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While showing the programm to a friend I noticed that the name 
(gmapcatcher) was hard to read, he was reading it {GM apcat...}    

Some ideas:
 gMapCatcher
 gMAPcatcher
 GmapCatcher

What new or enhanced feature are you proposing?
 We could save a lot of information in a configuration file, such as:
  - Size of the main windows
  - initial Zoom
  - initial center of the map
  ...

What goal would this enhancement help you achieve?
 Enable Personalized User Experiences,  

What new or enhanced feature are you proposing?
 It will be great it we could move the map using the arrow keys when in 
FullScreen

What goal would this enhancement help you achieve?
 Very useful for those out there who do not like the mouse!!

I guess that the [OK] button should be disabled if Offline is checked 
or 
If Offline is checked and trying to search we could do a "connection test"
if positive take the user automatically Online

What new or enhanced feature are you proposing?

Now it seems that marker only show up at certain zoom level as specified in
the marker configuration file. The marker icon should be smaller too.

What goal would this enhancement help you achieve?

It would be simpler to track markers and to see them all together.

If the download area crosses the 180 meridian, nothing is actually downloaded.

Example:

download.py --latitude=60 --longitude=179 --latrange=2 --lngrange=2
--min-zoom=10

What new or enhanced feature are you proposing?
 It will very nice to have something similar to the Summary in the Issues
where by default it show "Enter one-line summary" all selected (image
attached) and as soon as it gets the focus it blanks out.

What goal would this enhancement help you achieve?
 Provide more description to the final user on what can be entered on the
query entry box

What steps will reproduce the problem?
 1. Install, Run and try to zoom beyond level 16

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
Nothing appears (empty area)

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
0.7

Please provide any additional information below.

The error I get when clicking on 'Download' is 'Can not connect to 
maps.google.com' (which is clearly not the problem while using the 
browser).

The default instalation shows a very "sad" interface, adding a few maps 
can make it a bit friendlier.

What new or enhanced feature are you proposing?
I need HTML version of gmapcatcher as http://code.google.com/p/ogmaps/
But ogmaps is no longer developed with new google maps version. 

What goal would this enhancement help you achieve?

we can use everywhere without python(Cellphone with html,javascript support)

What new or enhanced feature are you proposing?
To have GPS support.


What goal would this enhancement help you achieve?
Be able to track waypoints throught gmapcatcher and a gps device.

What new or enhanced feature are you proposing?
 Create a Mac OS X installer

What goal would this enhancement help you achieve?
 Make it easy to install for Mac users

What steps will reproduce the problem?
 1. Do a search (Houston, TX) is good example
 2. The output will not be centered on the City

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
 The City should be on the center, instead the corner of the tile is on 
the center.

Attached file (goolglemaps.zip) contains a few examples

What steps will reproduce the problem?
 I'm uncertain about the step to replicate this issue.
 After browsing the maps for a few minutes I notice an error.

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
 There should be no errors like this! 

Please use labels and text to provide additional information.
 Log file Attached

Using 0.071 on XP, every time I exit, I see an OK message dialog box titled 
"Errors occurred" and reading "See the logfile 'C:\Program 
Files\GMapCatcher\maps.exe.log' for details."  Looking there, I see many, 
many of the following:

...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "maps.py", line 372, in expose_cb
  File "mapDownloader.pyc", line 140, in query_region_around_point
  File "mapDownloader.pyc", line 126, in query_region
  File "mapDownloader.pyc", line 106, in query_tile
  File "gtkThread.pyc", line 33, in cb
  File "maps.py", line 396, in tile_received
  File "googleMaps.pyc", line 155, in load_pixbuf
  File "tilesreposfs.pyc", line 59, in load_pixbuf
ValueError: image should be a GdkPixbuf or empty
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "maps.py", line 372, in expose_cb
  File "mapDownloader.pyc", line 140, in query_region_around_point
  File "mapDownloader.pyc", line 126, in query_region
  File "mapDownloader.pyc", line 106, in query_tile
  File "gtkThread.pyc", line 33, in cb
  File "maps.py", line 396, in tile_received
  File "googleMaps.pyc", line 155, in load_pixbuf
  File "tilesreposfs.pyc", line 59, in load_pixbuf
ValueError: image should be a GdkPixbuf or empty
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "maps.py", line 372, in expose_cb
  File "mapDownloader.pyc", line 140, in query_region_around_point
  File "mapDownloader.pyc", line 126, in query_region
  File "mapDownloader.pyc", line 106, in query_tile
  File "gtkThread.pyc", line 33, in cb
  File "maps.py", line 396, in tile_received
  File "googleMaps.pyc", line 155, in load_pixbuf
  File "tilesreposfs.pyc", line 59, in load_pixbuf
ValueError: image should be a GdkPixbuf or empty
...

I'm not sure if this is related, but when dragging the map around, I 
sometimes find that the entire screen (or nearly the entire screen) 
abruptly turns gray once I pan to certain places at certain zoom levels, 
even though there are clearly tiles there since if I pan just a tiny bit 
back, the tiles re-appear.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
 1. UnCheck the Offline box
 2. Enter an invalid Query such as (asdfg qwert)
 3. Click OK

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
 some visual response on the interface 

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
 0.041 on Win XP

Please provide any additional information below.
 There seem that we have a lot of interaction in the Command window
 on this case I get:
   downloading the following location: asdfg qwert
   location asdfg qwert not found
   Can't find asdfg qwert in google map
 This case can be complicated with the windows installation, because no
Command window is shown...

Get directions on the map like with google maps. 
Set waypoints.
Drag and drop the route

$ ./maps.py 
Churchgate, Maharashtra, India at 18.932245, 72.826438
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..

And it just continues this way. Whats the issue?

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Just search for Beijing China

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
 Traceback (most recent call last):
   File "C:\gmapcatcher\maps.py", line 129, in confirm_clicked
     l = self.ctx_map.search_location(location)
   File "C:\gmapcatcher\googleMaps.py", line 141, in search_location
     lat, lng = float(m.group(1)), float(m.group(2))
 AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'group'

Please use labels and text to provide additional information.
 it seems that  def search_location is unable to get lat & lng of this location

Add options during install to create shortcuts in:
 - Desktop 
 - Quick Launch Toolbar

What new or enhanced feature are you proposing?
Transit Support

What goal would this enhancement help you achieve?
Knowing.

What new or enhanced feature are you proposing?
 - Improve the appearance of DLWindow, An idea could be add some frames to
group common items (sample.PNG)
 - Add validation on the key-press-event of the Entry boxes, preventing
unwanted chars (letters & symbols)

What goal would this enhancement help you achieve?
 Make the DLWindow a more user-friendly experience

What new or enhanced feature are you proposing?
 Now that we are showing a list of locations in the dropDown menu it will 
be good to keep it sorted

What goal would this enhancement help you achieve?
 In that way it will be easier to locate a location in the list

What new or enhanced feature are you proposing?
 Under Windows the theme is defined in: 
"%PROGRAMFILES%\GMapCatcher\etc\gtk-2.0\gtkrc"

What goal would this enhancement help you achieve?
 End users can have more control on the look and feel of the interface

Add satellite feature, This might be a starting point:
http://khm3.google.com/kh?v=36&hl=en&x=0&y=0&z=0

What new or enhanced feature are you proposing?

I would like to be able to change the folder where the maps are stored
("USERFOLDER/.googlemaps")

What goal would this enhancement help you achieve?

I use the app on a eeePC with SSD (Solid State Drive) and my USERFOLDER is
on a small volume (4GB). I would like to store the maps in another partition.

This way could possible also to create different collections of downloaded
maps and quickly switch between them.

What new or enhanced feature are you proposing?
it would be nice to see the co-ordinates lat, log and atl under the search
bar as you navigate.

What goal would this enhancement help you achieve?
it will gives a user the complete GPS co-ordinates information when he is
navigating through the maps offline.

I'm going to merge my code into trunk. Please review rev. 239 to be sure
that nothing is broken.

Implemented features:
 Map/Satellite/Terrain switch
 Batch download from the map GUI

I know that the download dialog looks somewhat ugly, and it would be great
if somebody fixed it.

Yandex provides a map service (http://maps.yandex.ru) which use the same
tiling as Google and very similar interface. Their coverage in some
regions, especially in ex-USSR, is much better than Google's. It seems to
be relatively easy to add Yandex support to gmapcatcher.

What new or enhanced feature are you proposing?
 Add Double-Click functionality to the map.

What goal would this enhancement help you achieve?
 Get a similar Double-Click behavior to google maps (Double-Click = Zoom in) 

[deleted issue]

 After typing a "City, State" in the entry box it would be nice if it can 
automatically search when hiting "enter"...

 Same for the autocompletion, after selecting one of the sugested 
locations it should automatically display it.

 Attached is my fix...

It seems that we wait until all the tiles are downloaded to show them.

With a screen resolution of 1280 by 1024 pixels and a "regular" internet 
conection it can take >5 seconds for the new location to be displayed.

I guess it will be best to show the tiles as they are downloaded.

Look into the installation for Win2K

What about a nice (user friendly) windows installer that includes all the
requirements

It seems that the version string fetching method is no longer working...
this might be due to some change in the URL

1 - Look into shrinking the installer
2 - Show details in the installation

i'm running it in my macos 10.5
and i just download and run the maps.py and error like these appears
========================
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "./maps.py", line 3, in <module>
    import gobject
ImportError: No module named gobject

========================
what can i do to run it ?
Thanks
Kenny

What new or enhanced feature are you proposing?

I'd like to have the possibility to put markers on the
drawing area and to be able to interact with them. I don't
need this in GUI, but more as an API available in your
main window class. However, given the way drawing is made,
I'm not sure it is easy to draw things on top of the tiles.

What goal would this enhancement help you achieve?

I'm very interested in your project, as a starting point for
a tool I'd like to build for my own usage (to manage pictures
I make during small trips). But to do that, I'd the ability
to put markers on the map.

This is something I could have a look myself (although I have
zero knowledge of python), but I thought a marker API could be
useful for your tool anyway.

Michael.

What new or enhanced feature are you proposing?
 Add a FullScreen option (F11)

What goal would this enhancement help you achieve?
 Most Web browsers have a fullscreen option even some text editor have this
option

Hi,

at first time, sorry by my very bad english.


I need configure configure proxy at my work to use "online" mode.


thanks.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
 1. change the custom map saving directory
 2. press the download button and download an area

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
I would expect it to download to the custom directory, but instead it still
downloads to the default.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?
GMapCatcher-0.070.exe (windows installer) on winxp home edition

Please provide any additional information below.

Curently all the search result are shown with zoom 10, small cities are 
not even shown with this zoom.

the zoom can be taken in the same way as lat & lng:
p = re.compile('center:{lat:([0-9.-]+),lng:([0-9.-]+)}.*zoom:([0-9.-]+)')

What new or enhanced feature are you proposing?
plz put a small plus mark "+" which always points to the center map. 

What goal would this enhancement help you achieve?

What new or enhanced feature are you proposing?
 Use Doxygen comments

What goal would this enhancement help you achieve?
 Have a well organized documentation 

Nice Sample:
 http://logos-simulator.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/doxygen/index.html
reference:
 http://code.google.com/p/support/issues/detail?id=2227

What new or enhanced feature are you proposing?
 We should add tooltips to all Widget

What goal would this enhancement help you achieve?
 Display additional information about the selected widget in a tooltip

 This could be a starting point:
http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2tutorial/sec-TooltipsObject.html
http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2reference/class-gtktooltips.html

add a "center map here" functionality, otherwise you lose your focus easily.

What steps will reproduce the problem?
 1. Search for any location and get a close zoom (<7)
 2. Start moving around the map with your mouse (it can take a while)
 3. After a while it will stop showing the images & crash

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
 It shows (SaveDC failed: Not enough storage is available to process this
command.) Logs files attached 

Please use labels and text to provide additional information.
 I was unable to replicate under Ubuntu Linux, it seem to be Python/Windows
issue

Add "some" Right Click functionality to the map...
somthing like google maps

Always the same problem:
The version number change every month, and no files are downloaded, and the
screen is gray.
In console: you can seen the files downloading, but nothing appears in your
home folder.
How to solve: open the googleMaps.py
find the line:
href = 'http://mt%i.google.com/mt?n=404&v=w2.75&hl=en&x=%i&y=%i&zoom=%i' %
(self.mt_counter,coord[0],
and change version number (v=wx.xx) by a new line like
href = 'http://mt%i.google.com/mt?n=404&v=w2.85&hl=en&x=%i&y=%i&zoom=%i' %
(self.mt_counter,coord[0],