Unofficial MapThis!! (gracefully finished)

[atari800]

No that cant be done - at least not yet.
Put it this way - ever see that mouse in a maze game? Starts at one end, and the finish line is the cheese? The mouse goes down just abut every route until it finds it. The PSP would need to read the color of the roads and try a million different journey for the right path
In addition to not sending you down the wrong way down a one way

[atari800]

just a few more things as mentioned
and hardly tested by driving around a bunch

But -
Bad news:
The recording of GPS traveling is broken
-How? I dunno

New stuff:
Better talking directions
Looks ahead a segment (within the speed area zone - which grows as you drive faster) and if it is a turn - speak it

Also auto reverse directions
Once it figures out that you are heading back it converts LEFT TURN to RIGHT TURN and vice-versa
(display panel still has original directions - I am having problems with strings and how to reword stuff)

Also cool feature SONAR PINGS
This works if there is a swerve ahead (Bink....Dooo---Bink...Dooo)
If there is a long straight away - nothing unless google put one there on the course plotted
and if directions are being spoke - it doesnt SONAR ping - made up 3 "talking methods" - well not really, I just kind of defined that way
playfile: this was in there already by MIB.42
---this play mp3 immediately
talktome: this play MP3's but can be interrupted bt playfile for an immediate phrase or sound
oktotalk: this plays phrase or sound if nothing is playing at the time

Added current directional plotted course
If you are on a winding road (like an S shaped road) - there are a bunch of points that make S turn. This will draw out your path in green UNLESS within 4 clicks and within the spped zone circle there is a turn, it will point to that and tell you LEFT TURN ahead or whatever. You need to see it to understand it... I used it in debugging and thought it was cool to leave in

bad news:
The map up mode does not have the speed circle - I am working on this
The directional plotter and the zone still work, just no circle...trying to figure out way still


Self Troubleshooting:
If this freezes when loading up a map the first time
or
freezes while drawing a map when "SATELLITES FOUND" is being announced...restart this and when you start again and select your map - as it is drawing the tiles - hit the square so it says "SEARCHING FOR SATELLITES" and it corrects this
...not sure whats up with that


Something cool I noticed:
When in the GPS info screen (where you see all the sats and if they are fixed or not), the SNR columns have values that fluctuate from 18'ish-40'ish
If I spin around slowly I can see them increase and decrease. I find I lock on quicker once I find direction that all seem to be at there highest values.
I was thinking - maybe an audible when it is searching for satellites making a higher tone to play based on all the values in the SNR column. So you can find your "sweet spot".

anyways - here is what I got - and am still working on this as I get time.

as always - place in your
PSP/GAME3xx/mapViewer directory and provide your own maps
and put a small mp3 called starup.mp3 in the mapViewer/system directory for a startup sound
*this seem to make it hang more often on startup - probably because there is a load of things loading as is

Enjoy
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[BaDaPpLe]

U on fire!!!!! great work man..

[atari800]

I seem to fix a lot of freeze by turning off caching in the CONFIG.TXT file:
CACHEMAPINDEX=1 <--- set this to zero

I *think* that was my issue when playing a long mp3 at splash screen and while it was loading a giant hybrid map

anyways...
still working on it

[Sinistar]

Hmm, I'm having a weird problem. I installed your custom Map this for the first time (using 3.40 OEA, 2 GB mem stick, and in the /psp/game340/mapViewer directory)
I provided my own maps,and even the same global map and NYC subway map, they run great the first time, but now when I try to run the map again, it says "please wait while the map is loading" and freezes/reboots PSP.. It doesn't seem like it's even accessing the memory stick to load the maps anymore.

Any idea what's going on?

Thanks in advance

[atari800]

Turn off caching (see above)

Turn off startup music - rename startup.mp3 to xstartup.mp3 (or any other name)

[hhormes]

Can someone please help me, I've had my Sony GPS device for over 3 weeks now, and I’ve never seen it work, i have tried everything, i have prob tried all the different versions of Mapthis,

Ok the issue is that it opens the mapthis, i can load the map but when i hit squire it says GPS on then nothing ever happens after that, i thought it may need time to find my position, so i left it on over night but that same thing.
And when i go to GPS info it takes a while but sometimes i get 1-5 satellites showing.

I have 3.40 OE-A, 4GB ms, map of New Zealand, Auckland and the Unofficial Mapthis!, and i have also tried 2 different Sony GPS devices thinking the first one may have been faulty.


So please help me, i want this to work so bad.

[Sinistar]

Turn off caching (see above)

Turn off startup music - rename startup.mp3 to xstartup.mp3 (or any other name)

OK that seemed to work, a little bit... The maps load, but the global map and the NYC subway map work, but sometime when sometimes when I zoom on the global map, the PSP freezes. It either shuts off, or it hard freezes and I have to "hard" reboot by removing the battery.

Then when I load it up again, the program freezes at that zoom level all the time, it's really weird. It;s like it remembers on that specific map what zoom level it was at last and tries to load it so it freezes.

Even on my Phoenix map I made, it loads the default far zoom level, but when I try to zoom in at all whatsoever, it starts to load (mem card light keeps blinking) but it never loads, and I have to hard reboot.

is there anything else I can try atari?

[atari800]

I noticed that too
I put in some "slow downs" to relax the program....maybe that was toooo much

huh...one would think giving the psp a moment to relax was not a bad thing.....ok psp knowledge 101..a good thing isnt






so psp is touchy....hmmm
all I did was add circles
maybe ..... it is something with zooming?????????????

Hey remember...there is the official version
that can be used....those guys are brilliant

...might be relaxing too much or playing too much at certain points

again...I AM A PLAYER.....NOT A DOER in this realm
I am working on it.............

[Sinistar]

OK, I've tried both the original one and your version and so far I've had better luck with yours. Mind you right now I'm just using it as a map viewer until I can afford the GPS.

I'll try to reinstall to see if that helps, but I'm not a programmer so I don't know what else to try.