Install Garmin Connect Google Maps Greasemonkey Script v0.2.

I have also posted Garmin Connect Google Maps at userscripts.org.

Note: For some reason I had to uninstall the old script before installing the new one–Greasemonkey didn’t seem to recognize the upgrade.

I finally got around to writing a Greasemonkey script to restore the Google Map on the dashboard and activity pages.

Here’s the link to the script:

Install Garmin Connect Google Maps Greasemonkey script.

A run I did in Kathmandu displayed on Google Maps, top, and Bing Maps, bottom.

>>> from PyQt4 import QtCore
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "", line 1, in 
ImportError: dlopen(/Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/PyQt4/QtCore.so, 2): Symbol not found: _sipQtConnect
  Referenced from: /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/PyQt4/QtCore.so
  Expected in: flat namespace
 in /Library/Python/2.6/site-packages/PyQt4/QtCore.so

Some quick searching led me to this post, which implied that hacking PyQt’s configure.py file to force the architecture to be 64-bit would do the trick.
So where it says:

for a in sipcfg.arch.split():
    if a == 'i386':
        qmake_archs.append('x86_64')
    elif a == 'x86_64':
        qmake_archs.append('x86_64')
    elif a == 'ppc':
qmake_archs.append('ppc')

Replace qmake_archs.append('x86') with qmake_archs.append('x86_64').
Now PyQt works again.

The Google Map link is helpful to see where your location is relative to the current NWS weather station.

• Download version 1.18 for the Blackberry Curve or similar.
• Download version 1.19 for Blackberry Storm.

“There was a database cluster failure earlier this morning. System admins are working on the issue now. It should be available shortly.”

Ugh. This has been a crazy week for my little Blackberry weather app. The National Weather Service has decided to change the formatting of their current conditions XML file. The original product description (pdf) displays the temperatures as integers, but as of this morning NWS has started pushing temperatures with an additional digit of precision. This causes the temperature in the application icon to overflow its maximum size of three digits. Some users will see “NWS” instead of the temperature and some will see “err.” To be fair, the schema for the current conditions feed  indicates temperature is a decimal type, but I naively treated all values as string data for the sake of simplicity.

I have a fix that will strip the extra digits off of the temperature for display in the application icon. I plan to release this as a new version tonight.

UPDATE 6/1/2009: There’s a problem with the app icon appearing too small on Blackberry Storms.

Version 1.1 of my free Blackberry weather application includes the following upgrades and enhancements:

• Current conditions are displayed as the application’s rollover icon
• Links to nearest NWS radar and forecast discussions
• Links to NWS alert and warning bulletins
• The application no longer blocks when fetching weather
• Added a user preference for the minimum font size
• The location database is stored more efficiently, resulting in a smaller overall application size

This update is available for over-the-air install here.
A build for the Blackberry Storm is available here.

Over-the-air install is here.