TrekBuddy

nyooc · Joined: 01 Dec 2010 Posts: 6 Location: Budapest

Thanks very much for the quick fix, but it still did not work. Dear MartinZ, don't bother about this any more, go on with the main development, and I'm gonna use the other machine.

It came to my mind that not so long ago I had another big trouble on the same computer with the Blackberry Device Manager 6.0, also written in .NET. It just crashed on program start and there was no way to do anything about it. On the BB forums, a lot of people experienced the same, and it seemed that the cause might be some kind of incompatibility between different .NET environment versions. So maybe it's the same phenomenon here, there are too many .NET runtimes on that machine...

MartinZ · Joined: 23 May 2008 Posts: 154 Location: Germany

As I said, I did not really expect the patch to fix your problem, it was just a try, cause there was this little bug anyway.

I'm already at work for next version.

poutnikl · Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 7:02 am Post subject:

Could be there put a short summary about the tool in the first post for newcomers ?

General purpose is intuitively clear - grabing various Google maps.
But if I use MobAC and if I will decide to DL some Gmaps,
it is not clear if better to switch to Googleak.NET or not.

Maybe they are equivalent, maybe not.

guest · Joined: 08 Oct 2006 Posts: 3948

You can use the manual, downloadable from first posting.

One advantage of Googleak.NET ist, that atlases can grow and are not re-created every time.

poutnikl · Posted: Mon Dec 06, 2010 7:38 am Post subject:

I see - I have missed it. thanks
But anyway it would be handy, few text lines is often better than downloading 2 MB of PDF.

bogi · Joined: 10 Jun 2008 Posts: 148 Location: Slovakia

I mean the PDF guide from MartinZ is very well done and nicely formatted.
2MB in 2010 is really no much data.

Install PDF plugin into your web browser and use tabbed browsing.

poutnikl · Posted: Wed Dec 08, 2010 7:04 am Post subject:

I have no problem with PDF and downloading it and I agree the tutorial is done very well.

All I wanted to say it is always a good idea for any software
to have basic info available without download extra stuff.

MartinZ · Joined: 23 May 2008 Posts: 154 Location: Germany

poutnikl wrote:

poutnikl · Posted: Thu Dec 09, 2010 2:12 pm Post subject:

Possibly this can be added too...
Trekbuddy wiki - Googleak.NET article

guest · Joined: 08 Oct 2006 Posts: 3948

Hello Martin,

as Christmas is approaching, here my secret wishlist for GoogleAK.net:

- simple moving map capability, i.e. possibility to link to a GPS with a nice cursor showing position (I think this was possible in the old GoogleAK...but not sure whether it actually worked for me)
- a possibilty to export larger chunks of maps to Ozi, that are then automatically split into tiles say size 8000x8000 and a bit of overlap.

Just for curiosity, have you planned to implement some of this some day? ...no, not before Christmas this year for sure. Even without this you've created a great tool!

All the best, Claus

MartinZ · Joined: 23 May 2008 Posts: 154 Location: Germany

Hi (Santa-)Claus

guest · Joined: 08 Oct 2006 Posts: 3948

Hi,
it's "me" again ;)
Just downloaded and tried 1.5.2.1 and found the first two bugs fixed:

guest · Joined: 08 Oct 2006 Posts: 3948

Hello Martin,
[quote]This is planned for the future of the "TB-Atlas-Explorer". But it is not so easy for me, cause I do not have a PC-connected GPS. So I must use GPX-file-recordings or so.
In old Googleak.NET is was not possible - at least there is no code in the source, that olegich left us behind. [/quote]
You must be right, now I remember: the GPS add-on was for Wikimapia, not the old googleak.
[quote]
[quote] a possibilty to export larger chunks of maps to Ozi, that are then automatically split into tiles say size 8000x8000 and a bit of overlap. [/quote]
not thought about that so far. I do not have OziEplorer myself. [/quote]
I don´t use Ozi either, being one of the remaining Fugawi users:-) As you write yourself in the tutorial, the jpgs can get quite big - too big e.g. for my EEEPC to digest. Hence the proposal to split big tiles into smaller somewhat overlapping ones, that are then loaded by Ozi or in my case Fugawi as needed when moving around. Guess this would only require some loop operation to be integrated.

(sorry, I´m afraid quoting has not worked as intended...)
Regards, Claus

MartinZ · Joined: 23 May 2008 Posts: 154 Location: Germany

Hi "guest",

i see your problem.
Perhaps as a first "workaround" you can configure the TrekBuddy-Map-Export to a big "slice size". Then you result in a map with very big tiles.
I tried this with 8192*8192 on an export-selection area of 16298*10561 today.
Output was 4 map tiles, 2 of them 8192*8192 the othe two were smaller.
That's not completely what you want, cause you only get 1 ".map" file for this 4 map-PNGs.
But you can edit/create the map-files easily with a standard editor to get the 4 ".map" files you need.

cheers, MartinZ

guest · Joined: 08 Oct 2006 Posts: 3948

[quote="MartinZ"]
Perhaps as a first "workaround" you can configure the TrekBuddy-Map-Export to a big "slice size". Then you result in a map with very big tiles.
[/quote]

Hello Martin,
thanks for this - actually I had never bothered to try out the TB export button, only now after your advice I realise it´s as well producing Ozi inputs. Good stuff!
Regards Claus

NB Sorry, still don´t get the quotes appearing correctly:-(