Can't download new google maps

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I'm not able to download any new google maps for the past week or two. I
have tried from a couple of different internet connections so I don't think
I am being blocked locally. Is anyone else experiencing this problem? I
have the latest version of GMapCatcher and running eeebuntu. 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by cjre...@gmail.com on 26 Feb 2010 at 8:29

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Could you attach some console output below? Is there any tile GMapCatcher tried 
to
fetch but failed?

I suggest you to try

http://mt1.google.com/vt/lyrs=m@118&hl=en&x=0&y=0&z=1

using your browser. If you get a map tile, your network connection should be 
okay.

Original comment by pi3or...@gmail.com on 26 Feb 2010 at 9:13

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Sorry to hear Doc, but I'm OK I just tested all 3 types (Map, Satellite, 
Terrain) and 
they are downloading fine.

You could also try changing the Map service see if you can get tiles from Yahoo 
and 
OpenStreetMap, in that way we can narrow down your issue.

- If you can not download tiles from any Map service is definitely something in 
your 
PC, firewall maybe?
- If this is a Google only issue and you can get to the URL that pi3orama 
suggested 
then we have a problem.

Hope that helps!

Original comment by heldersepu on 26 Feb 2010 at 12:52

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Hi, thanks for your help. I just tried with Streetmaps with the same result. I 
tested
pi3orama's link above and it worked. I ran GMapCatcher from the command line 
and when
I expected it to download a new map it didn't print anything to the terminal. I 
just
noticed that it crashes each time I try and close it after it failed to 
download. It
has always crashed (sorry I should have said before) if I close the main window 
and a
download window is already open. Perhaps when I have forced it to quit one time 
some
index file was corrupted? because installing the latest version didn't help...

Original comment by cjre...@gmail.com on 26 Feb 2010 at 4:07

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Just noticed this was printed to my terminal when I killed it: 

cjreeve@onyx:~/.googlemaps/GMapCatcher$ maps.py
    download failed - <class 'urllib2.URLError'>
    download failed - <class 'urllib2.URLError'>
    download failed - <class 'urllib2.URLError'>
    download failed - <class 'urllib2.URLError'>
Killed

Original comment by cjre...@gmail.com on 26 Feb 2010 at 4:09

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Ufff, that does not look good, no no, something is wrong and I do not know what 
is 
going on, I will try some testing in Linux, to see if I can replicate.

Original comment by heldersepu on 26 Feb 2010 at 5:14

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I just tried using a backup of my image files and program and it does not fix 
the
problem. I think it must be something that has changed with my system or are 
there
any other configuration files outside of .googlemaps and the software directory 
that
GMapCatcher uses? 

Original comment by cjre...@gmail.com on 27 Feb 2010 at 2:41

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I have never seen this problem before, too.

I suggest you to do some hack on mapServers/googleMaps.py -- 
layer_url_template(), I
suspect this line:

        oa = openanything.fetch(
            'http://maps.google.com/maps?t=' + map_server_query[layer])

Could you add some print statements before and after it and report the output?

Original comment by pi3or...@gmail.com on 27 Feb 2010 at 2:53

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I entered these print statements:

def layer_url_template(layer):
    if layer not in known_layers:
        map_server_query = ["", "h", "p"]
        layers_name = ["m", "s", "t"]
        print "hi 1"
        print oa
        oa = openanything.fetch(
            'http://maps.google.com/maps?t=' + map_server_query[layer])
        print "hi 2"
        print oa

and when I tried to download some maps it printed out the following:

hi 1
    download failed - <type 'exceptions.UnboundLocalError'>
hi 1
    download failed - <type 'exceptions.UnboundLocalError'>
hi 1
    download failed - <type 'exceptions.UnboundLocalError'>

Any use?

Original comment by cjre...@gmail.com on 27 Feb 2010 at 12:18

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Then you need to hack into openanything.py. The code is taken from other place, 
I
don't know much about it, and I have never seen this problem before. 

I suggest you to do following things:

1. add 'import traceback' in tilesRepoFS.py;
2. after the line of 

print '\tdownload failed -', sys.exc_info()[0]

add another line:

traceback.print_tb(sys.exc_info()[2])

and then report the exception traceback here.

Original comment by pi3or...@gmail.com on 28 Feb 2010 at 9:25

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I tried that and found that it was getting stuck when it was checking is there 
was an
internet connection, to which it thought there was none. I eventually found 
that when
I used my laptop behind a proxy three weeks ago I must have set the proxy 
settings
globally but only changed them locally. So although my browsers worked, for some
reason GMapCatcher was still using the proxy settings. 

Sorry for wasting your time, but thanks for your help. I probably would not 
have got
it going without your suggestions of hacking into the code. :)

C

Original comment by cjre...@gmail.com on 2 Mar 2010 at 8:58

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Great! I'm glad you are "back online" I'm setting the status to "Done"

Original comment by heldersepu on 2 Mar 2010 at 1:06

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