On Sunday 29 March 2009 05:58:27 pm Mark Haury wrote: > Tim Ashman wrote: > > On Sunday 29 March 2009 10:25:13 am Christoph Eckert wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >>> Another question. I can't seem to add POI's In maemo mapper. Is > >>> there another tool that can create a POI from within mapper. > >> > >> at least there's track => add marker. But the feature seems to be broken > >> anyway: > >> https://garage.maemo.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=2602&group_id > >>=29 &atid=185 > >> > >> I do not know of any other application that can record waypoints (and > >> I'm currently playing with some pymaemo code as I'm looking for such a > >> feature as well :). > >> > >> HTH & best regards, > >> > >> ce > > > > Ok, I'll just have to keep track manually. > > > > thanks again > > > > tim > > Waypoints and track points are not the same thing. Maemo Mapper keeps > automatic track logs just fine. Waypoints/POIs can be entered by just > tap-holding and in the resulting menu click on Tap Point->Add POI... You > can then change/adjust the coordinates if needed or even enter > coordinates somewhere else completely. That's an easy way to enter > custom POIs for any location you choose. RoadMap works similarly. > > If you're talking about downloading general POIs for an area, Maemo > Mapper does a pretty good job of that as well. First select the types > you want in main menu->POI->Categories... Then go to main > menu->POI->Download... You can also import POIs from files. > > If you really mean that you want to record tracks as waypoints rather > than track points, that's another story. I don't know of any application > at all, even for PC, that will do that. It shouldn't be difficult to > convert them, though, especially if you are importing the track logs > into some other software. > > Mark > _______________________________________________
No you hit it on the head. I feel so stupid, I tried clicking on my current position before I guess I just didn't hold it long enough. Thank you. I'll be able to have the locations in mapper without needing anything else. tim _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@maemo.org https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
