I felt a bit bad when you replied on the list. I don't mean to be nasty but I do hope the feedback is helpful to you.<br><br>"Wow the website is horrible, ......"<br>Bit of shock I think. The main thing that put me off was the login barrier that seemed unnessecary, and a lack of description/information of the product.
<br><br>Seriously what does the A mean in osmarender? Perhaps one of the other OSM members can enligten both of us.<br><br><font face="Arial"><font face="Times New Roman">"from the installation folder
(Program Files/BSGPSPDA?) for pretty-ness"<br>You took that out of context. I was saying you copy the "Missing Tile" image for visual reasons when using it, I don't think you actually need to.<br></font>
</font><br>Well done as your first deployed PDA application, I'm not there (yet).<br>I might take it out to get some tracks this afternoon.<br><br>Gregory/LastGrape.<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/6/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">
Bettersoftware</b> <<a href="mailto:barry@bettersoftware.co.uk">barry@bettersoftware.co.uk</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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<div><font face="Arial">Gregory</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Have I done something to upset you? I'm not the most
tactful person I know, so I may have, and if so apologise.</font></div>
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<div>"Wow the website is horrible, ......" <font face="Arial">I'm no expert at web
site design and don't claim to be.</font></div>
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<div>" I would of got it quicker if I had noticed the a in osmarender,
what's the a for anyway?"<font face="Arial"> Osmarender DOES have an "A" in
it according to the Wiki.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial"><font face="Times New Roman">"from the installation folder
(Program Files/BSGPSPDA?) for pretty-ness" </font></font><font face="Arial">
It did not intend to be "petty". this is the first PDA application I have
developed and deployed and deployment was a struggle.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Panning the map was the next planned
development.</font></div>
<div><font face="Arial"></font> </div>
<div><font face="Arial">It' OK with me that you do not like the software. You are
entitled to an opinion, as I am.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">However, other OSMers are using it with good results, so
it's probably does have it's place in the community.</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Best regards</font></div>
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<div><font face="Arial">Barry</font></div>
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<b>From:</b>
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Stuart Cunningham</a> </div>
<div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>Cc:</b> <a title="talk@openstreetmap.org" href="mailto:talk@openstreetmap.org" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
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<div style="font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 10pt; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;"><b>Subject:</b> Re: [OSM-talk] BSGPSPDA
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</span><div><span class="e" id="q_114d9ab9fb600420_2"><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/3/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Stuart
Cunningham</b> <<a href="mailto:stuart.cunningham@dsl.pipex.com" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">stuart.cunningham@dsl.pipex.com</a>>
wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">I've
been collecting tracks on my GPS PDA for a couple of months, and<br>decided
to try an alternative. I've loaded BSGPSPDA, and it works well,<br>but I
can't see how to load the tiles to use in the Map tab. I don't <br>know how
to get the tiles, nor how to load them into BSGPSPDA. Could
an<br>experienced user please give me a
pointer?<br><br>Thanks,<br>Stuart<br><br>_______________________________________________<br>talk
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http://lists.openstreetmap.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/talk</a><br><br><br></blockquote></div><br>When
I got your e-mail I thought I'd try it out as I currently use
BeelineGPS.<br>Wow the website is horrible, I had to create an account to
download it there was no documentation or information at all. <br><br>Yes
saving the tiles to the right place was very difficult and confusing even with
reading the one post on the forum, though I would of got it quicker if I had
noticed the a in osmarender, what's the a for anyway? <br><br>*Find a text
file (probably in My Documents) called BSGPSPDASettings, one of the lines in
that is OSM=<br>*In that folder(or change it) create the following folder
levels: OSM/Osmarender/13 (13 is the default zoom level)
<br>*In the OSM folder copy the 'MissingTile.png' file from the installation
folder (Program Files/BSGPSPDA?) for pretty-ness<br>method 1 for getting
tiles:<br>*use the program somewhere, in your OSM folder see the MissingTiles
text file, it will list the urls of tiles you needed. <br>*download them and
save them in the folder you created, note they must be in the right zoom level
folder and then in the right 5 digit number folder.<br>method 2 for getting
tiles:<br>*install BSGPS on a PC/laptop, no GPS needs to be connected
<br>*click the OSM tab (or view-> OSM) and type in all the details of the
area/zoom you want to download<br>*when you've downloaded them, copy the
folders of tiles to the right place on your pda<br>method 3(not the best) for
getting tiles: <br>*use the online map that isn't a slippy(can't remember the
url right now)<br>*when you see the area you want right click on the
image/tile (i think 9 are shown) and save as.<br><br><br>The GPS signal didn't
get picked up as well as the Beeline program which is odd and annoying.
<br>When I was testing it on the bus it was slightly off the road where it
should be, and I think at one point it must of lost signal but carried on
panning straight when the bus turned.<br>I can't manually pan or zoom the map,
even when I'm stationary. Nor can I view the map(s) when my GPS is off.
<br><br>I havn't tried it for recording tracks yet. One thing I don't like
about Beeline is that adding a waypoint is too long, I would like one button
to save with an auto-increment number, so I don't have to use my stylus and
fiddle everytime I pass a postbox. <br><br>What did you think?<br>I should
probably feed my comments back to the creator on his site, but then would
require registering on his forum too.<br><br>Gregory/LastGrape.<br>
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