[Notebook] How to setup iphoneofflinemap on your iPhone, cydia requirement.

Smart phone map App may have already improved your life experience if you ever used it. You can check map anytime and anywhere on your smart phone but internet necessary. Offlinemap let you can check map without internet. It's very convenient to you when you are in oversea or can't access the internet. 

iphoneofflinemap is an iphone cydia app that you can put offline map grabbed from Google map using GMDL (Global Map Download Tool)

simple scenario 

preparing necessary tools → backup current iphone cache map → Download target offline map → modify downloaded map → upload to iPhone → setup bookmark → respring

Step1.Getting started. You need to download few tools.

1. GMDL (Global Map Download Tool). In iphoneofflinemap project. issues 59 reported: downloaded map doesn't work with ios4. Someone update a GMDL ip4 v10 hack. You can download hacked version here that you don't need to convert maps by mapconverter anymore.
2. SQLite manager Firefox extension that you can modify downloaded map.
3. iFunbox that you can upload offline maps to your iPhone very easily.
4. install iphoneofflinemap app in cydia

Step2. backup iPhone current cache map.

Attache iPhone to computer and backup "/var/mobile/Library/Caches/Map/MapTiles/MapTiles.sqlitedb"  (this is original iPhone cache map)  by iFunbox.

Step3. Grab target offline map you want to download. 

1. Download maps by GMDL.
2. Convert maps tiles in an SQLite DB. The only one thing you should notice is locale. "en_TW" for example.
   
   
3. In output folder. You can see "com.apple.Maps" and "MapTiles.sqlitedb". done.

Step4. Modify download maps.

1. Open backup cache map earlier (original MapTiles.sqlitedb) by Firefox SQLite manager can check version and locale.
   
   
2. Modify downloaded MapTiles.sqlistedb version and locale same as cache map.

Step5. Upload offline map to your iPhone.

1. put target offline maps MapTiles.sqlitedb to "/var/mobile/Media/Maps/ChiMai". If Media don't have "Maps" folder, create one and put maps on folder you want by iFunbox.

Step6. Setup offline map bookmark.
Without internet access. you still can view map with GPS but search and direction. Therefore, it's better to put some map books in offline map also.

1. you can visit Google Map (my places) and make some placemarks in maps called "Thailand trip" for example.
   
   
2. copy KML address and visit (http://vcenter.iis.sinica.edu.tw/mobile/kml/loadkml_map.html) to convert those placemarks to iPhone plist.
   
   
3. upload Bookmarks.plist to "/var/mobile/Library/Map" (it's better to backup original one)

Step7. respring (it's very important).

1. open iphoneofflinemap (atlas) on iphone and "remove all  caches".
2. type your map and select copy
3. select "Continues". Do NOT select "Map" directly. 
4. respring your iPhone 
5. turn off 3G, WiFi and Data. You can use offline map now.

Result.

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[Notebook] Using jQuery templates in Google AppEngine

jQuery is a powerful javascript library that you can improve web browser experience just add some js codes. jQuery also has a lot of useful plugin you can add. lightbox, autocomplete etc.

jQuery supports Templates plugin now that you can render HTML code very simply. Here has very detail document and tutorial. Today, i will talk about how to use jQuery templates in Google AppEngine. What is the problem using jQuery templates in Google AppEngine web application.? Braces {}.

Templates syntax.
Google AppEngine Django template.

{% for item in objs %}
 {{item}},
{% endfor %}

jQuery Templates

<script id="doclistTmp" type="text/x-jquery-tmpl">
        {{each(i, o) obj}}
        <tr class="{{if i%2== 0}}odd{{else}}even{{/if}}">
            <td> ${title}</td>
            <td>${type}</td>
            <td>${folders}</td>
        </tr>
        {{/each}}
</script>

They both use brases is problem that you will meet it if you want to use jQuery templates via ajax in Google AppEngine. Then, how to setup jQuery templates in Google AppEngine.

Step1.
Register a tag in a py file called "verbatim_templatetag.py" {{if condition}} print something{{/if}}. Tell Django don't change anything within this tag.

"""
jQuery templates use constructs like:

    {{if condition}} print something{{/if}}

This, of course, completely screws up Django templates,
because Django thinks {{ and }} mean something.

Wrap {% verbatim %} and {% endverbatim %} around those
blocks of jQuery templates and this will try its best
to output the contents with no changes.
"""

from django import template

register = template.Library()

class VerbatimNode(template.Node):

    def __init__(self, text):
        self.text = text

    def render(self, context):
        return self.text

@register.tag
def verbatim(parser, token):
    text = []
    while 1:
        token = parser.tokens.pop(0)
        if token.contents == 'endverbatim':
            break
        if token.token_type == template.TOKEN_VAR:
            text.append('{{')
        elif token.token_type == template.TOKEN_BLOCK:
            text.append('{%')
        text.append(token.contents)
        if token.token_type == template.TOKEN_VAR:
            text.append('}}')
        elif token.token_type == template.TOKEN_BLOCK:
            text.append('%}')
    return VerbatimNode(''.join(text))

Step2.
Include custom tag in your py file that you use web template

 template.register_template_library('verbatim_templatetag') 

Step3.
Add you jQuery template to html page.

 {% verbatim %}
        <script id="movieTemplate" type="text/x-jquery-tmpl">
            <tr>
                <td>${posted}</td>
                <td><a href="${link}">${response_count}</a></td>
                <td>{{html content}}</td>
            </tr>
        </script>
 {% endverbatim %} 

Step.4
call jQuery templates.

  $("#movieList").html($("#movieTemplate").tmpl( plurks )); 

Reference

• jQuery Templates
• jQuery Templates (github)

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