[maemo-users] Bug in Maps application

[From: James Sparenberg]

On Tuesday 27 November 2007 02:31:20 pm Frédéric Crozat wrote:
> Le mardi 27 novembre 2007 à 22:46 +0100, Frédéric Crozat a écrit :
> > Hi,
> >
> > according to Wayfinder website
> > http://www.wayfinder.com/?id=5365&lang=en-US Nokia is supposed to
> > support "Maps" application shipped with IT2008.
> >
> > Unfortunately, there is no such component in Maemo bugzilla ATM.
> >
> > Until this is fixed, here is a nice bug report for Maps
> > application : -this application saves its maps data downloaded to
> > the internal memory card (I'm speaking about n800) but it does
> > check if there is enough free space on it while downloading,
> > which cause the download progress bar to get stuck at one value
> > and never go beyond (and of course, there is no "no space
> > available" warning.
> > -you can't change the default memory card used by this
> > application. This is problematic : for instance, I have a 128MB
> > internal memory card and a 2GB external memory card and I can't
> > download France maps (300MB), unless I use symlinks from one card
> > to another.
>
> Correction, since I did more tests :
> - you can't use symlinks from one card to another

You can.. IF you change the file system on the cards (and adjust fstab 
accordingly) to something other than dos.

> - fortunately, you can move the "map" directory from the internal
> card to the external card and Maps application will use external
> card by default.
>
> Unfortunately, even with this change, there seems to be a problem
> on the server side which is unable to sent the entire data (or
> something like that).