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Hi Joseph, thanks for pointing this out. It looks like the label for Vatican City is taking priority and showing instead of Rome. We will look into fixing this. Rome can be found in the Destinations Search, but uses the native Italian spelling of “Roma”. It is on our roadmap to replace the current Destinations database with a multi-lingual one which will make searching easier.
Hi Bucky,
This will be included in our next app update, PocketEarth v1.5, which we are hoping to release in the next few weeks.It will include the ability to make Groups/Lists of any content (destinations, listings, pins, route & tracks). You will also be able to drag n drop reorder items in any of the main favorites lists as well as within your groups. We will post our full feature list for v1.5 in the next week.Just want to update this thread because this issue has been open for a while:
PocketEarth achieves its great rendering performance, in part, by using OpenGL, the same graphics technology that enables most video games. Unfortunately for us, this means that we must handle all font/text rendering aspects ourselves as Apple does not provide efficient means for us to draw text in OpenGL. This is a huge amount of work, and developing it has been perhaps the single most time consuming aspect of making our app!We had hoped to deliver Asian font support in our next update, v1.5 to be released in the next few weeks, however, its looking like it won’t make it in until v1.6. But Asian text support is now our most requested enhancement, and it is our highest priority. If it doesn’t make it into v1.5, you can be sure it will be in v1.6. We don’t have a specific timeline for v1.6, but I can tell you it will be released as soon as the Asian text issue is resolved.Please check this forum discussion for further information: http://www.geomagik.com/forum/discussion/5/map-text-localization/p1. We are working on this issue. We are sorry for any inconvenience.
PocketEarth uses community generated open map data from the OpenStreetMap Project (OSM). While it has excellent coverage in many places, its a bit lacking in others. Fortunately, this is a very active project with around half a million people contributing to it, and the maps are constantly improving! If you have local familiarity with a place, I invite you to join the community effort and improve some maps 🙂 See this post for more information.
There is not really any other viable datasources that we are aware of, and we are committed to the efforts of the OSM community!You are right, we are using CloudMade’s “fastest route” driving mode which tends to take major highways over smaller roads. We will include their “shortest route” driving mode in our next update which will make it much easier to plan scenic routes along smaller roads.
Unfortunately they do not offer “avoid tollways” or “avoid traffic” options, so these will have to wait a bit longer until we find a better routing service or create our own.PocketEarth achieves its great rendering performance, in part, by using OpenGL, the same graphics technology that enables most video games. Unfortunately for us, this means that we must handle all font/text rendering aspects ourselves as Apple does not provide efficient means for us to draw text in OpenGL. This is a huge amount of work, and developing it has been perhaps the single most time consuming aspect of making our app!
We had hoped to deliver Asian font support in our next update, v1.5 to be released in the next few weeks, however, its looking like it won’t make it in until v1.6. But Asian text support is now our most requested enhancement, and it is our highest priority. If it doesn’t make it into v1.5, you can be sure it will be in v1.6. We don’t have a specific timeline for v1.6, but I can tell you it will be released as soon as the Asian text issue is resolved.Hi Jarek,
You can already browse and search for places in such a way as you described. Just tap the Search button on the map, and select the Destinations tab. Here you will find more than 100,000 places listed by Continent > Country > Region (Department) > City. Tap the blue map icon in top right to view the currently selected place on the map, and you can star it to download all of the maps or just to have it listed in My Destinations on the Favorites screen for easy access later on.Sorry to hear you are having problems with address search. Could you tell us what address you entered so we can investigate the issue further?
Also, do you know what version of iOS are you using? (example: 4.3, 5.0, or 6.0)Good idea! We’ll be happy to add a Text Size setting in our next update (to be expected in 2-3 weeks).
Thanks for the feedback! For now you can press the power button during recording to turn off the screen and reduce battery usage, and PocketEarth will continue to record. You can also lower the GPS accuracy setting in PocketEarth to reduce battery usage, though this will also reduce the quality of the recording. For one of our coming Updates, we are planning to profile the battery usage of PocketEarth and make specific optimizations and options to allow you to maximize the battery life.
The grey dots on the route path represents the instruction turn points only. You can tap on them to see that driving instruction. To control the route’s path, just drag the route line by pressing anywhere on the route line (can press on the grey turn points also), and an orange control point will appear and can be dragged.
The routing engine itself is a 3rd party online service which we have no control over. We do plan to create our own routing engine which will work offline on the device itself, though it will be some time before this is ready. Even doing this, I am not sure how much better it will be than the current one, as they are based on OSM data, which is lacking much of the needed routing annotations. Fortunately though, this data is constantly improving as the community adds and corrects information.In some cases, you may benefit from using Waypoints with the GPS Track Recording feature for direct line navigation. See our Help Manual for more information about this.Thanks for the feedback! We have already noticed this issue, and will consider your feedback to improve it. I will let you know when we have more information.
Our next update due out in a few weeks will include a setting to prevent screen dimming (during GPS usage , always, never). Currently only GPS Route Navigation mode prevents screen dimming.
You can tap the main Route button on the map and choose the “Current Location” option to start your route. You can tap the Route button again for other useful options for adding destinations to your route.
Thanks, we will consider your suggestion!PocketEarth v1.4 is now available. Please let us know if you continue to have this issue!
PocketEarth v1.4 is now available. This update should fix this and other crashes in our app. Please let us know if you have any more troubles like this.
Okay, thanks for reporting this, it does look funny! These are cases of our coordinate parser not correctly deciphering the coordinates in some Wikipedia articles, thus placing them at longitude 0. I have checked and this seems to be wasting only a few MB of space. We will correct it in our next data update!
Thanks again for bringing this to our attention!PocketEarth will never try to download the same area twice. If you mark Paris and France for download, they will share data for the overlapping area. Un-starring Paris will not delete its maps since it is covered by France as well. On the other hand un-starring France may cause maps of france to be removed, but not those for Paris (assuming Paris is still starred green).
We have a Custom Destination feature planned for one of our coming releases. It will allow you to mark a custom area on the map and name it. The Custom Destination would be listed under Favorites > My Destinations and be downloaded just like normal ones!
button to recenter the map on your current location.