copying YOUR mapshares to a new map

franb · Banned Joined: Aug 10, 2007 Posts: 244

There's so much confusion (to me anyway) as some say just copy your mapsettings.cfg across & other say copy your MapUserPatch.dat

Can someone please confirm that this is the actual/correct method:-
http://discussions.tomtom.com/t5/LIVE-Services-HD-Traffic-and/How-To-Transfer-your-own-MapShare-corrections-to-a-new-map/td-p/2447

dhn · Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 1:47 pm Post subject:

And from the root, UserPatch.dat.

Don't think mapsettings.cfg is involved.
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IanS100 · Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 2:14 pm Post subject:

Could be a bit of a problem if any of them have already been implemented, unlikely as it is!

franb · Banned Joined: Aug 10, 2007 Posts: 244

Andy_P · Posted: Sun May 15, 2011 11:56 pm Post subject:

Guivre46 · Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 7:46 am Post subject:

Don't I remember a post where you found you could connect devices with BlueTooth and transfer file information?
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franb · Banned Joined: Aug 10, 2007 Posts: 244

mpwilson99 · Posted: Mon May 16, 2011 8:22 pm Post subject:

If you start (again) your own map corrections on a blank canvas,
delete the userpatch.dat & MapUserPatch.dat from all map folders.

You will notice that after you have made corrections, both of these files will become created.

IF you have more then one map on your device, you will notice that you will acquire another MapUserPatch.dat file when you switch maps, and so on. - this will have your corrections working on each map.

IF you already have a MapUserPatch.dat file in a map folder, but is different then the userpatch.dat, only the MapUserPatch.dat file data should be shown for that map.

From experience, its the MapUserPatch.dat which you want to take a backup from and move to each map.

I have not yet tested this, from device to device - mum give me my Go back!!
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franb · Banned Joined: Aug 10, 2007 Posts: 244

mikealder · Posted: Tue May 17, 2011 11:31 am Post subject:

mpwilson99 · Posted: Wed May 18, 2011 8:34 pm Post subject:

Just slightly diverging,
is it published anywhere about how many folks have to had reported corrections for it to appear under the "Corrections Reported By Some", "Corrections Reported by Many" etc...?

I usually have these ticked but would be interested in how many corrections it would take to get into that pot.

One thing im also not totally sure about, is the activation of Mapshare on the device between maps, if I switch it on and tick all the boxes, does that apply to all maps or just the one im using? ( perhaps i answered my question earlier on in the thread? )
Reason I ask, is because if i turn on or off mapshare, the mapsetting.cfg file also seems to get updated.
I use a backed up mapsetting.cfg file, so when my current one gets messy i reset with a backed up one, but this wouldn't of had mapshare activated at the time.
Perhaps the mapshare preferences are kept in the userpatch.dat file?

Thanks
MPW
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mpwilson99 · Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 5:32 pm Post subject:

Another quick question....

Do personalised corrections superseed any downloaded corrections?

i.e, if i did a map correction to a road by blocking it off both ways, then i downloaded corrections, and in the correction the road was to be reversed, whos correction would win?
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Andy_P · Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 9:12 pm Post subject:

Maybe neither.... It might be just the most recent one that wins.
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