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Title: Avant Go for Linux?
Post by: doc on August 03, 2004, 12:14:29 pm

Does anyone know of a port or some sort of software for Linux that will read Avant Go map files?  So you can download maps from http://www.mapquest.com (http://www.mapquest.com) and save them on your pda for zooming and such?

See http://www.avantgo.com/frontdoor/index.html (http://www.avantgo.com/frontdoor/index.html)

They have software for PalmOS and WindowsCE but not Linux.

Title: Avant Go for Linux?
Post by: TimW on August 04, 2004, 06:15:02 am

The best I have managed so far is to use Plucker to convert the page displayed when you select print and then view the output in opie-reader. The actual page isn't very easy to use but so long as you use the "link to full size image" and "Allow image to exceed 60kb" options you can get a reasonable scrollable view by tapping on the thumbnail and bringing up opie-reader's image-viewer.

I don't have AvantGo so I don't know if it provides any extra functionality than just displaying the map - if so I haven't found any way of replicating that.