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Go into Playbook setting ->Security->Magellan->allow Magellan to access files.
Then when you hit the soccer icon a pdf will extract to misc directory.
It will be here-> Playbook/accounts/1000/shared/misc
Same thing happen to me, after uninstalling and reinstalling three time I clued in.Willard814 likes this.05-08-12 09:20 PMLike 1 - How hard can it be to send your existing Android app, Navionics, to be converted to a *.bar so that it can be run on the PlayBook. Even a few extra thousand Navionics software users ought to make that worthwhile!!
Us navigators tend to spend money. We use stable, trusted hardware and apps. Not toys. So please support us, guys.
Have a safe summer!!
navionics promised a blackberry charting app, has to be close to 4 years ago. said it was coming shortly. still not here. call them out on it and they won't comment. not sure how a ported app would handle downloading vector charts over wifi. i'd prefer to preload charts from a cmap card or cd to the tablet, and select the chart area needed from within the app. in fact, that's not a preference, it's how you do it with full blown chart plotters and charting software. unlock code loaded in the software to use your desired chart(s). if i already have the chart pack i just need the unlocks.
using stable, trusted hardware and apps means native software, not something ported to run on an emulator.05-08-12 11:25 PMLike 0 - Since after updated to v3. All i get is a blank screen now. Once I had uninstalled and installed again, it worked for a day. but today again the problem has come up. My other gps apps get the fix fine. so its not a problem with gps as i see it. I have tried restarting too. Here is my gps setup.05-09-12 05:07 AMLike 0
- What I do - WIFI on, open Magellan compass and wait for GPS signal. Once it find my location I go to Add->address and type some...in this case address in city (Varna) 447 km from my location (Sofia, Bulgaria). Once it is found I click to Get directions and the app create it. Then I go to Map cache and click Start. It takes around 5 minutes the I save it and exit the app. When I check thru Files and folders there is 515 kB file. Then I turn WIFI off, start app, wait for GPS signal, Open - click to previously saved cache name and.....I get the direction marked with blue line and voice command but there is no map loaded to my screen. It is white screen with blue line showing my direction. Am I missing something? If yes could you please be so kind to advice?05-09-12 06:24 AMLike 0
- Map Rotation: This is a known bug with Map Quest.
@ast_pc: Set the preference to track with GPS to auto-recenter. If you have a network connection and you are off route, it will auto-reroute.
@dbwoo & Todor Ninov: If you quit the application right after caching the data, you did not give the application time to store the cached data. You can force the storage under preferences/maps. This will hopefully be faster in 3.1.
Address search is a network service.
Map data is stored with the application. It is not user accessible.05-09-12 06:41 AMLike 0 - Thanks for your prompt reply. I wait till guidance apear on the right side of the screen. Then I click Save and quit the app.05-09-12 06:59 AMLike 0
- im not sure, but i think if you just pan aroung the map it will only cache the zoom level that you are panning, if you cache the route thru the menu, you can select there the zoom levels.DanTheDriver likes this.05-09-12 08:29 AMLike 1
- I have not read all 210 posts but will say that this app is decent. Still needs some work. Garmin it's not but then again it's not $100 either.
It showed me going 121mph when i was going 65.
It had me going 30 when I was stopped at a light.
If you divert from the directions it wants you to go it doesn't not recalculate quick enough.
The traffic feature is very nice and was accurate the past couple of days.
Like I said it needs some work and I'm willing to invest the $5.99 in it.
Looking forward to future upgrades.05-09-12 08:40 AMLike 0 - @EdS817: Any error in speed or location has to do the quality of the GPS being received. Some times GPS will jump to give inaccurate information. We have no control over the device GPS ability to obtain data in your area. For example, in our area, the GPS is within 1 meter and speed +/- 2 MPH.05-09-12 08:44 AMLike 0
- If you divert from the directions it wants you to go it doesn't not recalculate quick enough.
The traffic feature is very nice and was accurate the past couple of days.
Like I said it needs some work and I'm willing to invest the $5.99 in it.
Looking forward to future upgrades.
I am not trying to bad mouth it, just putting the information out there so it can be worked on and corrected. great app05-09-12 08:48 AMLike 0 - @EdS817: Any error in speed or location has to do the quality of the GPS being received. Some times GPS will jump to give inaccurate information. We have no control over the device GPS ability to obtain data in your area. For example, in our area, the GPS is within 1 meter and speed +/- 2 MPH.05-09-12 08:54 AMLike 0
- @EdS817: Any error in speed or location has to do the quality of the GPS being received. Some times GPS will jump to give inaccurate information. We have no control over the device GPS ability to obtain data in your area. For example, in our area, the GPS is within 1 meter and speed +/- 2 MPH.
I am just thinking out loud, as this whole tile thing seems to cause a lot of delays. I am used to using marine charting programs such as Nobeltec and Nobeltec is much more responsive even using bitmap charts. I have used it for many years so the pc/laptops in the early days would have had far inferior processors/hardware than the PlayBook. Would having the opportunity to just buy a whole map region so we can have less tile loading help the speed for scrolling around, zooming in and out?05-09-12 09:07 AMLike 0 - We tried something like that to smooth out the GPS data, but it caused more problems then it solved. When the car is accelerating and decelerating rapidly, smoothing out the data gives a lead or lag in the data that introduced more error. We will make a note of it to see if we can see if the GPS is weak/jumpy that smoothing might help.05-09-12 09:10 AMLike 0
- There is a balance between tiling, size to download, memory used with tiles and finally load time. You want the app to be responsive. Larger tiles take longer to download, longer to load from files and takes up more memory if the larger tiles is much larger than the actual screen size. The other trade off if using vector data (e.g. OSM) that you have to download a lot of data (could be more than the raster images), to then have to composite a scene based on zoom level. So in this case, you have to download a lot of data that might never be shown. For sample, the US weather radar overlay are tiles, but it took months of development to find an optimal size, fidelity and depth to load and display in a reasonable amount of time.
Thanks for your interest in helping to improve the product.05-09-12 09:18 AMLike 0 - There is a balance between tiling, size to download, memory used with tiles and finally load time. You want the app to be responsive. Larger tiles take longer to download, longer to load from files and takes up more memory if the larger tiles is much larger than the actual screen size. The other trade off if using vector data (e.g. OSM) that you have to download a lot of data (could be more than the raster images), to then have to composite a scene based on zoom level. .05-09-12 09:49 AMLike 0
- All map data starts out as vector. That is how it is defined. In this app, both MQ and OSM data from the MQ servers is raster. Both would probably be the same. The only main difference would be the size of each tile which depends on the number of colors being used in it. Once cached and stored on the device, load time is faster.05-09-12 09:53 AMLike 0
- All map data starts out as vector. That is how it is defined. In this app, both MQ and OSM data from the MQ servers is raster. Both would probably be the same. The only main difference would be the size of each tile which depends on the number of colors being used in it. Once cached and stored on the device, load time is faster.05-09-12 09:55 AMLike 0
- Thank you. We hope. We try to address the needs of the end user. We don't always get it spot on, but we learn and make adjustments.jafobabe and rotorwrench like this.05-09-12 10:47 AMLike 2
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Thanks again for the turn by turn, now I can eliminate hauling more stuff on my trips through airport security.. No longer need my gps, its charger and mounting bracket. (PB convertible case sits nicely on the dashboard )05-09-12 12:27 PMLike 0 - Just a quick 'kudos' to the devs for keeping us posted with help, advice and information. I just bought the app and am happy to support this software company.
Thanks.rotorwrench likes this.05-09-12 08:05 PMLike 1 - I am a tour bus driver and would love to see this app working full force. It has great potential and could be a great tool. At present I am using MS Streets and Trips with great success but would love to toss it and use my PB as my GPS.
I will be watching this one with great interest to see where it goes.
For me the $5.99 is a very easy price to swallow if the app works great. I pay $400-$600 every 4 or 5 years for a new GPS. I would be willing to pay a big price for this if it did the job.
the weather radar and traffic are great features on this app.
Now, if you could make it play a sound file when it got to a certain spot on the route...BINGO!05-09-12 09:31 PMLike 0
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