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GPS Map in K850i without GPS device. |
erichkooi
Joined: Nov 21, 2007
Posts: 65
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Hi,
This is not something new but it had been a while in many other devices such as psp, windows mobile and so on.
My question is possible to use this GPS in K850i without connecting to internet and we still able to point the saved location maps in phone memory or memory card?
I am sure many of us have phone without gps and would like to have this in our old lousy phone.
I know some of these softwares are available for free.
http://www.mgmaps.com/
http://www.google.com/gmm/
Is anyone had tried above software in K850i without gps device and offline?
If yes, could you teach us how to do it?
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Kikos
Joined: Aug 17, 2006
Posts: 162
From: Armenia
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mgmaps can work both with online and offline maps
there is another application that works with offline maps - see trekbuddy.net |
Kikos
Joined: Aug 17, 2006
Posts: 162
From: Armenia
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I've almost forgotten. There's also a Garmin IMG viewer - http://www.getjar.com/products/15383/MarioAdvisor.
works on k750!
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strizlow800
Joined: Aug 23, 2006
Posts: > 500
From: Macedonia, Skopje
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Nice app there. Tnx for the link from me too. 
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Kikos
Joined: Aug 17, 2006
Posts: 162
From: Armenia
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Have you tried Mario (img viewer) on P1? How's the performance? Some zoom levels it loads very slowly on k750, I wonder is it the same on newer phones?
Anyway it's a new app, and it seems to me after few updates/versions it'll be faster.
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catalinux
Joined: Oct 17, 2006
Posts: 108
From: Romania
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I managed to get offline maps to work with MGMaps on my K850i. The maps I used are of my home town (Bucharest, Romania) and contain the entire city area (around 25 square km). First I got the "Microsoft Live Aerial with Road Maps Overlayed", which is THE BEST thing possible, because you get to see the street names AND the view from above which is perfect for orientation (even though the aerial or satellite photos for my city are several years old). The bad news is that even though the application worked very well on the phone, the folder containing all the offline files was 351 MB in size and had over 15,000 files (!!!) which caused my phone to boot in 2+ minutes, an overall feeling of sluggishness and troubles when deleting a picture or videoclip or mp3 file (the phone needs to update it's index file and this took another 9-10 minutes because of the tremendous number of files on the memory card. This also caused the battery to drain faster than ever).
Seeing this, I decided to try another map - "Microsoft Live Road Maps". The result is much smaller, because I chose a smaller area, fewer zoom levels and the map only contains the streets, without the satellite imagery. It's 23.5 MB in size and has 6100 files. The phone boots in less than 1 minute and works fine. The update of the media content still takes a lot (4-5 minutes) which will probably affect battery life.
What did I use?
1. MGMaps v1.41.03, free to download from www.mgmaps.com
2. Shustrik's .map Creation Tool for MGMaps, online tool from www.mapcacher.com (this is where you establish the map area, type, zoom levels, detail level). The result is a file which you must save and use in step 3.
3. gMapMaker v0.7.1.6 from www.mgmaps.com/cache/gMapMaker-setup.exe which is the tool that downloads the map tiles based on kind of a script file - the one you just downloaded.
When you are done with the download in gMapMaker, open the folder where you installed it and copy the "MGMapsCache" folder to your phone's memory card (this may take a while because of the large number of small files). Open MGmaps application, set it up to use offline mode and point it to the "MGMapsCache" folder. Also make sure it uses the same map type that you chose to download in step 2.
That's it. I told you about my personal experience first so that you'll know that the bigger the area and details, the more stress you'll put on your phone. It might work, but it'll give you a hard time. Enjoy.
K850i was the SE's most superb phone. And failure.
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Kikos
Joined: Aug 17, 2006
Posts: 162
From: Armenia
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catalinux
I'm not a heavy user of MGMaps, so I don't know if there exists such a feature, but TrekBuddy has a great feature that gives a workaround of your problem.
First Trekbuddy also has an option for offline maps with thousands of tiles with the SLOW indexing problem you've described. But what it also provides is TARed maps - you can compress with tar thousands of tiles into one single file (a map). And you'll have no slow startup, file delete problem.
This option is GREAT |
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Posted: 2008-08-28 11:20
Sony Ericsson software/hardware support! 
