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| Subject: | Map organizer - offline maps - MOBAC | |
envijion 16:43 Location: | Hello Developers, I am new to TMJ and quite impressed what it can do for me! I have some problems with loss of the GPS signal, but that is true for other apps as well and seems to be an issue of Blackberry 9900 with OS 7.X. I have tried to create offline maps with map organizer. To my understanding I need to create and export a map for each zoom level and then, maybe, join them to a sort of atlas. Prevoiously I worked with Mobile Atlas Creator (http://mobac.sf.net) which IMHO does the same but much more convenient. While I highly appreciate the possibility to import my own maps, may I suggest to modify MOBAC to export TMJ-files for OSM downloads? The application is available and free and quite comfortable. Best regards, Joey | |
Stephen 19:04 Location: Phone Model: | Hi Joey, Actually you can use MOBAC for TMJ already (yes, it is much more convenient to use than the Map Organizer)!! Create a map and export it using the 'Mobile Trail Explorer' format. This will then create a hierachy of folders in z/c/r format (zoom level/column/row.png). Save this folder structure onto the phones memory card than select the root folder (the one with the zoom level numbers) in the TMJ Map Screen [6] context menu/Raster Map Source/Offline/Select z-c-r Folder... Hope it helps! Cheers, Stephen (For the GPS problems you might experiment with the Menu/GPS/GPS Options/Force 1 Sec Refresh option. I had to add this for OS6 but I'm not sure if OS7 prefers it to be ticked or not... Restart TMJ after changing it then see how it goes...) | |
envijion 12:32 Location: | Hi Stephen, thanks a lot, this might help, the download is running! Maybe it would pay off to have the MOBAC developers create a specific TMJ-output-format. The output settings for 'Mobile Trail Explorer' seems to fix the tile size and does not allow reduction of color depth to 8 bit in order to reduce file size. I am still experimenting with the GPS-problem. So far the 'force 1 sec refresh' option does not seem to have any influence. Cheers, Joey | |
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