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Sweet. Not a big issue obviously but I figured I’d report it anyway.

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Very nice, managed to get this working. Thanks.

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@GeoMagik

Nice update, I use this feature all the time when Geocaching. I have the app open pins in Pocket Earth for offline navigating so it’s indispensable. BTW, is it possible to specify the pin attributes such as size, style or color in the URL parameters?

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Just tried it again now and routing seems to be working again.

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Noticed this as well. Problems with the Cloudmade routing server perhaps?

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@BuckyE

Try starring a country, let it download and then put your iPad in “Airplane” mode and try zooming in on a map/select various sub-regions and cities. I just tried it with one of the provinces here in Canada and although it’s indicating the cities are “un-starred”, I’m able to zoom in just fine even while offline.

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@GeoMagik

Just tried this on iOS 5 and yea it does crash. Took a look at the logs and it seems similar to the crash reported by @jsgblom with regards to the new route/street address search. Anyway, I replicated it in the beta as well so you should be receiving the logs.

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@GeoMagik

Correct, it was the URLESCAPE syntax that was missing in the Geosphere “bookmark”; a forum member there pointed it out. Like Reck mentioned, it’s working fine now so no need to implement any changes on your side.

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Well after all this time, I learned that iOS 5 has such a feature built in and it’s super easy to access; double-click the home button, swipe left-right once to reveal the iPod controls and there’s a rotation lock icon staring you right in the face. You even get a nice little icon in the top status bar as a reminder it’s active.

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Any idea on the status of this? I’m an OSM contributor and some of the edits I made over a month and a half ago are still not reflected in PE.

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Updated and it appears to be fixed. Great work. Love developers like you guys.

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I’m also experiencing the issue with the record button not appearing consistently. I’m using an iPod Touch 4G with a Magellan Toughcase (SiRFstarIII). I’ve tried the suggestions and it’s still hit or miss. Sometimes, minimizing and then maximizing the app will get the button to appear but it’s pretty rare. Strange since I also use two other apps, MotionX-GPS and Maps 3D, and they both record tracks consistently. Hopefully you guys can look into this.

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Same issue here. iOS 5.1.1 on ipod Touch 4 and iphone 4s

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Thanks Geo, just downloaded it and hope to give it a try tomorrow. Also, thanks for keeping me updated, you guys are great. I may have the occasional “crash” but Pocket Earth is still hands down the best offline mapping app I’ve tried.

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Thanks for the update GeoMagik, looking forward to the new version. Leaving on a trip to Alaska early next week so I hope I can give the new version a workout. I’ve been able to minimize my memory related crashes in v1.5 by simply staying out of the menus and navigating a bit slower allowing time for RAM to be released.

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Hey Again Geo. I’ve been doing quite a bit of Google’ing the past few
days and it appears that having Springboard listed as the largest App at
the time of the crash isn’t out of the ordinary. I found a really great
developer blog at:

http://www.raywenderlich.com/23704/demystifying-ios-application-crash-logs

One particular quote of interest:

“Usually, the largest process and the frontmost app are the same, and
are also the process that has caused the low memory crash. But you may
see some instances where the largest process and the frontmost app are
not the same. For example, if the largest process is SpringBoard,
ignore it, because SpringBoard is the process that shows the apps on
the home screen, the popups that appear when you double tap the home
button, etc. and is always active.

When low memory situations happen, iOS sends a low memory warning to
the active application and terminates background processes. If the
frontmost app still continues to grow in memory, iOS jettisons it.”

Here’s another crash log of mine and this time Pocket Earth was the largest process:

Incident Identifier: 13E593E3-8C42-4AB4-A596-1601929B3E09
CrashReporter Key:   6f09cde708f656233c5afa13b4517927ff0699ba
Hardware Model:      iPod4,1
OS Version:          iPhone OS 5.1.1 (9B206)
Kernel Version:      Darwin Kernel Version 11.0.0: Sun Apr  8 21:51:26 PDT 2012; root:xnu-1878.11.10~1/RELEASE_ARM_S5L8930X
Date:                2013-05-09 14:20:24 -0300
Time since snapshot: 73 ms

Free pages:        439
Active pages:      1665
Inactive pages:    923
Throttled pages:   48480
Purgeable pages:   0
Wired pages:       11992
Largest process:   PocketEarth

Processes
         Name                 UUID                    Count resident pages
     PocketEarth < 08b108a0650f3c12869a2056aa50a168>   13958 (jettisoned) (active)
     SpringBoard < c74dc89dec1c3392b3f7ac891869644a>    8186 (active)
         notifyd < f6a9aa19d33c3962aad3a77571017958>     168
        BTServer < 31e82dfa7ccd364fb8fcc650f6194790>     208
CommCenterClassi < 041d4491826e3c6b911943eddf6aaac9>     293
      aggregated < a12fa71e6997362c83e0c23d8b4eb5b7>     313
            apsd < e7a29f2034083510b5439c0fb5de7ef1>     240
         configd < ee72b01d85c33a24b3548fa40fbe519c>     281
     dataaccessd < 473ff40f3bfd3f71b5e3b4335b2011ee>    1022
   fairplayd.N81 < 32fbd294ec02341e8c89570445ba4b67>     143
       fseventsd < 914b28fa8f8a362fabcc47294380c81c>     184
            iapd < 0a747292a113307abb17216274976be5>     336
         imagent < 9c3a4f75d1303349a53fc6555ea25cd7>     314
       locationd < cf31b0cddd2d3791a2bfcd6033c99045>     518
   mDNSResponder < 86ccd4633a6c3c7caf44f51ce4aca96d>    7354
    mediaremoted < 327f00bfc10b3820b4a74b9666b0c758>     204
    mediaserverd < f03b746f09293fd39a6079c135e7ed00>     567
       lockdownd < b06de06b9f6939d3afc607b968841ab9>     214
          powerd < 133b7397f5603cf8bef209d4172d6c39>     126
           wifid < 3001cd0a61fe357d95f170247e5458f5>     285
  UserEventAgent < dc32e6824fd33bf189b266102751314f>     328
         launchd < 5fec01c378a030a8bd23062689abb07f>     128

**End**

Here’s another example of an App that crashed but listed SpringBoard as the largest process:http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11851271/ios-app-being-killed-jettisoned-by-mediaserverd-memory-issue-leak-while-str

In regards to the Jailbreak, I don’t think it’s related as I booted
into safe mode which essentially disables everything and Pocket Earth
was still “jettisoned”. I also tried turning off “Proximity Caching” as
you suggested and there was no change. The more I play around with it,
I’m inclined to believe it has something to do with going into and out
of the menus or using the UI buttons alone the bottom. If I just browse
around and zoom in and out on the map, it takes much longer to crash; but opening up the menu, it seems to grab a chunk of RAM and rarely does it give it back upon exiting.

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Thanks for replying Geo. My device is an iPod Touch 4g – 32GB model running iOS – 5.1.1 (jailbroken). The app I’m using to display RAM stats is SBSettings which correctly displays “free” and “inactive” memory.

I’ve included a video I recorded to demonstrate the behavior. The iPod was restarted prior to the recording so it was a fresh restart. In regards to the “jailbreak”, the only tweaks I have on are SBSettings which was installed to monitor RAM. I don’t use any other tweaks such as Winterboard and in fact, no custom themes, no interface tweaks; my icons are all stock and even my wallpaper is the stock bubbles one. The only reason for my jailbreak is to gain access to two legit apps: ProTube and StyleTap (PalmOS emulator). Anyway, just to rule out the possibility that the jailbreak could somehow be interfering, I rebooted the device in “safe mode” which essentially runs the device as if it were stock; the app crashed just the same (although obviously I wasn’t able to track the RAM usage that time).

Anyway, here’s the video (location is Vancouver, Canada):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lGDM6qqp6_Y

Here’s the crash log shown in the video. As you can see, there’s next to nothing running:

Incident Identifier: 0E308793-4D1D-4617-84C3-D6C20F66B2E4
CrashReporter Key: 6f09cde708f656233c5afa13b4517927ff0699ba
Hardware Model: iPod4,1
OS Version: iPhone OS 5.1.1 (9B206)
Kernel Version: Darwin Kernel Version 11.0.0: Sun Apr 8 21:51:26 PDT 2012; root:xnu-1878.11.10~1/RELEASE_ARM_S5L8930X
Date: 2013-05-08 18:24:59 -0300
Time since snapshot: 89 ms

Free pages: 695
Active pages: 940
Inactive pages: 1416
Throttled pages: 48317
Purgeable pages: 0
Wired pages: 12270
Largest process: SpringBoard

Processes
Name UUID Count resident pages
PocketEarth < 08b108a0650f3c12869a2056aa50a168> 10163 (jettisoned) (active)
notifyd < f6a9aa19d33c3962aad3a77571017958> 170
BTServer < 31e82dfa7ccd364fb8fcc650f6194790> 225
CommCenterClassi < 041d4491826e3c6b911943eddf6aaac9> 287
SpringBoard < c74dc89dec1c3392b3f7ac891869644a> 11330 (active)
aggregated < a12fa71e6997362c83e0c23d8b4eb5b7> 304
apsd < e7a29f2034083510b5439c0fb5de7ef1> 217
configd < ee72b01d85c33a24b3548fa40fbe519c> 286
dataaccessd < 473ff40f3bfd3f71b5e3b4335b2011ee> 1132
fairplayd.N81 < 32fbd294ec02341e8c89570445ba4b67> 144
fseventsd < 914b28fa8f8a362fabcc47294380c81c> 143
iapd < 0a747292a113307abb17216274976be5> 346
imagent < 9c3a4f75d1303349a53fc6555ea25cd7> 319
locationd < cf31b0cddd2d3791a2bfcd6033c99045> 419
mDNSResponder < 86ccd4633a6c3c7caf44f51ce4aca96d> 7351
mediaremoted < 327f00bfc10b3820b4a74b9666b0c758> 203
mediaserverd < f03b746f09293fd39a6079c135e7ed00> 509
lockdownd < b06de06b9f6939d3afc607b968841ab9> 201
powerd <133b7397f5603cf8bef209d4172d6c39> 130
wifid < 3001cd0a61fe357d95f170247e5458f5> 247
sbsettingsd < e9a2c6b3c8a722b2bae7541bb247b81d> 219
UserEventAgent < dc32e6824fd33bf189b266102751314f> 332
launchd < 5fec01c378a030a8bd23062689abb07f> 122

**End*

It’s all very odd since I don’t think I’ve experienced an app crash in months; even Facebook doesn’t crash for me and it’s notorious for that. I’ve also had NavFree Canada and Topo Maps installed for quite some time and neither of those exhibit any erroneous behavior either.

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