What is the proper maptile format so that andnav2 can read the tiles? For some reason, my copy of andnav2 can read google maps, etc just fine but not yahoo map tiles created in trekbuddy. I'm definitely saving the tiles in andnav format in both cases. However, the yahoo tiles save as XX.jpg.andnav and the google tiles save as xx.png.andnav. Does andnav only recognize png? Even when I have the tiles set to save as png in the layers settings in trekbuddy, the yahoo maps still don't display or even appear to save as png. I got it to work once (I swear) but I don't recall how. Any advice? Perhaps there is an alternative to andnav I can use for offline map browsing and gps tracking? I don't need the turn by turn features, just the ability to view a map and my gps position on said map and I prefer yahoo maps because they take up way less space than google. There must be something I'm missing or don't understand about doing this.
I did post this on the andnav forum some time ago but that place is as active as a country road in winter.
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Got a question. How hard would it be to develop a program/code for the G1s internal SAT only GPS to use SD stored MAP/s?
I am using the G1 without a data plan and have seen Google Maps over my home Wi-Fi. Now I noticed that in Google Maps program you can clear the Map with the [More] menu option or rather you wont have a map if you don’t have G3 or W/LAN, however with GPS enabled (SATS only) you can still see your heading bug or (circle where you are) on the screen with grid lines under it. If you move around the heading bug moves with you. So what’s that for other than to have some other Maps overlaid? If not then what’s the point in having a heading bug move over grid lines that only lets you know your moving (that is with no map)
Hmmm
Why cant another menu option be add to the OS that gives you a [Cache Maps] selection in Map mode (GPS SATs only ok even aGPS). Allowing the third party maps to be stored on the micro SD card and selectable. I would prefer the maps (just regular maps not SAT picture maps) to have limited zoom capability say 5 mile legend minimum to limit size. I am not asking for a full blown third part GPS navigation program with turn by turn and search just a nice minimum zoom map overlay so I can see where I am at.
Any comments
Or is there something already out there that I don’t know about.
Ok sorry there is and its called [AndNav2] see the link below:
http://www.andnav.org/
While waiting this morning on something, I sketched up a tool to quickly mark spots you're at. Unlike regular GPS loggers, it just tags and saves locations (I frequently need something like this on bike tours).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tjq9WiGEuGA (outdated)
http://social.zune.net/redirect?type=phoneApp&id=ee9c5dae-9fea-df11-9264-00237de2db9e
Tom Servo said:
While waiting this morning on something, I sketched up a tool to quickly mark spots you're at. Unlike regular GPS loggers, it just tags and saves locations (I frequently need something like this on bike tours).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tjq9WiGEuGA
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Looks good. May I suggest enabling the correction features on the keyboard in the Name textbox. (Change the InputScope property)
Sure, why not.
Looks pretty handy.
Is there a way to get directions to the saved spot in bing maps?
Not sure. Trying to invoke the installed Bing Maps with a target location isn't something I thought of or know if it's possible (I figure it should be).
Added some functionality. And I figured, why not put that silly EOS 550D of mine to use, instead of capturing the emulator. Praise my girly hands.
http://youtu.be/mpUQUWRyyJs
Marketplace has already v1.0, without description field and photos.
Giving it another look. Hitting the marketplace soon.
Old 'n' Busted!
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Looks really nice and useful.
What methods are there for exporting that data? Sharing via e-mail? SMS? Would be nice if it could also be exported directly to Bing Maps (My Places) or Google Maps (Starred), if even possible. Or even if you could import locations from those services.
Also, is saving locations based on GPS only? Or can you manually input and specify the location on a map (I suppose it'd be like dragging and dropping a pin on a map and saving that location)?
-sigh- if only all Windows Phone 7 developers could do UI like you seem to be capable of doing.
I haven't thought much of exporting yet, altho I have something on my mind. I figure exporting all of it in a KML via e-mail might be an idea, but if there are a lot of photos, it'd end up in a huge package, tho.
Locations are purely GPS based right now.
Hi. This looks nice. Shame there's no trial though. Does it use Bing maps for the map images or Google maps (or another service)?
Thanks
Bing maps. I could make it use a different tile source, but I'm not sure how Google feels about it, since it's against their ToS.
Just bought this app, not sure what I'll use it for but it looks great!
The update with the prettified UI has been submitted since a few days and is in testing apparently, but nothing happened as of now. The other versions passed testing rather quickly, this is mostly an UI update only, not sure why it's stuck in limbo.
Submitted an update today, probably available in a day or two.
Added a trial mode, allowing marking up to 5 spots. Added an options dialog to change GPS behaviour in background as well as changing distance units (kinda required, since it was Meters up until now and I sold the most to the US). And pinpoints in the full map are clickable now.
Version 1.4:
- Does resolve coordinates to addresses using the Bing SOAP webservice now. Happens retroactively on existing spots.
- Ability to send your current location to someone else via SMS and E-mail. Retrieves the actual address if the GPS accuracy becomes better than 150m. Adds a Google Maps link to the message pointing to the coordinates.
- Can also send stored locations, but formats them like current location messages thanks to late night coding dizzyness.
http://social.zune.net/redirect?type=phoneApp&id=ee9c5dae-9fea-df11-9264-00237de2db9e
Version 1.5:
- Can choose now, what service to use to create map links in SMS/E-mails (Bing, Google, OSM). Note: Bing doesn't have a mobile map site. If the receiving mobile gets a Bing link and identifies as smartphone to the website, Bing will mess it up and show a search site.
- Can save photos to the pictures hub now.
- Alternative coordinate formats. DMS, UTM and MGRS (both military). North and south poles aren't covered in the military ones. Examples:
Regular/Decimal: 50.71625 - 6.01385
DMS (Degrees, Minutes, Seconds): 50°42'59"N 6°00'50"E
UTM: 32 U 289206 5622525
MGRS: 32UKB8920622525
Version 1.6 somewhen in a few weeks will limit sending adhoc locations. Currently, it's unlimited in trial.
1.6 is out. It was held up a long time with certification not pleased with the privacy policies I kept writing up, after being required one out of the blue.
Anyway:
- Distance math is fixed. It was off by half, no one apart two people seemed to have noticed.
- Option to add photos from the phone' library to locations as option in the menu roll-up.
Upcoming:
- Google and OSM image data as alternative options. (Works already)
- Custom pinpointing of a location on a map.
If this is the wrong place for this question please move it.
I had My Maps Editor for Android on my old phone and used it to record locations that were of interest to me (work stuff like job location or substations and local offices.) Now I see that it no longer exists. I still need to edit My Maps when I'm on the go. T-Mobile doesn't have the best coverage in MS or even have good roaming. Sending My Location to Evernote I'm able to work around not having My Maps Editor by editing when I get back home. Not having a signal it makes the My Location greyed out. Is there a program that allows saving a Location even offline?
I'll look around and see if I can find an app that does this but I'm not aware of one. Also, you posted in the right section
I have My Tracks but it looks a little bulky for what I want. It can send to My Maps and can edit it. I just don't need a route.
After doing a little test, using My Tracks is going to be the solution I go with. Too bad though because using My Location from Google Maps, a program I use all the time, would have been perfect. It only takes a little editing on the PC to make it like I want it to read.
Well the test was skewed. I couldn't reproduce the results lol. I downloaded Inserty and it allowed me to post to my Evernote my location (with some acuracy.) Still can't edit the maps. Not even going to maps.google.com which should. It won't allow real web browsing on that site for some reason.
New user and I've figured out some stuff but I'm still learning. Tried Glance and am currently using Canvas but one thing I can't seem to get is the weather. It differs on every app I use and is seldom the same as what is showing on my phone. I'd like to get an accurate weather forecast! How do I do that? Are there apps that do weather that I can use outside the 'stock' ones. I have an analog face I'd like to keep but without the weather I'm not so sure.
OK. Seriously? Is there an embargo on answering weather questions? Some taboo I'm not aware of? Cuz I can't get an answer to save my life! Anywhere!
Weather will differ on every app because of several variables:
The apps may be using different sources for weather (e.g. Yahoo, Google, AccuWeather, Weather Channel, etc.) Each service has slightly different data. Even on your phone if you install different weather apps, they will seldom agree 100%.
The refresh period may be set to a long time (e.g. 2-3 hours) to prevent battery drain, and hence you will not get up-to-date information. Some watch apps give you ability to configure this, while others use a hard-coded interval.
Some apps allow you to specify a Zip code, or latitude/longitude coordinates, but most simply use your phone's approximate location to retrieve local weather data. Your location will be inaccurate most of the time, since the apps usually avoid using GPS to once again avoid draining the phone's battery, and instead use cell/WiFi triangulation. This is why sometimes you may even be getting weather data for a different city.
Weather in general is not an exact science, so an "accurate forecast" is a pipe dream.
Chahk said:
Weather will differ on every app because of several variables:
The apps may be using different sources for weather (e.g. Yahoo, Google, AccuWeather, Weather Channel, etc.) Each service has slightly different data. Even on your phone if you install different weather apps, they will seldom agree 100%.
The refresh period may be set to a long time (e.g. 2-3 hours) to prevent battery drain, and hence you will not get up-to-date information. Some watch apps give you ability to configure this, while others use a hard-coded interval.
Some apps allow you to specify a Zip code, or latitude/longitude coordinates, but most simply use your phone's approximate location to retrieve local weather data. Your location will be inaccurate most of the time, since the apps usually avoid using GPS to once again avoid draining the phone's battery, and instead use cell/WiFi triangulation. This is why sometimes you may even be getting weather data for a different city.
Weather in general is not an exact science, so an "accurate forecast" is a pipe dream.
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Understand that. The apps I'm using all use one of two weather programs (Yahoo or OPenweather), you can set the refresh interval (I use one hour). You can choose My Location but I think that's not working the way it should. You can also put in geo coordinates but I'm trying to not get locked into a fixed location if I can. And if you use geo's they are only going to go to the nearest reporting node. I don't want accurate as much as consistent. Where I work is always 5 degrees hotter than where I live. It's also possible the app doesn't work as well as it should.
Absent of any suggestions I guess this will be "the annoyance" for me. Everyone's gotta have one!
As part of my wake up profile, (the tasks for which I have written or poached and modified) the profile resets volumes, display brightness, enables autosync, toggles radios, etc. When the alarm sounds and is dismissed, my phone greets me with well wishes while it retrieves a number of files including a weather.gov RSS forecast for my area. It feeds the result to a text to speech service so that I can listen to my favorite morning weather, news and hear my calendar agenda while getting ready. But there is a problem.
I need different weather updates when navigating just like I only need the next calendar event (Location info is passed to Maps), instead of the whole day's agenda. I don't want to run a weather app because I am trying to conserve resources and most of the good ones are memory and battery hogs. Besides, I'm doing other things with my phone and when driving. I'm focusing on a 'hands-free' experience.
The site: http://w1.weather.gov/xml/current_obs/index.xml; is an index of US weather stations tagged with Lat/Lon coordinates that gives current local weather observations. They are ordered alphabetically by <state> and <station_name>, so 'AK' (Alaska) and 'Adak Island, Adak Airport' is the first <station> after the header information. Of the 2257 stations in the file, each 10 line segment looks like this:
<station>
<station_id>PADK</station_id>
<state>AK</state>
<station_name>Adak Island, Adak Airport</station_name>
<latitude>51.87778</latitude>
<longitude>-176.64583</longitude>
<html_url>http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/PADK.html</html_url>
<rss_url>http://weather.gov/xml/current_obs/PADK.rss</rss_url>
<xml_url>http://weather.gov/xml/current_obs/PADK.xml</xml_url>
</station>
First, what is the best method for searching and parsing a file this big in Tasker?
Second, the task should also use route and speed info (If moving) to facilitate another search to the closest stations to upcoming way-points or destination.
OK, the game has changed...
There may be a simple way around using the NWS XML index file to harvest the RSS link. A Google Maps intent to query for National Weather Service will show the nearest one to the GPS data sent. Each location links to srh.noaa.gov/XXX on its 'side panel' (tap the marker), where the three letter designation for that station can be parsed and substituted in the standard RSS link, e.g.,
Code:
http://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=NWS&issuedby=HGX&product=AFD&format=CI&version=1&glossary=0
Where HGX indicates the Houston/Galveston station transmitter.
Now the problem becomes how to grab the link displayed on the MAPS side panel for that NWS locations website.
ManagementCritic said:
As part of my wake up profile, (the tasks for which I have written or poached and modified) the profile resets volumes, display brightness, enables autosync, toggles radios, etc. When the alarm sounds and is dismissed, my phone greets me with well wishes while it retrieves a number of files including a weather.gov RSS forecast for my area. It feeds the result to a text to speech service so that I can listen to my favorite morning weather, news and hear my calendar agenda while getting ready. But there is a problem.
I need different weather updates when navigating just like I only need the next calendar event (Location info is passed to Maps), instead of the whole day's agenda. I don't want to run a weather app because I am trying to conserve resources and most of the good ones are memory and battery hogs. Besides, I'm doing other things with my phone and when driving. I'm focusing on a 'hands-free' experience.
The site: http://w1.weather.gov/xml/current_obs/index.xml; is an index of US weather stations tagged with Lat/Lon coordinates that gives current local weather observations. They are ordered alphabetically by <state> and <station_name>, so 'AK' (Alaska) and 'Adak Island, Adak Airport' is the first <station> after the header information. Of the 2257 stations in the file, each 10 line segment looks like this:
<station>
<station_id>PADK</station_id>
<state>AK</state>
<station_name>Adak Island, Adak Airport</station_name>
<latitude>51.87778</latitude>
<longitude>-176.64583</longitude>
<html_url>http://weather.noaa.gov/weather/current/PADK.html</html_url>
<rss_url>http://weather.gov/xml/current_obs/PADK.rss</rss_url>
<xml_url>http://weather.gov/xml/current_obs/PADK.xml</xml_url>
</station>
First, what is the best method for searching and parsing a file this big in Tasker?
Second, the task should also use route and speed info (If moving) to facilitate another search to the closest stations to upcoming way-points or destination.
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AutoTools has a JSON/RSS/XML reader option that easily parses this kind of information. Give that a shot. It's in beta so you'll have to go to joaomgcd's website to grab it.