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Help Getting maps installed?

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mattshaw

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Just wondering if there is a way to install maps directly onto the phone/sd card?

Have Google maps & Wisepilot as the preinstalled apps & would like to use either one of them without a wifi or wap connection!

Tried all sorts of searches on here & google but nothing really to answer it :(
 
Originally Posted by MiniDroid
Another tip is to use XGPS, it downloads maps from google maps so you don't need to use the data connection (first to your pc, then transfer it to your phone).

Xpgs is the first hit if you google it.

Anyway, here's the link xGPS
You should be able to figure it out from there (it's easy)



 
colpolite said:
Originally Posted by MiniDroid
Another tip is to use XGPS, it downloads maps from google maps so you don't need to use the data connection (first to your pc, then transfer it to your phone).

Xpgs is the first hit if you google it.

Anyway, here's the link xGPS
You should be able to figure it out from there (it's easy)
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Thanks i downloaded the maps on my computer but i can not incroporate them into my xperia, can you tell me whether it is supported by Gmaps and where to copy the downloaded file *.db in my xperia
 
ahub1988 said:
Thanks i downloaded the maps on my computer but i can not incroporate them into my xperia, can you tell me whether it is supported by Gmaps and where to copy the downloaded file *.db in my xperia
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what i didnt mentioned earlier is that the method is for iphones because xGPS is iphones software it is written by the same user who advised to use xGPS, he got mistakenly mixup in a lot of softwares.
Dont Mind
 
ahub1988 said:
what i didnt mentioned earlier is that the method is for iphones because xGPS is iphones software it is written by the same user who advised to use xGPS, he got mistakenly mixup in a lot of softwares.
Dont Mind
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so is it possible to download maps on the x10 then, if the above method is for the iphone!?!?!
 
osmand with downloading in tangogps (linux app).

installed osmand on phone and tangogps on laptop
set up osmand to use OsmaRender (settings > map > map tile source > OsmaRender)
looked at a map (this downloaded some tiles and saved them to the sdcard)
unmounted sdcard in android mounted SD card under linux (/SDCARD, your's will be different)
opened tangogps
set tangogps to save to the same directory as osmand using OSM (/SDCARD/osmand/tiles/OsmaRender/)
downloaded a lot of maps using the right click +layers feature of tangogps
added a .tile to them with
Code: 
> cd /SDCARD/osmand/tiles/OsmaRender/
> for file in $(ls */*/*.png); do mv $file ${file}.tile ; done
unmounted sdcard and put it back in phone.
used newly downloaded maps.

PS you could use Google maps but I prefer maps that are editable.
 
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