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Nokia Maps and Google Maps

 Google, Technologies  5 Responses »
Sep 142010
 

For over a year now, I am using my Nokia 5800 X-press Music. I am not a big smart-phone user, and this Nokia does most of what I need it to do.

The only application I’d like to see some more compatibility is with the Nokia Maps application. It is quite hard to use the data you store in the maps application anywhere else.

Since Google maps is my map application of choice, I have been looking into a way to move my landmarks, routes and other data to a Google map.

This small How-To will explain how I get data from my Nokia Maps application into Google maps.

You will need the following software:

- Nokia Maps (…)

- Google Maps/Earth

- GPS Babel

 

To Save Locations From Nokia Maps to Google Maps:

  • On your phone, Go into the "Landmarks" app,
  • Select all your landmarks,
  • Select "Send", and email/Bluetooth  them to yourself on your PC – just one ".lmx" file attachment.

Now there are two ways to go ahead:

    1. use a web based translation service to generate a Google KML File from the LMX file. You can give this a shot, but I used both:
      http://www.poieditor.com/poi_convert/lmx-to-kml/
      http://tomtom.gps-data-team.com/poi/poi_edit.php and when importing, Google Earth came up with a “No Data” Error. FAIL.
    2. Use GPS Babel. this is free software, and does a good translation. It allows you to play with many settings. I downloaded a copy and managed to make a working KML file in the first attempt.
  • Once you have opened GPS Babel, use the LMX file as input and write to a KML file. I used these settings:

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This will give you a KML file you can Import with Google Maps/Earth

  • In Google Maps, Go to My Maps
  • Create a new map
  • Select the import Button (screenshot)

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  • Select the KML file you’ve created previously and hit Upload

You now have a Google map with your phone’s landmarks.

This was not so hard, but hard to find! Without GPS Babel almost impossible to do unless someone comes with a good translation script that can do the job online.

 

To save data from Google Maps to your Nokia Maps application

  • Go to Google Maps on your computer and find the place you are looking for.
  • Centre in to the location by double clicking on it.
  • Click on the “Link to this page” link
  • Copy the link from the “Paste link in email or IM” box
  • Go to http://map2nokia.appspot.com/
  • Paste the link into “Google Maps URL” box and type a title and description accordingly.
  • Press the “create .lmx” button to create and download the file.
  • Bluetooth or email the .lmx file to your phone.
  • Open the .lmx file and select options -> show on map.
  • Done! You can save the location so that you can start navigating when you’re ready.

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Lotus Notes Client Troubleshooting – 12 Out Of Office

 Lotes Notes and Domino  No Responses »
Sep 142010
 

This is the 12th part of a series of Lotus Notes Information and troubleshooting Tips

 

The Out Of Office message is an auto responder to any incoming email, advising the sender of the email, that the recipient is currently not in the Office. The agent that sends out the emails also sets the users calendar as busy during these days.

 

Troubleshooting the Out of Office

The most common problem is that the agent does send out any mails while the agent is set to enabled, or the agent has been disabled and the user keeps getting reminders that he should disable it.

The most important troubleshooting step is to check on the server if the agent is enabled, by the correct user, on the correct server, and if the user has the correct access level (should be at least editor). This is how you can check that:

Is the agent enabled?
Check whether or not the agent is enabled. The screenshots below shows how the Out of Office agent appears in the agent list when enabled or disabled:

Out of Office agent enabled
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Out of Office agent disabled
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Questions to consider while troubleshooting

  • Is the Out of Office agent not working for just one person, or for everyone? If it is not working for everyone, it is more likely to be a mail configuration issue.
  • Is the agent signed by an ID other than Notes Template Developers? If it is signed by another ID, this means some operations have been performed to change the agent. Is it a signature that you expected? (Server for Editor level users, mail owner for Designer/Manager users). If not, check the access level of the signer.
  • If the agent is supposed to be running now, is the agent in the agent manager schedule queue?
  • Are there any errors on the server console?
  • If the user has Editor Access, are there requests issued on the user’s behalf in the AdminP task?
  • Is the agent scheduled to run on the right server?
  • Has the user been recently renamed?

Did the user’s ACL recently change? If the user’s access used to be a Designer and then was changed to Editor, the Out of Office agent may be signed by an ID that causes AdminP to fail.


DISCLAIMER: Be aware that these documents are made from information found online, and experience in a large corporation. This means that the situation you will have to apply this to might be quite different.

The idea behind this however, is to make you acquainted with the most common processes and inner workings of the software

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