Okay, there's a function in the old mapsonus parse routine that looks like this:

Code:

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    # create a route as a combination of 'shape' and 'turn' information
    # make sure we discard duplicate records.
    waypoints = []
    for i in range(-1, len(coords)):
	if route.has_key(i):
	    if len(waypoints) and waypoints[-1].coord == coords[i]:
	    	del waypoints[-1]
	    waypoints.append(route[i])
	else:
	    if waypoints[-1].coord != coords[i]:
		waypoints.append(Wpoint(coords[i]))
    return waypoints

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The matching code in the new routine seems to be
Code:

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    h.segments[len(h.coords)-1] = h.destination
    wpoints = []
    for i in range(len(h.coords)):
	wpoints.append(Wpoint(h.coords[i], h.segments.get(i)))
    return wpoints

---

But I don't think a direct replacement will work because objects like "route" don't exist in the new code. Or am I reading that wrong?

In the meantime, I'm working on a really complete "Strip" statement for the top of the script. Working OK so far, I have to throw a bunch of test cases at it next.

The obvious thing to do would be to check on output to see if the line it's getting ready to print is the same as the last line it printed. You need to be careful about the descriptions, though.

I haven't even begun to test this. Not even run it through the interpreter to make sure the syntax is right.

Naw, that one doesn't produce any file as output. Thanks for the stab at it. Perhaps you'll get a chance to run it through the interpreter soon?

By the way, if anyone wants it, I've got a strip command that's working pretty well so far in my test cases. The line is:

discard="((Start|End)\sPoint|follow|Continue onto|Continue on|continue|Continue|bears?|Bear|bear|turn|TURN|Turn |Go |into the |Take the|Take |Merge into|into|to |Set by click|sharply|left at|right at|left|right|straight|onto|as road goes into|as it|Head\s(North|West|East|South)\son)\s?"

And you have to chage the comment mark here so that the strip command gets called:

self.desc = re.sub(discard, "", desc).strip()
#self.desc = desc.strip()

Here is a version that removes duplicates from the route (and which doesn't do datum conversion).

Okay. A couple of syntax errors. Here it is again.

WOOO! SIMULTANEOUSLY!!!

I love you guys, you rock. So much.

Just tried Jan's version. Works great!

Didn't try yours, yet, Bitt, sorry. Grabbed the first one my mouse fell upon, and it works.

YAY, DIRECTIONS FOR GPSAPP WORK AGAIN!

REJOICE!

So, Jan, you can update your script with the modified character-stripping commands I posted earlier in the thread, and put it up at the GPSapp web site. And if you fix up the instructions to describe how to use it with Google instead of Mapsonus, then I'll edit the FAQ to remove the note about how mapsonus stopped working.

Ok, ok, and... ok. Haven't actually updated the tarball or CVS, just included a description and link to the parse_google script on the gpsapp page.

Cool.

Thanks everyone, for all the help.

Now, that's one more year I can go without dropping the cash on a nav system.

I just took an actual drive with some mapping data using this script, and it worked perfectly. The Google map data is very accurate, moreso than I was used to seeing with mapsonus.

Awesome.

Did Google Maps just change the output format of their web page?

I just tried converting a couple sets of directions with Parse_google.py and got errors. Is anyone else besides me using Parse_google.py and do you get the same problem?