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Data for Germany too old
Topics like this are coming once a month. It takes eventually up to two months from changes effective in OSM to appear in Mapfactor's maps.

Comment by Oldie January 2016 permalink
Download updates checkbox tick not visible enough
:-D

Comment by Oldie January 2016 permalink
Stop asking to buy TomTom maps
Navigator free has a (quite small) price, and that is, what you call "nagging". Until now, I am willing to pay that "price", because I get the message only from time to time (after weeks or so).

Comment by Oldie January 2016 permalink
Test of Android version 2.1.x
How can I check Premium features? Buying "fails".

Comment by Oldie January 2016 permalink
can't get nav free to load maps
In my Setup Utiliy I find a branch "Amerika", opened this I find the countries on the American continent (North and South) and another subbranch called "USA OSM". If I open this, I can select the USA states I want to download. I …

Comment by Oldie January 2016 permalink
Strange distances to next turn shown
In my latest Android Version from the playstore, above 500 m distance the display shows o.6 km, 0.5 km and so on. Below 500 m, i get (presumably) exact distances in m steadily decreasing. At the time, when the announcement for 200m starts, the displ…

Comment by Oldie January 2016 permalink
Disappearing Map
I have those problems from time to time after sync of maps with MyPhoneExplorer from pc to phone.

Comment by Oldie January 2016 permalink
MapFactor hangs when calculate a specific address on WP 8.1 (but maybe on Android and IOS too?)
This part of Seepromenade in front of house 11 is tagged as service alley. Seems not to be correct though. Map errors are not the fault of Mapfactor. @aufderhut: if you are there, you could change OSM settings or post here the facts to the street an…

Comment by Oldie December 2015 permalink
Gibt es auch Outdoorkarten?
For route calculation with Oruxmaps see from page 58 of the Oruxmaps manual http://oruxmaps.com/oruxmapsmanual_de.pdf. The German menu lists even "Routenplaner". But your are right, that there are no voice commands as in MFN. And there is…

Comment by Oldie December 2015 permalink
Gibt es auch Outdoorkarten?
Oruxmaps ist eine Super-Software zur Darstellung von Topo-Karten. Sie hat allerdings keine eigenen Karten. Für Oruxmaps nehme ich die Karten von openandromaps.org, die auch monatlich aktualisiert werden. Basieren auch auf OSM und sind auch kostenl…

Comment by Oldie December 2015 permalink
Trying to move My Places to a new phone...
That may depend on your operating system.

Comment by Oldie December 2015 permalink
Using smartphone as GPS navigator in a car
Not that I know. I do not automatically accept calls, so I need the call interface anyway. I bring Navigator to the foreground manually. So may be this is something with your calling app.

Comment by Oldie December 2015 permalink
Frequency of maps updating
They take the world file, work for a couple of days on it und publish new maps, when converting is done. That takes a couple of days again. So if you change OSM data just after they have downloaded the world file, it may take up to six weeks or so u…

Comment by Oldie December 2015 permalink
ETA computation in urban areas with OSM data: what is the urban trigger?
I think I wrote it already somewhere in this forum, but I did not look where. Until a couple of days ago I used my own speed settings as those from @shlubu, just not as drastic the reduction of urban speed (down to 15to18). Until I found out on one …

Comment by Oldie December 2015 permalink
Map transfer MSC mode vs. MTP mode
Thank you very much. I found now, that after switching back from msc to mtp the directory was up-to-date as well. Funny thing though.

Comment by Oldie December 2015 permalink
Is Navigator compatible with MirrorLink ?
I would not need a mirror of my phone in the car, since I use the phone in my car. Why have two displays for navigation instead of one? And the other thing is, that mirrorlink is for a number of cars but not for all. There are major car brands not …

Comment by Oldie December 2015 permalink
Strange routing
On my Asus K004 routing is straight ahead, even if the target is on the other side of the river. MFN 2.0.30. Map Germany West should be the latest. Download last week as far as I remember.

Comment by Oldie December 2015 permalink
How do you use Digger
[quote] Digger seems to be a bit dumb, no proper instructions makes it difficult for people not used to manipulating files[/quote] You are completly right! http://forum.mapfactor.com/discussion/comment/11341#Comment_11341

Comment by Oldie December 2015 permalink
How do you use Digger
Use Digger to convert to gpx files? There are more useful tools than Digger to that, like routeconverter etc. Digger is to be used to create .mca not gpx files, isn't ist?

Comment by Oldie December 2015 permalink
Map Files Location in Android 4.3
In extended settings you can even change the card, or just check the installation path.

Comment by Oldie November 2015 permalink
Route calculation - TomTom v OSM
But MFN did something on the maps recently. When I travelled to Dresden from Chemnitz on tuesday (approx. 80km) I found out, that my existing car profile calculated lots of time too much. So I switched to a new empty car profile based on MFN's…

Comment by Oldie November 2015 permalink
Route calculation - TomTom v OSM
I know such "surprise" routes as well (Android, OSM). In most cases I could accept route calculations from MFN. Only when I was in southern England some weeks ago, I wondered why the time actually needed for the trip from Brighton to Hast…

Comment by Oldie November 2015 permalink
Lack of a search button
Yeah and once switched from mobile to desktop view, in find no way back to mobile view on the phone ...

Comment by Oldie November 2015 permalink
MapFactor OSM Data Processing
I have now state names instead of city names on the countries, exept Estonia. The map of Estonia is on the tablet, as for example German maps. For Germany I get "Deutschland". At a certain zoom level I get "Reval", which is the G…

Comment by Oldie November 2015 permalink
Map mode (3D/2D)
I wonder, how this could work. If you do not navigate, the soft can not know, into which direction you intend to drive. It only can assume, that you follow the road (or simply the direction) ahead and only, if you are moving. If you stand still, t…

Comment by Oldie November 2015 permalink
Lack of a search button
In the lower right corner of the mobile version you can go to "web version" and have the search box top right then :-o . Anyway that is not true responsive design ...

Comment by Oldie November 2015 permalink
Setup utility as windows task
I know, I did that already.

Comment by Oldie November 2015 permalink
Configure display format of panel data
+1. We had this earlier in this forum as well.

Comment by Oldie November 2015 permalink
Earth_osm.mca File Download - Can I Use This to View a World Map?
We discussed different file sizes for maps here as well: http://forum.mapfactor.com/discussion/comment/10613#Comment_10613

Comment by Oldie October 2015 permalink
Adding height profile to routes and other improvement suggestions
No OAM is vectorial as well. "OpenAndroMaps offers downloadable vector maps for smartphones for free." from http://www.openandromaps.org/en/ For me the difference is, that topographic maps use a bunch more information from the OSM world …

Comment by Oldie October 2015 permalink

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