Does not work in Ubuntu 8.04 about gmapcatcher HOT 14 CLOSED

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I think this is problem of your network.

Use your web browser, access 'http://maps.google.com/maps', is that page OK?

Read the source code of that page, could you see something like
'http://mt0.google.com/mt?v\x3dw2.83\x26hl\x3den\x26' there?

If you want to download map tiles dynamically, make sure you can access google 
map in
your web browser directly (with no proxy setting).


If you believe your network is OK, edit 'googleMaps.py', line 33  (version 
0.03),,
replace the 'None' with '"2.83"'.

My network is fine.. The issue was fixed when the return value was changed.

Thanks for the useful tool. Is there a RSS feed for this project?

There's no plan to add a RSS feed.

If you have to change the return value, there must be something wrong. If 
google map
change their version number, you must fix the value again. In 0.03 version, I 
tried
to query the number from google map's index page. But it doesn't work for you
(definitely it works for me). If you can find the problem, please tell me. 
Thank you!.

very usefull tool, thanks!!

i get this error when i use search:

downloading the following location: 37.979180, 23.716647
+37� 58' 45.05\ at 37.979180, 23.716647
./maps.py:328: PangoWarning: Invalid UTF-8 string passed to 
pango_layout_set_text()
  gtk.main()

And then when i run application again i get this:
 self.show_all()
./maps.py:328: Warning: g_utf8_casefold: assertion `str != NULL' failed
  gtk.main()
Segmentation fault

I'm using ubuntu 8.04


also,Is there any way to implement, long, lat search while offline?

stejogr:

I can't reproduce your problem. Please tell me the problematic position you 
entered
into the search field.

About the search function, see ~/.googlemaps/location. When offline, you can get
hints about the cities you searched before, and gmapcatcher can retrieve the 
long-lat
coordinators. Technically, offline search is implementable with a cities 
database,
however, if you haven't access that city online, you can just get a gray screen
because there's no tiles downloaded. So there's no plan about offline search. 
Thank you!

Thank you, for the replay.

It looks, there's a problem with Greek, locations, try to type for example, 
Athens, 
greece, you'll get the resault, but in the search bar, you'll see something 
like 
this : Ath􏻭nai, Greece,   and after that, if you try to search again, the 
application will crash. And the solution to run gmapcatcher again, is to delete 
location file in ~/.googlemaps.

This happens also, when you try to search using coordinates. for example, if i 
enter 
37.979180, 23.716647, after the search is over, i am getting this in the 
searchbar:
+37􏺰 58' 45.05\. and on the next serach, after the first letter i enter in 
the 
field, gmapcatcher, crashes.
I forgot to say that , the first search is allways successful.
And the error is always the same, like I wrote, in the previous post.

I hope this helps
Thank you

stejogr:
Thank you for your reporting. But I think this should faulty of gtk. I'll try 
to fix
it when I have time. For now, we have a workaround: delete the
~/.googlemap/locations, or just delete the problematic entry. (VIM report 
illegal
byte in my computer, you need save the file by w! command). If you really need 
that
location, you can replace the location field with an English word.

This is not always a problem when you search some place with non-English word. 
I've
tried Chinese character and it works OK. Do you know something about the char 
that
cause problem? I can't even see it in my browser.

The Char causing the problem is the "Degree Sign"

This might be a solution:
http://faq.pygtk.org/index.py?req=edit&file=faq04.010.htp

A nice Introduction to Unicode:
http://www.amk.ca/python/howto/unicode

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. Uncheck the offline box
2. In the query enter 37.979180, 23.716647 
3. Click OK
4. A PangoWarning is shown
5. Try another query

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?
 The application crashes

Please use labels and text to provide additional information.
 location = unicode(location, errors='ignore')