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Hi Ando,
thanks for this post. I do not have an official "press release" yet, but in general I would recommend to backup July 2012 data before new updates. We may have separate updates - this depends on number of holes. From one side people would like to see their changes and at the same time were not influenced by potential holes ... one possibility is to skip August update ... we will see. What would you like?
thanks
   Martin

Hello,

well... its difficult...

I know that a lot of new contribution will be added every month to osm. Thats great! And I loved the monthly updates by mapfactor
:-)
But I think that a lot of people just want to use a free navigation software. I think, that most of them dont know anything about Openstreetmap (and maybe never really want to know). They just want free (and good) maps!

There a better / other programs or ways to see what "holes" need to be fixed... (JOSM, OSM Inspector). Sure, I also used the navigation software to see whether all the speedlimits on my way home are correct. That was fun! But I think that a lot of "non-nerds" just wants some good maps.

Look here e.g. ! Almost ALL the streets have vanished! It could take months to remap this area...

Well, I dont know what to do... Maybe it could be a good decision to wait a month before a new update. We could see whether (and how fast) the community can repair the most changes.

Or could it be good to have two kinds of maps you can download? For example:


+---------------------------------

+ ( ) Germany West (July 2012, before redaction bot)

+ (x) Germany West (August 2012, after redaction bot)

...

But that could irritate the "normal" customers...

mapfactor could also use the data of the OSM "Fork": FOSM But that would be a MUCH smaller community... with less server power...


Well, I dont know it.


Maybe you should skip one or two update cycles... We could test some routing examples (made of the new OSM data) by using an online routing program (like http://www.yournavigation.org/ ... well, when their data is updated...)


Greetings,
Ando
P.S.: Sorry for bad english...

current plan is:
NavigatorFREE (PC/Pocket) version 11 + Android 0.9.x ---> CC OSM data, with no more updates
new beta
NavigatorFREE (PC/Pocket) version 12 + Android 0.10.x ---> ODbL OSM data, with regular updates

yea, so you've already installed the navigator on your motonav huh?

so the challenge is still on ? good luck then...
:)

If you would like to test/download August 2012 maps (after bot processing), here is the latest Android beta version which has access to the data (backup your old data!):
   http://download.mapfactor.com/mapfactor_navigator_0_10_x.apk
(note the e-shop is not fully functional)

Hi pmszcz,
I should write a note here yesterday, sorry - we released 0.10.60 on Google Play yesterday and for a short period (week?) we linked Android 0.10.x updates back to July data. Setup utility ver12 works as before. We are currently computing September data, which seems to be much better than August data ... so when majority of countries are computed we will let this available also for "Google Play people".
sorry for any inconvenience caused
   Martin

Yesterday I updated the Luxembourg-map. Could it be, that the map isn't ready loaded? Nearly nothing is in there. Does it depend on the license change? Or did there has been an error while computing it?

Well, I returned to the last v11-map. That is quit fine, but will the new v12-map be fixed soon?

 

Greatings

Thank you Martin for that fast Luxembourg-Fix!

That looks better ;-)

Thanks, yes, our mistake ... sigh ... interrupted upload. Should be fixed today.
thank you
   Martin

Hi,

first of all thanks for giving us the navigator. Good job you've done.

Now my question:

I'm using maps of Germany.

In some cities I can't search for certain streets, because the streets, that are named and clearly visible in the map don't seem to be assigned to the city properly. Instead: If i enter the district name within the city as city/region name I can immediately find the street.

My problem is, it doesn't work if I only enter city name and street name, not knowing the name of the district.

Examples:

City: Hamburg
District: Eimsbüttel
Street: Hohe Weide

City: Munich (München)
District: Friedenheim
Street: Elsenheimerstrasse

On Navigator: If I enter Region / City: "Hamburg"; Street "Hohe Weide" - no success.
But: If I enter Region / City: "Eimsbüttel"; Street "Hohe Weide" - success!

Same in Munich.

On the PC Openstreetmap the streets seem to be assigned properly. As in the examples above:

Example 1: If I search "Hohe Weide, Hamburg" on www.openstreetmap.org the search result delivers:
Residential Hohe Weide, Eimsbüttel, Hamburg, 20253, Germany

Example 2: If I search elsenheimerstrasse, München the search result delivers:
Secondary Road Elsenheimerstraße, Friedenheim, Dom Pedro, Munich, Regierungsbezirk Oberbayern, Free State of Bavaria, 80687, Germany

In both cases you can see district, as well as the town.

What if i don't know the district?


Now comes something odd: 2 weeks ago I could find at least the Hamburg streets by select "Hamburg landmass" as region. That has gone since my last map update on Oct 24 2012. What went wrong?

Thanks so much for your help.

S. Roy

Hi Tomas,

your reply sounds like this is a rather complicated problem.
However: thanks for reacting so quickly!

but theN How come "hamburg landmass" was possibl which it is no

I have a question:

On my RoadNavigator is currently installed the free version 12 of the maps.

For extra functions "my license is not valid"

Anyone a idea how to obtain a paid full version with access to all extra functions ?

Can not find a answer

Tracking and more important TMC.

Switching to a paid version of Road Navigator 

Did I get you right? Using free maps, I can use TMC in Germany? Please tell me how - on Android.