A couple of Mapsonic/Palm Questions

DennyL · Regular Visitor Joined: Jan 24, 2004 Posts: 114

I've just bought Mapsonic, and am really enjoying using it.

The manual doesn't say anything about the size of the files that one creates when one makes selections in Mapstore. I assume that one has to be sure that the resulting Palm file is smaller than the amount of free RAM that one has. I can't imagine it being any other way, but in some discussions I've read some people refer to selecting huge geographical regions, and I wonder what file sies they are working with.

My other question is: in the File>open dialogue there is the option to select 'CARD1'. I have map files on my card (which is called 'CARD2'!), but it doesn't find them; but then there is nowhere in Mapsonic that I've found to tell it where they are. so where must one put map files of one's card for Mapsonic to find them?

bgulien · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 07, 2003 Posts: 13

Hi,

The filesize is dependent of the free ram you have left on your Palm (which is small) or your card.
I use 256 Mb cards and still you cannot get the whole of britain on this.
I think it's an ommision of Mapstore to not show you the sizwe before you export it.
It takes a lot of experimenting to cut the region to the size you can export.
Once you have done that , you click the export to pda button.
Then you go to the Palm Sync programme where you can choose where you want the maps to go.
Have the card in the Palm and you can choose the card as the repository of the maps.

I have several cards with different regions on them and when you open Mapsonic you can see the card in the window. You choose the card and you're in bussiness.
Hope this answers your question. Else let me know.

DennyL · Regular Visitor Joined: Jan 24, 2004 Posts: 114

Thanks for all that, Bgulien. So far, when I've defined maps I want to install on my Palm I've said 'No' when Mapstore asks whether I want to install them on the Palm because it says it will delele them from the desktop, and I want to keep them there as the main depository of my maps. I then copy them to the the card with Card Export, or my card reader or whatever. So of course Mapsonic doesn't know where they are. Can you tell me where it puts them?

I saw a discussion on www.gpspassion.com (a French site) about long route calculation times. Someone said that when you have a map of the whole of France it takes, like, six minutes to calculate a route. Well, I carved out just the Paris region and it is 33Mb, so I can't imagine how you'd get all of France into Palm RAM.

bgulien · Occasional Visitor Joined: Dec 07, 2003 Posts: 13

Hi DennyL,

I really don't know where Mapsonic puts the file.
If you look at the card from PalmOs it's giving nothing away. Probably hidden files.
Maybe someone with more knowledge of PalmOs knows something about it?
The whole of France is about 300Mb (give or take a few) so you never be able to put that in the Palm. You need at least an 512 Mb card.
It takes forever to export it and I can imagine it takes forever to calculate a route between 2 points.
I am located in the Netherlands and a calculation between 2 points takes about 2 minutes. And that's a small country.

Mspn · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 09, 2004 Posts: 2

browman · Occasional Visitor Joined: Apr 13, 2004 Posts: 3

In practice I've found that multiple small maps are better than one large one. You can make one up that contains all of england and wales, but then the application slows down to an absolute crawl. Best to stick to 2-3 counties at a time, especially around major cities. I make up custom maps if I know I'm going outside of the local area, with a corridor highlighting the main route.

Batchpad · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 04, 2005 Posts: 14

Please can anyone tell me what is the max file size which can be viewed on a T/E?

I have version 1.3 and want to load England onto it but keep getting the error - not enough memory.

Also, if the map is split down to 2-3 counties how do you calculate a longer route?

And finally, does anyone know a gps feceiver which works with the T/E?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks

Honda · Regular Visitor Joined: Apr 26, 2005 Posts: 61

Reply in your other post.

Batchpad · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 04, 2005 Posts: 14

Thanks Honda

Cacus · Occasional Visitor Joined: Jun 10, 2005 Posts: 5

Hi.

On the subject of calculation times, if on the palm you go to file>parameters, then you can change the Calc. Extent to Limited. This will cut down on calc times, and still seams to give you the most direct route.

Steve

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