(UPDATED March 3rd)HTC Footprints CAB for Diamon! Google Maps/Tomtom

[hamidxa]

Installed on the Touch Pro (Sprint) and I have both the newest Google Maps and TomTom for PPC.

It works great, thanks!

Can't wait for the full-fledged tabbed version of this.

[hamidxa]

A question however though for those of you with TomTom (particularly the latest one with Picture support; i.e. TT7.915)

When I am in the Footprints app itself, and I click on the Arrow (for TomTom) it takes me to TomTom just fine and it shows me the location of my destination from Footprints.

So everything works just fine using that method.

However, when I start from TomTom itself (rather than footprints) and I go to:
Navigate To -> Pictures (once again from TomTom itself) I get the following message from TomTom, "No Pictures found". Is this normal behavior, or is something missing?


In other words:
Footprint can send the picture information (coordinates) to TomTom just fine and TomTom accepts it
However TomTom when launched by itself alone, does not see any pictures when you go to its built in Picture navigation menu item.

[smotrs]

Originally Posted by hamidxa

A question however though for those of you with TomTom (particularly the latest one with Picture support; i.e. TT7.915)

When I am in the Footprints app itself, and I click on the Arrow (for TomTom) it takes me to TomTom just fine and it shows me the location of my destination from Footprints.

So everything works just fine using that method.

However, when I start from TomTom itself (rather than footprints) and I go to:
Navigate To -> Pictures (once again from TomTom itself) I get the following message from TomTom, "No Pictures found". Is this normal behavior, or is something missing?


In other words:
Footprint can send the picture information (coordinates) to TomTom just fine and TomTom accepts it
However TomTom when launched by itself alone, does not see any pictures when you go to its built in Picture navigation menu item.

I have an idea about this but need you to verify since I don't have the software. I suspect there is a menu option within TomTom that allows you to take pictures. If so, those are the pictures that will work within TomTom. The other possibility is that there is a method within TomTom to redirect it's picture location to that of Footprints Picture location and DB where it stores it's information.

Right now, Footprints is capable of sending the coordinates to TomTom or other nav packages as it was setup to do that. But unless TomTom was setup to talk to Footprints, the other way around won't happen.

Hope that makes sense.

[hamidxa]

Originally Posted by smotrs

I have an idea about this but need you to verify since I don't have the software. I suspect there is a menu option within TomTom that allows you to take pictures. If so, those are the pictures that will work within TomTom. The other possibility is that there is a method within TomTom to redirect it's picture location to that of Footprints Picture location and DB where it stores it's information.

Right now, Footprints is capable of sending the coordinates to TomTom or other nav packages as it was setup to do that. But unless TomTom was setup to talk to Footprints, the other way around won't happen.

Hope that makes sense.

Yeah, it makes perfect sense and that's exactly what I was thinking as well.

I guess I was hoping that someone else has already come across this problem before and resolved the issue of where TomTom accesses it's pictures from during the times when its not communicating (i.e. receiving pics) directly with Footprints.

Guess I'll have to poke around and see if I can find out what the default paths are for TomTom's pic directory and see if I can somehow redirect it to obtain the images from Footprints dir.

Also, as for TomTom, it doesn't have a built in camera app, at least not one that Im aware of.

[Ph33zy]

Originally Posted by smotrs

I left the following post to this same question on XDA.

By default, the Footprints App displays the pictures within the TF3D area similarly to when you click the Camera Tab. You would beable to Tap on a picture to make it full screen, etc..

Problem is, the TF3D implementation hasn't been finished.

Thanks for this info... when i click on the thumbnail pics it does take me to the coordinates on google maps...so i guess i have it installed correctly.

[smotrs]

Originally Posted by hamidxa

Yeah, it makes perfect sense and that's exactly what I was thinking as well.

I guess I was hoping that someone else has already come across this problem before and resolved the issue of where TomTom accesses it's pictures from during the times when its not communicating (i.e. receiving pics) directly with Footprints.

Guess I'll have to poke around and see if I can find out what the default paths are for TomTom's pic directory and see if I can somehow redirect it to obtain the images from Footprints dir.

Also, as for TomTom, it doesn't have a built in camera app, at least not one that Im aware of.

Another thing to remember is that Footprints stores it's coordinates within a separate DB file rather then within the pictures header. So even if you are able to direct TomTom to where the Footprint pictures are located, it may not be able to obtain the coordinates because they aren't part of the picture.

Kinda depends on how TomTom (or others) stores the coordinates. My opinion, they should be stored within the header portion of the image so that you can send the picture to someone and they could also have the coordinates of the pictures location.

[Drybonz]

Just got the .9196 version of TomTom. It is so fast compared to previous versions. If you are a TomTom user and haven't got this version yet I recommend it.

[rickyboy]

Anybody get this to install in there internal storage yet.I read a few people say they have ,bit no luck here. Can you please help me out here.

[malenga]

This may be a really dumb question, but are you just supposed to rename and remove .zip (leaving the .cab extension)? I did this and transferred the cab to my phone, but when I go to install it is unsuccessful. Thanks!

[kjw]

Originally Posted by smotrs

Another thing to remember is that Footprints stores it's coordinates within a separate DB file rather then within the pictures header. So even if you are able to direct TomTom to where the Footprint pictures are located, it may not be able to obtain the coordinates because they aren't part of the picture.

Kinda depends on how TomTom (or others) stores the coordinates. My opinion, they should be stored within the header portion of the image so that you can send the picture to someone and they could also have the coordinates of the pictures location.

Have a look at this page at TomTom support: http://uk.support.tomtom.com/cgi-bin...i=&p_topview=1

It seems that TomTom looks for geo-tagged pictures in
\My Documents\My POI\
\Storage Card\My Documents\My POI\

/kjw