Comments on: New release of xGPS Software

By: hryamzik

hryamzik — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 19:37:12 +0000

Well, maps.app shows maps/satelite/hybrid maps. It works with bookmarks. It’s useful.

There is a program called “maps offline” for using google cashes for maps.app. They should be prepared with a desktop program called “MapThis!”, windows only. And to have the ability to search for streets the other program should be used, and no way to have house numbers on offline mode. It took me several hours to prepare a simple offline map of my city.

By the way, MapThis! is quite a powerful tool, but too much things to do to have offline maps on an iphone. PC-less way is great, it’s a pity your program doesn’t have an ability to delete only unneeded pieces of maps.

Do you really store maps in a very different way than maps.app does? Probably maps offline could be tuned to import xgps’s cashes?

Unfortunately I’m far from iphone’s software development and can’t offer any help in that way.

By: Mathieu

Mathieu — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 13:29:37 +0000

Concerning the downloading software for the computer a draft version is finished we are now working the interface between the software and the iPhone. It will be released here (or elsewhere but a news will be posted here).

The maps managing will not be improved on the iphone because we are developing a more clever application which will run on the computer.

Also we will not make the downloaded maps compatible with the Apple map’s application as we don’t see the point to do it.

Concerning the russian localization, it would be very helpful. Please contact us using this page: http://www.xwaves.net/index.php?inc=contact

By: hryamzik

hryamzik — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:30:26 +0000

First of all, thanks for the great software! I do not have a gps module yet, looking forward for getting igpsd cable. But even now I have to use googlemaps and iphone 2g’s location service, so this software looks very useful even now.

Downloading maps feature is great, but downloading sometimes hangs, especially on a slow connection. Background download doesn’t work for a long time for me.

Managing looks strange, are you going to add more options? Just add and delete all…

It would be great to choose zoom levels and types of maps (satellite/map/hybrid)

As far as I understand xgps’s map cash is separated from google map’s one. Is it possible to copy maps downloaded by xgps software to maps.app? I’ve used mappsoffline before, it took too much time to prepare maps and it required a windows computer, “blah”…

Could I possibly help you with russian localization?

By: Kruisko

Kruisko — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:23:54 +0000

and, by the way, did you check my logfiles I send to you?

By: Kruisko

Kruisko — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 15:23:05 +0000

so, how is it going with the desktop-software for map-downloads?
is there a developersite on the net? or will it be released here?

By: Mathieu

Mathieu — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 13:22:26 +0000

Please ask this question to the iGPSD team directly. We don’t know nothing about these devices. We only do the software part. –> http://www.igpsd.com

By: Fernando

Fernando — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 12:54:33 +0000

Are all Holux GPS´s compatible or just M1000b and M1200b ?
Thanks in advance and good job

By: Mathieu

Mathieu — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:00:19 +0000

Yes it’s a known problem. It will be corrected in future version.

By: Efty Edge

Efty Edge — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:34:51 +0000

Hi,
first – great piece of software. but when i try to download a map, xgps always quit after a while. the size of the ‘broken’ map is than round about 14 mbytes. is this a know problem? i ask because my 3g has 10 gbytes free.

thanx in advance and keep going on.

efty

By: Chris2000

Chris2000 — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 16:42:38 +0000

In the last version u had that OSM button.
When will it be functional in the actual version?
Tnx