnClick(EventArgs e)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.OnMouseUp(MouseEventAr gs mevent)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WmMouseUp(Message& m, MouseButtons button, Int32 clicks)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.ButtonBase.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Button.WndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.O nMessage(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.Control.ControlNativeWindow.W ndProc(Message& m)
at System.Windows.Forms.NativeWindow.Callback(IntPtr hWnd, Int32 msg, IntPtr wparam, IntPtr lparam)

************** Loaded Assemblies **************
mscorlib
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/Microsoft.NET/Fra...7/mscorlib.dll
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GeoData for MapThis
Assembly Version: 1.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 1.0.0.0
CodeBase: file:///C:/cygwin/usr/local/GeoData0...%20MapThis.exe
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System.Windows.Forms
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL...dows.Forms.dll
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System
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL...089/System.dll
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System.Drawing
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL...em.Drawing.dll
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ZipForge
Assembly Version: 1.3.0.0
Win32 Version: 1.3.0.0
CodeBase: file:///C:/cygwin/usr/local/GeoData0...g/ZipForge.DLL
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System.Data
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_32/S...ystem.Data.dll
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System.Xml
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL...System.Xml.dll
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System.Configuration
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL...figuration.dll
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Microsoft.JScript
Assembly Version: 8.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 8.0.50727.42
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL...ft.JScript.dll
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Accessibility
Assembly Version: 2.0.0.0
Win32 Version: 2.0.50727.42 (RTM.050727-4200)
CodeBase: file:///C:/WINDOWS/assembly/GAC_MSIL...essibility.dll
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************** JIT Debugging **************
To enable just-in-time (JIT) debugging, the .config file for this
application or computer (machine.config) must have the
jitDebugging value set in the system.windows.forms section.
The application must also be compiled with debugging
enabled.
For example:
<configuration>
<system.windows.forms jitDebugging="true" />
</configuration>
When JIT debugging is enabled, any unhandled exception
will be sent to the JIT debugger registered on the computer
rather than be handled by this dialog box.




I gave it a small map for NYC in step one...

[in7ane]

deniska, the problem is this line:

31103,+,+

in NE_county_borders

I have also changed the program to give a more informative error and keep on going.

http://www.in7ane.com/psp/GeoData0.2.5a.zip

Guess I'll need to have a proper testing procedure in the future.

[rhipone]

Sorry, wrong post

[zsc]

Aside from the additional usbacc.prx and usbgps.prx and the different kernel in which the homebrew runs in, what are the differences between 0.460 and 0.461S? In terms of the functionality of the homebrew.

Obviously, one uses the PSP GPS-290 and the other Holux GPSlim 236/240.

I'm asking because I've been following the 0.461S/PSP GPS-290, but just now decided to get a Holux GPSlim 240 instead. I figured the bluetooth feature of the 240 will come in handy with my laptop with built-in bluetooth. Plus the fact that Play-asia is taking their sweet time with the PSP GPS-290, ordered it a week ago, isnt gonna be shipped out till next week.