Mapear and cGPSMapper Maps issue on Android Garmin Street Pilot 2.16-workaround

**JHAres** · 19th July 2013, 08:37 PM

Hi,

The people from Mapear Project is not protecting Garmin because SP "illegal" or whatever... Mapear is not involved with Garmin people, that's why they use cGPSMapper and not an "official" compiler for the maps. Is not a "monopoly", is just a free and collaborative project.

Seems there are misconceptions or bad intentions around here against Mapear. They work for free...!!! And they have the better maps because the members collaborations... Geez...

I think other maps from cGPSMapper will have the same issues. Maybe you can try with Tracksource from Brazil or Malsing maps.

Regards.

**catymag** · 21st July 2013, 01:22 PM

Originally Posted by JHAres

Seems there are misconceptions or bad intentions around here against Mapear.

You are wrong, I opened this thread just to join all the post about this issue with Mapear and cGPSMapper compiled maps in general.
Probably we'll see some issues with cGPSMapper maps routing in new Nuvis too, I've heard about it already.

I think other maps from cGPSMapper will have the same issues. Maybe you can try with Tracksource from Brazil or Malsing maps.

Already wrote in post n. 6

They work for free...!!! And they have the better maps because the members collaborations... Geez...

Sure and we all appreciate it.

**Berlin23** · 28th July 2013, 10:56 PM

Originally Posted by catymag

You are wrong, I opened this thread just to join all the post about this issue with Mapear and cGPSMapper compiled maps in general.
Probably we'll see some issues with cGPSMapper maps routing in new Nuvis too, I've heard about it already.

Do you know if cGPSMapper maps are having the same issue on SP for iOS or/and Windows Phone?
Is somebody having the same issues on Nüvis too?

**Charola** · 29th July 2013, 12:29 PM

Are there news about this? I've just found out about SP on Android. Installed it past week and tried Mapear at home. It seemed "muted" but stable. I made a route inside Buenos Aires and left it on connected to the computer (USB) I left the phone there and when I came back it was obviously there, with SP running (so the screen didn't lock, which is the right thing to do if you are navigating).

I went to the car, connected it to the USB to keep the battery running and when I was about to get to the destination I've found out that the app crashed once and again. I finally discovered how to get back in. It's tricky, but also the phone kept locking. So it became useless, each time I unlocked I had to re-start a lot of tricks to get in.

Because it goes out of the application after routing (which did not happened in some cases) You drop down the config menu (where WiFi is) and click on the SP icon "Click to continue". It loads again and goes to the main menu. Click view map, and there you are with your old route.

Still it crashed so many times that I had to restart the phone for it to work again since the blue arrow kept showing even when I killed it.

I'm not ready to exchange "la gallega" for "la muda" the first one is more "gauchita"

**Charola** · 29th July 2013, 12:38 PM

I'm posting this as another message not to mess up with the quite extensive previous message.

proyectomapear.com.ar won't discuss anything about SP on Android because of many factors.

1) they make maps, Garmin compatible and they have been trying to get Garmin attention for a long time, but Garmin instead of helping was always developing new firmwares for GPSes that prevented Mapear and others to work correctly on their software. They may have fixed them already but from time to time that issue shows again (call it a regressive bug).

2) they are a free project, (not opensource) and they don't want any trouble so you can't talk piracy related stuff in their forum, which is right. so you can't discuss running mapear on your S3 because it's considered that they are helping you break the law.

3) Authoritism. No they are not like that, but some of the moderators and members that have spent the past 10 years on the forum are quite agressive on their answers because there's always people asking the most stupid things over and over and they grew tired of it. I don't support that, but sometimes they must moderate.

**catymag** · 29th July 2013, 12:56 PM

Originally Posted by Charola

3) Authoritism. No they are not like that, but some of the moderators and members that have spent the past 10 years on the forum are quite agressive on their answers because there's always people asking the most stupid things over and over and they grew tired of it. I don't support that, but sometimes they must moderate.

I can understand this and sometimes one can have alas! the same feelings, but Moderators should be "moderate", politeness and patience are mandatory or better to do something else

Moderation doesn't mean authoritism, but make the forum readable for users, animate discussions,help and make respect some basic rules needed for a correct forum management.

**Berlin23** · 29th July 2013, 04:12 PM

Originally Posted by Charola

I'm posting this as another message not to mess up with the quite extensive previous message.

proyectomapear.com.ar won't discuss anything about SP on Android because of many factors.

1) they make maps, Garmin compatible and they have been trying to get Garmin attention for a long time, but Garmin instead of helping was always developing new firmwares for GPSes that prevented Mapear and others to work correctly on their software. They may have fixed them already but from time to time that issue shows again (call it a regressive bug).

Not quite true. First of all Mapear use cGPSMapper which is not officially supported by Garmin, so they are not going to get any attention from them.
Garmin is free to develop new firmwares to their products and, of course, they don't care if custom maps as Mapear would fit in.

Originally Posted by Charola

3) Authoritism. No they are not like that, but some of the moderators and members that have spent the past 10 years on the forum are quite agressive on their answers because there's always people asking the most stupid things over and over and they grew tired of it. I don't support that, but sometimes they must moderate.

I can assure you that they are very authoritarian people.
I've seen many posts where people just give legal information and get shut down because they believe it has something to do with illegal stuff, and the most important, very often the moderators make mistakes about a subject and never (I repeat: NEVER) give an apologize.
If that is not authoritarianism, then I don't now the meaning of it.