hey guys
i'm traveling to a location for 2-3 days and the roaming & data access charges are exorbitant. I already have created a my maps in google maps showing all my favorite restaurants. Can i somehow display this in google maps along with GPS?
I'm guessing gps would be free and if i turn off my cellular service, i won't be able to get google maps to show. However, is there a way to download the maps for a particular area and cache it? Any other application i could download and overlay my restaurants on it?
Thanks
I believe there is an app that lets you do that.
Here is the link:
http://www.cyrket.com/package/com.nevilon2.bigplanet
Thanks for your quick response. It doesn't seem to allow Hey loading up my customized maps which i have saved in My maps on google onto this app
Thanks
Hmmmmmmmm.....
This gets me thinking. Though it would take a longggggg time... If someone were to cache an entire area on their computer, would it not be possible to copy that cache to the SD card? Then you could use the Map cache?
Perhaps that sounds pretty vague, but how hard would it really be? The map cache is already able to be moved onto the SD?
momentarylapseofreason said:
Hmmmmmmmm.....
This gets me thinking. Though it would take a longggggg time... If someone were to cache an entire area on their computer, would it not be possible to copy that cache to the SD card? Then you could use the Map cache?
Perhaps that sounds pretty vague, but how hard would it really be? The map cache is already able to be moved onto the SD?
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All ready tried that. Had to write my own app to use the maps and i could only locate myself on the map. No Routes, no meta data.
Adding those tiles to gmaps cache is what is tough.
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I'm new to Windows based phones and was wondering if its possible to download Google maps and save them in the google map cache for offline viewing. Also could some one guide me to where the cache is located. I apologise if this has been covered before.
Thank you,
Akshay
It's not possible with Google Maps but with a similar application that uses maps from google.
Take a look here:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=351001
Thank you mate, I used to use that with my ROKR E6, but its a pain to use it with my Kaiser . Thank anyway.
aksd said:
I'm new to Windows based phones and was wondering if its possible to download Google maps and save them in the google map cache for offline viewing. Also could some one guide me to where the cache is located. I apologise if this has been covered before.
Thank you,
Akshay
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\My Device\Application Data\GoogleMaps\cache-GLM
rename cache-GLM to cache-GLM1 (or whatever)
You can then rename it (or any number of other cache files) back to cache-GLM
And view them off-line.
Thanks mate . Is it the cache-GLM.dat file?
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Thanks mate . Is it the cache-GLM.dat file?
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That's the one...cache away!
Any idea on how to move it to Storage card?
Regards,
Carty..
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Any idea on how to move it to Storage card?
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Looking for the same thing Carty..
me three!
I wonder what happens if it's intalled to the card. Seems to me it wouldn't matter. I imagine it's a dll that steers it, but I haven't checked my registry yet. I will early next week if no one knows (and posts), any more than I (do). 4mb is more than I can lose comfortably to a data cache.
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I wonder what happens if it's intalled to the card. Seems to me it wouldn't matter. I imagine it's a dll that steers it, but I haven't checked my registry yet. I will early next week if no one knows (and posts), any more than I (do). 4mb is more than I can lose comfortably to a data cache.
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You can install GMM to the card, but it still keeps the cache on the phone. It's a HUGE PAIN IN THE NECK.
Lately I've been having trouble sending MMS messages because my phone is full. It took a while, but I finaly figured out that cache-GLM.dat was the storage hog. It was using 24MB!!!!eleven!
I deleted the file and fired up GMM. It recreated the file at 512KB. It's easy to imagine this cache file filling my phone up very quickly if it's going to increase by half a MB every time it loads a new tile.
Somebody please figure out a way to either clear this cache upon exit of the app or move it to the storage card. It sux!
Google Maps CACHE MOVING TUTORIAL!!!
i wana know too
Try here, it's a mapping program for your WM device/PC and can download maps from Google or Bing Maps.
FYI ...
There is a cab on google's website. The files inside are dated 2/4/10. It's Version 4.0.0 (#81).
I installed to storage and it put the cache in storage as well.
Bob
Janis said:
I wonder what happens if it's intalled to the card. Seems to me it wouldn't matter. I imagine it's a dll that steers it, but I haven't checked my registry yet. I will early next week if no one knows (and posts), any more than I (do). 4mb is more than I can lose comfortably to a data cache.
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If you install it on the STORAGE CARD..the cache files are also stored on the STORAGE CARD..
no issues then..go on, and install the application on the card itself..
Is there a way to cache the map tiles offline? Mymaps is a nice app but when roaming its just too expensive to to walk around pulling data over roaming gprs/edge/3G. I'd like to be able to cache a large amount of tiles, disable data and move about.
Is there a way to enable a different shell with command recall like bash?
majatt said:
Is there a way to enable a different shell with command recall like bash?
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If you have busybox installed its shell has recall and tab-completion. Just type busybox sh. No idea if you can make that the default (in theory just symlinking sh to busybox will work, but I'm not sure if anything on the phone depends on any androidisms in their default shell).
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I can use it just fine now, the help is greatly appreciated .
Can anyone tell me about forcing the caching of mymaps?
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Is there a way to cache the map tiles offline? Mymaps is a nice app but when roaming its just too expensive to to walk around pulling data over roaming gprs/edge/3G. I'd like to be able to cache a large amount of tiles, disable data and move about.
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There has been some discussion on it on the G1 hacker list : http://www.telesphoreo.org/pipermail/g1-hackers/2009-January/000568.html
It mainly involves moving cache for maps and making it read-only. I don't think new maps could be cached afterwards. The best would be to prevent deletion, not writing, but I didn't played with it myself so I can't tell what's possible or not.
The best way would be an approach similar to "mobile gmaps", that is an application using predownloaded maps tiles. However I think this is explicitely forbidden by google maps policy (accessing google maps web data from a third party app).
actually there is an app named "big planet" in the android market, you specify 100 Miles, and it will cache 100 miles from either google maps or other map providers to sdcard for offline use. I have been using the free version and its great, but i cant buy it because im from spain and i can not see paid apps.
I don't have a data connection, yet I have a GPS-capable device and thus to use mapping software on the fly I need to preload maps beforehand. There are a number of solutions out there that I've tried (MGMaps, Google Navigator, GPS Tuner, etc.), but they all have very limited functionality.
I've found that Google Maps itself is the best piece of GPS mapping software. It stores map data on internal storage in \application data\googlemaps\cache-GLM.dat. I've seen reports that this file has a size cap imposed by the application, but I have yet to notice this--my current cache file's size is 24MB, and it just seems to get bigger as I explore more area (on wifi).
So my question is, can this file be hacked, so that one could in principle preload arbitrary map areas into it? Is it some common format of which I am unaware? Can anyone analyze the file and figure out if there's some way to manipulate it? I tried opening it in like winrar obviously but no success. If this could be figured out it could provide a lot of utility to a lot of people I think, eliminating the need for all the inelegant third-party Google Maps interfacers like MGMaps.
I attached a small example of the cache-GLM.dat file. (It's an overhead of my office. Guess my occupation.)
Thanks!
Did you have any luck with this??? I'm trying to find a solution to this problem myself, but no luck thus far. Keep me posted. Thanks
Hey everyone.
So I'm going to full wipe the phone for some re-flashing but after countless hours spent on Gun Bros I so don't want to lose that save
I've been searching some myself but have yet to find any save game location on the internal or external memory.
Does anyone know if there is any way to backup your save game before a full wipe as you can't sync it with facebook on android?
So it kinda looks like I found the answer for my myself
Everything is stored in
data/data/com.glu.andriod.gunbro-free/
on my Droid bionic, I am looking for a /data/data/com.glu ....
and I do not have one. there is only one folder in /data/data
and its not the gunbro game.
Where/how can I find the save data. I also want to do a factory default
reset, but I dont want to loose my data.
thanks for the help.
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Hey everyone.
So I'm going to full wipe the phone for some re-flashing but after countless hours spent on Gun Bros I so don't want to lose that save
I've been searching some myself but have yet to find any save game location on the internal or external memory.
Does anyone know if there is any way to backup your save game before a full wipe as you can't sync it with facebook on android?
So it kinda looks like I found the answer for my myself
Everything is stored in
data/data/com.glu.andriod.gunbro-free/
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I searched and this was not posted yet. I needed to save offline maps between ROM flashes or for quick transfer to other phones. What I did on a Galaxy Nexus with Google Maps 6.14.3 installed from Play Store:
Backup:
1. Download offline maps.
2. Backup Google Maps with Titanium Backup. I prefer "Data Only" as I could get the app from Play store or gapps.
3. Create a zip of /sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.apps.maps/cache directory (e.g., googlemapscache.zip) and keep it somewhere safe.
Restore:
1. Install Google Maps
2. Open Google Maps and do menu Settings - Offline and cache - Clear.
3. Restore data from Titanium Backups
4. Unzip googlemapscache.zip to overwrite the contents of /sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.apps.maps/cache directory.
You can start with step 2 if you are only switching to another backup zip.
Verify:
1. Make sure the the zip extract writes to the correct directory. You should have /sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.apps.map/cache/cache_bd.0, etc, and not
/sdcard/Android/data/com.google.android.apps.map/something-else/cache/cache_bd.0
2. Open Google Maps and menu "Show offline list" should list the offline maps.
Using the backup(s), you could have more than 6 offline map tiles: for example, you would backup home area offline maps, then before going to your vacation, clear the Google Maps cache and download the vacation area offline maps. Later back home after your vacation, you can simply clear Google Maps cache, restore Titanium Backup data, and restore the zip file. This is also useful if you travel frequently between two areas. Titanium Backup can do multiple backups.
EDIT: I used Root Browser from ROM Toolbox Pro to create the zip. It's a valuable tool and highly recommended. It comes separately as Root Browser Lite. There are other apps who can do this, such as ES File Explorer and AndroXplorer.
Titanium Backup saves the database and files from /data/data/com/google.android.apps.maps. There are binary files here that reference the offline maps, e,g., /data/data/com/google.android.apps.maps/files/DATA_offlineAreaManagerStorage, OfflineMapArea_1, etc.
It's interesting that the sdcard cache directory size is smaller than the total of what Google Maps tells you as the size of each offline tile. There may be some compression in play, or it could be that after the downloaded raw data is processed it becomes a smaller cache - who knows.
This solution to save maps seems to be working, but have you ever tried the navigation without connection ?
The navigation seems not working for me without data connection !
Google Maps Not Working
david76170 said:
This solution to save maps seems to be working, but have you ever tried the navigation without connection ?
The navigation seems not working for me without data connection !
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I got same problem, can't acces google maps after the 6.14.3 update. It says i got no data connection.
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This solution to save maps seems to be working, but have you ever tried the navigation without connection ?
The navigation seems not working for me without data connection !
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Karonball said:
I got same problem, can't acces google maps after the 6.14.3 update. It says i got no data connection.
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It has nothing to do with the update. Search and navigation never worked without data connection. POIs and street addresses are not part of offline maps.
Although, on 6.14.3, I found that I needed to be connected to the internet the first time I open google maps after restoring saved maps.
Otherwise, all the offline maps would come up with an error saying the map needs to be downloaded again, even though map tiles are still in the cache.
Being connected to the internet doesn't actually download offline maps again, but somehow it just makes already saved maps available.
After that, you can use saved offline maps without data connection.
Could be just me. In case someone has the same problem.
Here it is the solution to the Google Maps data connection issue...
Enjoy:
http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2231277
lost_ said:
google cache
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For new gmaps the location is:
root/data/data/com.google.android.apps.maps
Would be nice to have special tool/app just to make an easy huge cache and easy backup/restore option.
And then I will now longer bother myself to pre-load maps before next trip, since cellular data plan ridiculously expensive even it's already 2016 !
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