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Looking for London street maps on K750i |
etaab
Joined: Jan 23, 2004
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From: UK - South Yorkshire
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Yes, it does work. Ive done a similar thing in the past.
When i went cycling in the countryside with friends a couple of years ago, i copy and pasted maps from a map website into paint shop pro.
Then, i simply pasted them all together to make a massive 1281x750 pixel image. It was about 1mb in file size.
Then i simply transferred it to my PDA and used it whilst we were out, zooming in on the bits needed.
It beats paying £££'s for expensive software IMO when you can simply stitch a map together in 10 minutes. 
All you need to do is, take a picture with your K750i. Transfer it to your pc. Then fill the whole 1632x1224 image with your map and save it. Then simply transfer it back to your phones camera pictures folder, and voila ! you can have a 1632x1224 size map on your phone.
For some reason, the K750i will only recognise pictures in the camera pictures folder if they came from the phone. So simply making a 1632x1224 size image from scratch does not work. 
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Aldrew
Joined: Sep 07, 2004
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From: Milton Keynes, UK
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On 2005-06-27 11:30:48, etaab wrote:
For some reason, the K750i will only recognise pictures in the camera pictures folder if they came from the phone. So simply making a 1632x1224 size image from scratch does not work.
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Not ture, I copied a picture of Bedford town map from there web site, sent it to my phone and it worked fine. Zooming in and out finding where I wanted to go. |
etaab
Joined: Jan 23, 2004
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From: UK - South Yorkshire
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It does not work on mine.
I thought it did, but i think they must have changed the option in the current firmware because i could have sworn you could zoom in on normal pictures before i updated. What FW are you running ?
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Aldrew
Joined: Sep 07, 2004
Posts: 283
From: Milton Keynes, UK
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I'm using R1A044, just one more reason not to upgrade.
Why would SE take this option away? Seems odd. I can zoom in on any picture. |
etaab
Joined: Jan 23, 2004
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From: UK - South Yorkshire
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Well im on up to date firmware, and i no longer can.
Maybe they thought it was unecessary, since people only tend to want to zoom on photos rather than a simple wallpaper file ?
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davidish
Joined: Jun 13, 2005
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Well, zooming works for me when I view the image and flip it to Horizontal mode. But I can't zoom in portrait. Has anybody tried this? I might just be lucky and have the old firmware of course.
Now, IMPORTANT QUESTION: Has anybody pasted together the entire London A-Z map into one TIFF or JPG file? If so, will you share? I know I'm just being lazy here, but if someone's already done it, it would be a great 'public service' to share, no?
It would still be better if you could also search the map as you can on Symbian 60 city map apps, but just having the map in phone would be the next best thing.
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etaab
Joined: Jan 23, 2004
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From: UK - South Yorkshire
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You cannot zoom in portrait mode on any firmware version AFAIK.
If you want a map, make one, it literally takes about 15 minutes to do.
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gr3gg0
Joined: Jun 03, 2005
Posts: 182
From: Toronto, Canada
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if it helps, google maps ..er...i duno how 2 explain this, but if u take a save the image, then hit sideways twice, and u save the next one..they match up perfectly...so..just use google maps and make a big map |
etaab
Joined: Jan 23, 2004
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From: UK - South Yorkshire
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Its probably not a good idea to recommend Googles maps - they are copyright.
Besides, IMO Googles maps are rather basic. They tend to only show roads, highways and place names.
Other map sites show more, such as places of interest, landmarks, contours, height and local vegetation.
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numb
Joined: Feb 07, 2005
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#etaab
I have R1J002, and several train routeplans as images in a normal folder I created on the memorystick, and I can zoom on them and any other picture from any folder when in landscapemode. Doesnt need to be in the camerapictures folder.
Am I misunderstanding you ??
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etaab
Joined: Jan 23, 2004
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From: UK - South Yorkshire
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No you're certainly not.
I am in fact a complete blithering idiot. I've just checked my phone right now and i am able to zoom in on pictures.. 
I must have been looking at animated gif images only or something (i recently moved all pictures into folders: wallpapers, contact pics, others, except for animated pictures which i've left remaining in the standard folder).
d'oh ! 
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numb
Joined: Feb 07, 2005
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aha
lol - that explains it |
etaab
Joined: Jan 23, 2004
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From: UK - South Yorkshire
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To simply clarify then, you cannot zoom on animated pictures.
So people, do not make your maps animated with little trains n'stuff.
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numb
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Nice one etaab |
gr3gg0
Joined: Jun 03, 2005
Posts: 182
From: Toronto, Canada
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didn't no google maps was copyright... does anyone have a good online map thing that isn't... |
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Posted: 2005-06-27 11:30
