MAP THIS! version 0.461S (beta) with support for PSP-290 GPS accessory

[bigsness]

To my best knowlege there is no reliable free data nor open source implementation of route calculation feature.
Of course this question was answered a number of times already which leads me to a following request:

I need someone, who wants to contribute to this project to browse the forums and compile a list of FAQ with the answers...

I will take a crack at this for you.

[bigsness]

On a separate note, I'm trying to create a geodata.dat file using Cygwin but kept getting error. Has anyone successfully created a geodata.dat file?

I copied the geocoder folder from MapThis_0.46 to the /home folder in Cygwin and using this command at the prompt (while in the /geocoder folder),

./geo-map.sh CA.

and I am getting this,

rm: cannot remove 'temp': No such file or directory
./geo-map.sh: line 10: wget: command not found
Extracting tiger data 17:20:47
find: ./temp: No such file or directory
\nCreating zip files...
cat: ./tmp.932/*.step1: No such file or directory
rm: cannot remove './tmp.932/*.step1': No such file or directory

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

You need to install 'wget' in cygwin. Which is why you get this error: ./geo-map.sh: line 10: wget: command not found.

[Zoen]

ok got the geo-map thing working thanks bigsness

[zsc]

you got the LOOKUP working? The Reverse LOOKUP works for me. But my PSP keeps shutting down when I try to look up an address.

Also, I still cannot seem to get any usbgps.prx (other than 2.71 usbgps.prx) working. I haven't got the GPS module yet, Play-Asia aint shipping it out for another 2 weeks. So, could that be the reason it's not working? Could anyone else confirm by running 3.00+ usbgps.prx without the GPS module?

[Zoen]

i havent got it all working yet, still working on getting all the right files when i do i'll let you know how it works



edit- after running the command ./geo-map.sh OH in Cygwin and downloading all the stuff from census.gov i have in my folder a 1KB geodata.dat file so i dunno what im doing

[nikko74]

OK, it's finally working... I'm using an euro PSP, with a jap PSP-290 receptor, and both fw 3.03 prx. I live in France. Except the fact that the red marker is often "in the neighborhood" of the road (not exactly over, but perhaps it's because i tried it in my small village, in the Alps... Thanks GoogleMap !), i can tell you it's fine ! Just a question :
In Mapthis, i must begin to select 'GPS INFO' untill Sats are in view (7 or 8, great !) and fixed (never more than 3 or 4, but it's enough), then pushing SELECT to go back to the map. If i don't do that, my psp crashes after 5 or 10 minutes... Is it normal ?

Best regards, Deniska, and thanks a lot for this great work !:thumbup: :thumbup:

[zsc]

maybe Ohio is really small...not too many people. just kidding, I'm compiling CA right now. The two geodata.dat files i downloaded were both 24.3MB, i'll try OH afterward.

[zsc]

Finished compiling, got a geodata.dat with size 1kb, and about 300MB in a temp folder.

Anyone knows why?

[wmwoon]

is it me or is it juz the location? coz here in singapore, i can't get any fix at all...hmm...
still trying though...

[dcemuUser25]

Try to change INITLOCATION variable in the system.conf and see if you get better results..

Hi Deniska,

I have tried all the values and nothing seems to help. The green proggie is still faster at all times.

In any case, if I wait a while, I can still get a fix, just slower. Another problem is when I add waypoints, the program just crashes. Has this problem already been known?

Thanks.