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[Milhause]

Milhouse, why do you run it at 1.50 kernel mode ? And what about that change of Baudrate ?

I get a bit tired of those 100 million configs.

"This motherboard with this prx file and this mapthis version and these loc settings".

Ok but i have some new experiences, 3.30 prx seems to have a VERY VERY high HDOP value, it's around 15 !!

I have seem that 1.50 kernel is very fast for fixing,
mian record is 1.32 min, but only one, never more.
Average 3min.

For gps 290 is baud rate 4800 and for Holux 236 is
38400

[BaDaPpLe]

Im not sure if this goes here or not but.....

Request:

Id like to see a speed setting that you could set in config say like "85" and if and when you reach that speed it could play a mp3 or somthing to the effect of "Slow Down!"

Mabey also a setting that would allow the data panels to be hidden at startup not popup in the way on startup.

Thanks guys for the constant work and upgrades.This app surly has come a looooong way.

[Codaz]

Thanks Milhause, i will try this baudrate and 1.5 kernel.

It's only a bit strange that the Mapthis father, Deniska, doesn't recommend using baudrate 4800 ?? Also not running it under 1.5x kernel.

[zeppyrkr]

Hey i just got my gps-290 , tested with green proggie and everything looks like its working perfect, but wait, longitude : -88.???? , negative that cant be right, do some searching ohh its the 2.71 prx's so well how about i just make my own 3.03 ones, ekkk those crash it, hmm well i have 3.10 oe a' so i guess 3.10 will be the best, green proggie test, longatitude ": -88.??? what the heck, still negative im in wisonsin and i know its not suppose to be negative well i generated a map out southern wisconsin and location is out of range so cant any one help me, ive tried almost every combination of prx's , only one i really havent tried is the mapplus one cause i cant find it, ive also tried map this .46 and the newest one, all say location out of range. help me!! i really want this to work,

[deniska]

I have seem that 1.50 kernel is very fast for fixing,
mian record is 1.32 min, but only one, never more.
Average 3min.

For gps 290 is baud rate 4800 and for Holux 236 is
38400

Baudrate does not apply to PSP-290 version, therefore it does not matter what you put in there....

[deniska]

zeppyrkr, see my explanation in the thread that you started in discussion forum

[deniska]

This might be an offline tool requirement, which converts the gps data to one of those formats...
The Holux version dumps NMEA, the 290 version the usbgetdata sentences. The latter is a sequence of 48 byte entries, with the following members and offsets :
short year : 0
short month : 2
short date : 4
short hour : 6
short minute : 8
short second : 10
float unknown : 12
float hdop : 16
float unknown : 20
float latitude : 24
float longitude : 28
float altitude : 32
float unknown : 36
float speed : 40
float bearing : 44

This should be a fairly trivial coding challenge...
Any volunteers?

PSP-290 data is not 100% NMEA compatible (some fields will be missing)
I believe that maplus software actually tries to generate nmea sentences but they hardcode certain things... So in theory, this could be done, but I would not rush in to it... Current PSP-290 raw format is easier to troubleshoot in case of the problem.
As it was mentioned already, gpslim versions should still record some basic nmea sentences (GPGGA, GPRMC), although I striped some of them (sat info, etc) to save space on MS...

[jorritprins]

PSP-290 data is not 100% NMEA compatible (some fields will be missing)
I believe that maplus software actually tries to generate nmea sentences but they hardcode certain things... So in theory, this could be done, but I would not rush in to it... Current PSP-290 raw format is easier to troubleshoot in case of the problem.
As it was mentioned already, gpslim versions should still record some basic nmea sentences (GPGGA, GPRMC), although I striped some of them (sat info, etc) to save space on MS...

Hello,

I contacted the guy (I spoke with Adam) from gpsvisualizer.com and he looked into my gps.txt file from my PSP-290. When you rename your rename the file into .PSP it will perfectly draw your path on a Google Earth Map!!! Works very nice!

I still would appreciate very much if there would be some sort of conversion tool with plain txt nmea sentences. Especially because I seem to loose sat fix I would like a possibility to manually extract the bad data. For me very difficult in a binary file (but I'm also not a very technical guy....).

I also noticed that gps data is reset when you switch off and on the gps record mode. Is there is possibility to save separate file gps1.txt gps2.txt for all record sessions? I think this would be a great additional functionality.

I tried some different INITLOCATION settings, but it still seems a long time to get a sat fix. For me in open air up to 4 minutes. With previous releases I used to have fixes within one minute... I hope this can be improved with the next release...

Enough complaining..... I'm extremely happy with this tool! Keep up the good (correction... EXCELLENT) work!!!:thumbup:

Greetings from the Netherlands,
JP

[deniska]

Unfortunately I don't have a 290, so I can't.

Deniska has one though...

MIB.42, I should have an extra psp-290 unit somethere in my appartment.. (curtesy of MapThis fans). If I find it - I don't mind shipping it to you, since you seem to contribute alot to code development lately. My only condition is - you may need to ship it back to me or other "active" MapThis dev if you loose interest in the project...
If this sounds ok to you - PM me your mailing address...

[MIB.42]

MIB.42, I should have an extra psp-290 unit somethere in my appartment.. (curtesy of MapThis fans). If I find it - I don't mind shipping it to you, since you seem to contribute alot to code development lately. My only condition is - you may need to ship it back to me or other "active" MapThis dev if you loose interest in the project...
If this sounds ok to you - PM me your mailing address...

Most appreciated, thank you. I am still looking around if one of my friends have one which I can borrow, when I fail to locate one and 290 dev becomes "critical" I'll take you up on the offer, thank you... I plan on wrapping up the mp3 integration today.

btw, your PM mailbox was full a few days ago, it didn't let me to reply to your message... that few days was a long vacation for the fans... ;-)