Quoting from a mail John Locke wrote to the Openmoko mailing list:
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"Fantastic work on TangoGPS--it's seen more use than anything else on my
Neo... and today I just tested out the tracking feature, following
Marcus's instructions to upload my map to openstreetmap.org for some
trails in a local park... great fun!
That brings up a question, though--when my contributions reach the map,
how do I refresh the maps I've already downloaded? Is there a setting to
make TangoGPS check to see if there's a newer version of a tile? I'm not
set up for GPRS, and I've got quite a few tiles downloaded to the sd
card I'd rather not lose..."
That was 58 minutes ago and I really did not intend to make a release tonight. I rather intended to go to sleep. But hey, such a great feedback deserves an answer and here it is: Version 0.7.98 - featuring the many times wished for pre-download of areas.
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You can fetch up to six zoom levels deeper the current visible map. Old tiles will be refreshed.
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Other features / improvements:
- friends are now shown with little icons instead of green spot
(see screenshot) - mutlithreading bug in friend function removed
(could sometimes freeze part of the UI) - correct handling of the tilde as part of directory in the config
- several minor things
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Download
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tangogps_0.7.98-r1_armv4t.ipk - Openmoko
tangogps0.7.98 - binary with the usual caveats
tangogps-0.7.98.tar.gz - tarball
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Comments welcome!
It's quite annoying becouse often i have to remove the battery to recover from ui freeze.
Shall be fixed in the next version. Bug does not appear if gpsd is running.
Thanks for reporting it.