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gillius · 11-07-05, 12:46 AM

Yeah, I've been using it all day. I wrote a message to the author about the fact that it always starts up in Redmond. I looked at the source code and I was amazed at how little is different between .NET for desktop and .NET for Pocket PC. The license for the source seems to allow me to modify it so that I can make the startup configuration how I like it (ideally configurable in the general case).

I really like how it caches data for viewing offline, but it would be cool if there was a way to download a cache of a city or area automatically rather than just scrolling around. I got a map of my city (Rochester, NY) in two zoom levels in 2MB of cache (I've allocated 10) and a detailed zoom of the very confusing downtown area, which should be sufficient for ad-hoc direction finding of the main streets.

I suppose since I know the cache structure and the code I could make such a program that would run perhaps even on the desktop to allow explicit map caching. Programmability was one of the main reasons why I was so excited on PDA vs iPod, and I see now that I was right!

I'm glad the x51v has 256MB of built-in storage! I've yet to fill it up yet. But my 6GB microdrive in the mail yet still will be easy to fill up with music, pics and video ;).

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gillius Aximsite Minor League Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Rochester, NY Posts: 247 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Yeah, I've been using it all day. I wrote a message to the author about the fact that it always starts up in Redmond. I looked at the source code and I was amazed at how little is different between .NET for desktop and .NET for Pocket PC. The license for the source seems to allow me to modify it so that I can make the startup configuration how I like it (ideally configurable in the general case). I really like how it caches data for viewing offline, but it would be cool if there was a way to download a cache of a city or area automatically rather than just scrolling around. I got a map of my city (Rochester, NY) in two zoom levels in 2MB of cache (I've allocated 10) and a detailed zoom of the very confusing downtown area, which should be sufficient for ad-hoc direction finding of the main streets. I suppose since I know the cache structure and the code I could make such a program that would run perhaps even on the desktop to allow explicit map caching. Programmability was one of the main reasons why I was so excited on PDA vs iPod, and I see now that I was right! I'm glad the x51v has 256MB of built-in storage! I've yet to fill it up yet. But my 6GB microdrive in the mail yet still will be easy to fill up with music, pics and video ;). __________________ Gillius Gillius's Programming To view links or images in signatures your post count must be 10 or greater. You currently have 0 posts.