[mongrelfish]

Oh that’s really great to hear, Kritou! So offline routing capability is finally coming to Pocket Earth?

[mongrelfish]

Hi BuckyE!

Glad that you are back, and wonderful to hear that you are testing a new beta version. Are you allowed to say what new features are being trialled so we can have an idea of what to look forward to?

Thanks!

Mongrelfish

[mongrelfish]

ok, i disabled wikipedia but this hasn’t solved the issue for me.
for example, i downloaded the usa last night. going offline, i zoomed in on seattle. at 100km and 50km zoom scales, i got a magnified version of 200km zoom scale map. at 20km scale, i got a white screen. from 10km to 20m zoom scales, the maps are there.

[mongrelfish]

looks like i wrote too soon. i downloaded japan and got the same problem as BuckyE described above. Maps missing for some areas at some zoom scales/levels. And not just Japan…. I zoomed in (offline) on Vladivostok after downloading Russia and found a white screen at a medium zoom scale, but the maps were there for the most detailed zoom scale.

Fortunately, Europe (where I am travelling now) maps seem ok now.

[mongrelfish]

finally i have some time and a stable place and internet connection.

and looks like i have resolved the issue:
settings -> delete maps -> delete all maps
and then download each country one by one. seems to be working so far, just will take a while to download the whole world 🙂

sorry for my whinging before – just frustration when i really needed the maps and they weren’t there.

[mongrelfish]

hi guys!

so i’ve decided to uninstall and re-install the app to hopefully solve the problem of maps not downloading and crashing in general.

i tried to follow the advice you gave in the general thread about v 2.0 crashing and how to save ‘favourites’, i.e., i downloaded ifunbox on a friend’s pc and connected my device…. and nothing. no device recognised. am i missing something again? do i need to have itunes downloaded first?

please help, this is all totally frustrating as i need to use this app every day.

thanks!

ok, i’ve been doing some research and it seems that ifunbox is a itunes alternative and for sure i don’t need to download the latter. just have to figure out why my device is not recognised. sorry guys, i didn’t realise i had to go through all this hassle just to have an proper functioning offline map app.

[mongrelfish]

i’ve been zooming and panning as usual to get my detailed maps, and after a while, the app crashes.
frustrating!
hope you geomagik guys can work your magic and make things right again.

[mongrelfish]

hi BuckyE!

as geomagik stated in reply to my post, when you download a country, you shouldn’t need to star/cache any regions or cities within it. it seems that from a certain zoom level to the most detailed zoom level, that map data has not been downloaded due to a bug in the coding.

in my case, zooming and panning offline shows a white screen/ magnified view of zoomed-out view (depending on the zoom level). zooming and panning online activates the downloads for these regions, as seen by the green downloading ‘bar’. at the moment, this is the only way i can get detailed maps for a region. totally inefficient, and like you say, i don’t know if i have zoomed and panned everywhere and there may still be areas missing.

as for the ‘airplane’ mode workaround xomptor, it didn’t work for me.

just have to pray that the guys at geomagik find the bug in the coding which is preventing map data being downloaded when a country is starred/cached/downloaded.

[mongrelfish]

hi!

thanks for the prompt reply.

i’m using an iphone 5s 64gb, ios 7.1

‘my maps’ has the complete list of countries. the missing maps problem is happening with all of them. at the 200km scale, it shows the basic details. zooming in to the 100km and 50km scales only magnifies these details, doesn’t provide any detailed maps. at 20km scale, i get a white screen.

‘my maps’ has all the countries green starred stating saved for offline use.

i’m sorry but no chance to sync my device with a computer, so no crash logs available.

hope this helps to solve the problem.

[mongrelfish]

Hi guys!

Thanks for the prompt reply.

The B4 map error was not an issue on the OSM website when I first consulted it on 28th December. It seems like something else is afoot. I hope you’ll get to the bottom of it.

Thanks for investigating, and thanks for a great app – despite my frustrations at the lack of regular updates, I really appreciate all the work that you’ve done. This app is the reason I bought an iphone.

[mongrelfish]

Hi guys!

Still no reply about the status of the updates problem I see… 

I reported a glaring map error over a month ago (and still no reply) which wasn’t on the OSM website. It’s an obvious error because it shows a road following the course of a river in the middle of Hamburg. The OSM website is correct. Yesterday, I got invited to update all my map data by the app which I duly did, hoping that the error was fixed. Nope, it’s still there. Just how up-to-date are these map updates?

I don’t mind paying for an app which is still a work in progress… but a map app has to have accurate and up-to-date map data! – this is fundamental and should be your number 1 priority.

Thanks for your attention.

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