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Max,
I seem to get along fine with RoutePlanner & CityMaps. If I want to know where Ilfracombe or Bude is I search in RoutePlanner. Then I switch to CityMaps. I've installed all the UK maps for Citymaps easily on a 256MB card.
Of course if you havn't got both Citymaps & Routeplanner this isn't an option, but the two are more than the sum of their parts.
Keith, Makeover takes input files and turns them into overlays, by definition the output is an overlay. Therefore if you have a a document of the correct spec as per the help files in Makeover (ctrl+l) You then select that file in Makeover and hit enter, you then set the output file name and away you go.
Originally posted by hespj
Max,
I seem to get along fine with RoutePlanner & CityMaps. If I want to know where Ilfracombe or Bude is I search in RoutePlanner. Then I switch to CityMaps. I've installed all the UK maps for Citymaps easily on a 256MB card.
Of course if you havn't got both Citymaps & Routeplanner this isn't an option, but the two are more than the sum of their parts.
John
John,
The reason why I was asking about Bude, etc was that I couldn't find them listed on the CityMaps installer and didn't know what to select to install that area of the UK. I ended up looking in the folder that contains the list of areas are comparing it to my Psion.
I have both CityMaps and RoutePlanner installed on my MalayBook. They seem to work nicely together. Although CityMaps does seem to get confused about where it is sometimes.
It's a shame that some of the data for the maps is now out of date. Pity it can't be modified somehow. While we're wishing - I'd also like a netbook with a transflective screen (there are some really nice mini touchscreen panels around now). Mind you, wouldn't we all. I wonder what resolutions EPOC supports? Also who owns the various flavours of EPOC? What resolutions do the Symbian versions support?
While requesting a copy of an update to TomTom's Collins English/French dictionary (the 1.5 update supporting colour), I did ask them if other sites could host the file considering that TomTom no longer supported their Psion software and I received the following reply:
"Citymaps, Route Planner, and dictionaries are now discontinued product lines and will not be updated and we will no longer support EPOC version 5. We have no issues if anyone wishes to host this particular file only so long as it is not reverse engineered or tampered with in any way."
The file I received (bigf15.sis) appears to be their Update and Replace utility (which also checked the Spectrum Emulator I had installed) so it may include updates to other TomTom applications. However it does appear to be a good candidate for Pscience5's Lost and Found page. I have emailed Martin about this - but if anyone else would like a copy of this file in the meantime, please PM me with your email address.
Which email address did you email me on - don't seem to have received it yet? Anyway, yes, I'd be happy to host this update - although I suspect that - whilst it checks other programs - it only contains the update for 'Bigcolf' as the app. calls itself when installed.
Of more interest is the possibility that they might let us host some of the other stuff: the various dictionaries, games, travel stuff, etc. Although hosting all of Route and/or CityMaps on my server is out of the question unless I start taking donations for the extra Gb I'd need!
I'll respond to your email offline as soon as it (hopefully) comes and hopefully we can follow some of this up...
I've finally solved my problems and have completed creating overlays for RoutePlanner Europe to show , for Austria, Benelux, France, Germany, Italy, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Spain, Portugal, and Switzerland, the locations of all the European "master" CityMaps.
Martin Guthrie has kindly offered to host the files. I'm in the process of send the files to him for his web site. It will take a few days because I don't want to overload his mail box. He'll post a notice of availability when he has them ready.
I must say there are a kazillion cities listed in the Excel/Sheet files. I had to convert my Excel 2003 files to Excel v5 in order to get the converter to work. So you'll see a 5 at the end of each file name. You can always convert to whichever Excel version you have if you don't want to use the Sheet files. There are quite a few files because I had to break down the city alphabetical listings - the
converter didn't want to convert more than about 5,000 at a time.
Note: Where a country has multiple files, the .mbm and .ovr files are in the first zipped group.
If anyone has any questions about the files, I'd be happy to try and answer.
I have completed the production of overlays for the following RoutePlanner countries: Austria; Benelux; France; Germany; Italy; Scandanavia-Denmark; Spain-Portugal; and Switzerland. They have been sent to Martin Guthrie and he has put them on his site: http://www.pscience5.net/
In each package you'll find the overlay files showing where all the "master" CityMaps maps are located - those maps whose .sis files can be extracted from the TomTom CityMaps CD. There are also Excel and Sheet files giving an alphabetic listing of all cities available and which "master" CityMaps .sis file will show that city.
David Steer's files for the UK were put on Martin's site previously.
Having been forced off the bicycle this past week (crash - 2 broken ribs), I've had time to extract every .sis file, country-by-country, from the CityMaps-Europe CDs.
It's a total of some 960MB, zipping them only reduces by 1%, so it would require 2 CDs. These files, along with the overlays I did for RoutePlanner-Europe, make it easy to know and get the files to install for a projected trip.
Now that it's done, I'm not sure just what to do with them - whether they can be made available to others or not. I'm open to any ideas.
Originally posted by ohsix
Now that it's done, I'm not sure just what to do with them - whether they can be made available to others or not. I'm open to any ideas.
The only reasonably legal way I can think of would be to distribute "patch files" that would need the files from the original CD to recreate the SIS files. Somewhat like I do with MBM versions of official maps for TubeRoute.
However, I suspect that could become tedious, with the number of files involved. It might be possible to automate the process though, depending on what kind of patch files were chosen.
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Chris Handley
Storage on a public web site is extremely problematic and probably not a good idea.
Here's what I'm willing to do if you want the 2 CDs for Europe. I've checked into mailing costs, packaging, and PayPal fees I'd have to pay. For Europe my best estimate is $6.00 - cheaper for the US.
If you're interested, send me your mailing address.
I've given this response to the few who have sent me personal e-mails about the files.
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