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

[JoQ]

sure i'll keep you updated.
btw i found it for a nice price, 54$ and only 8$ for the freight (?). Think thats a nice price :P

[zsc]

Just wanted to let people know that MapThis also works with other GPS receiver in addition to the PSP290. If you will be using the PSP & GPS receiver only for GPS purpose and not for games, you might want to check out the Holux GPSlim 236 or GPSlim 240 before purchasing the PSP290. See if your local GPS receiver retailer have them. For these 'generic' GPS receiver, you'll also need a special cable that can be home-made or purchased from the internet.

[Codaz]

My setup is not working as it should:

I have a PSP-290, with firmware 3.10OE-A'

I used the green proggie with the supplied 2.71 prx files, works perfectly. Finds 5 sattelites.

If i launch Mapthis 0.461S it works too (with a map made by GMDL 0.48b).

Updated to 0.48, works with loading the map (finally !!, make sure the map is fine !)

0.48 is still buggy, random chrashes occur !

But, the signal strenght meter isn't working. It stays at 0 blocks.

Also, i can't get a fixed signal.

[zsc]

is FAKEFEED=0 in mapViewer\system\config.txt? anything in GPS info (access it via Start menu)?

try setting INITLOCATION=0 also

[Codaz]

Fakefeed was always 0.

GPS state = off, but now the program hangs if i zoom in (common problem)

I will try again as soon as i will make a larger trip with our car, because i didn't get a sat fix.

[Codaz]

WOOOW, i made a large trip about 2 hours ago, and mapthis worked :thumbup: GPS is soo nice Handy if it's very dark and rainy outside.

I experienced a LOT of difference between the green proggie and Mapthis 0.47 !

My final working setup:

PSP 3.10OE-A'
No ta-082
Mapthis 0.47 (0.48 chrashes too much)
GMDL 0.49B

Prx files from 2.71 (supllied with green proggie)

Sattelite finding takes a LOT of time, my neighbour laughed at me :rofl: because his little tomtom one was setup in only a minute, and my PSP-290 antenna didn't work for the first FIVE minutes because it did get 4 or 5 sattelites within the first 2 minutes, but it didn't get a fix !!

After 5 minutes you have 3 or 4 fixes.

I drove around almost 2 hours and my experiences is that the money on the psp-290 are well spend, compared to a 499 euro tomtom.

BUT, sat fixing needs to be 300% quicker, and accuracy is not always good. For example, i drove up an intersection of 4 roads, and the map shows im 80 meters in front of it.

The difference between you and the map is (according to signal strength) between 20 and 80 meters.

Too bad there is no geodata for the Netherlands.

A few words of advice to Deniska and/or Mi52:

-Make scrolling under GPS mode possible
-Speed is displaying in miles ? In green proggie it displays in Km/h ?

-I finally found the bug that is (85% of the time) chrashing Mapthis (versions 41 to 48):
If you havn't downloaded all zoom levels, and zoom in at a zoom level where is no data to display, you psp freezes and shuts off. And yes i have the correct file blank.png from release 0.47

For now i'm going to sleep, this weekend i will try to make some POI's and routes . (Why are petrol stations not visible )

And also try some prx files from Versions 3.03 and 3.10, see if that matters.

[deniska]

Codas,
thank you for your report and time spent testing the program.
Here is some answers/coments to your questions and observations:

-satellite aquisition: I am getting mixed results myself (not only with MapThis but official Maplus too).. I blame it mostly to PSP-290 inferior sencitivity. You may speed up the "warm up" time by playing with the INITLOCATION parameter in config.txt . "1" seems to work the best for me..

-presision: this could be because of weak signal (HDOP value is >4) or vendor mapping errors (yes google, msn, yahoo are not always provide good mapping data!!!)...

You should be able to display speed and distances in KM/h and KM (check out config.txt)

-I am looking in to patching the crashes in psp-290 version (it is marked as beta, so use at your own risk)

[JoQ]

Codaz, thanks for the tip, i aint got my PSP-290 yet but i changed version from 0.48 to 0.47 and the 2.71 prx, now it's working much better than before, no crashes yet!

[Codaz]

Yup, now my initlocation is set to 0, ZSC tipped me that.
But i'm going to change it to 1.

I forgot to mention: my psp-290 is a japan import, from ebay.
But deniska i don't think there is a difference between your play-asia model and mine.

I didn't knew what HDOP value was, but it was between 1.4 and 6 So yes that isn't good.

What very strange is is that if mapthis chrashes, and then you hard reboot the psp, load mapthis, load the map, then it will find the sat locations within 20 seconds :O

Like if they are still stored in the antenna or something.

I noticed that the antenna gets a bit warmer than if turned off.

Battery life is very good, you have almost 5 hours, with a full standard psp battery.

Maybe i will buy a 3200mah, or a car charger.

[JoQ]

Is there any possiblity that sometime in the future you will add support for Swedish characters åäö (ÅÄÖ)?
That would be fantastic, i've missed that for maps and POI's and so on!

Thanks Deniska!