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Dave Frequent Visitor

Joined: Sep 10, 2003 Posts: 6460 Location: UK
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Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 8:04 am Post subject: Mapopolis Wishlist |
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Please post any new features you would like to see in Mapopolis in this message.
Last edited by Dave on Sun Nov 30, 2003 1:08 pm; edited 1 time in total |
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Camerio10 Occasional Visitor

Joined: 07/05/2003 17:11:49 Posts: 4 Location: Canada
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Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 8:04 am Post subject: Mapopolis Wishlist |
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Autozoom. When slowing down/going slow, zoom to the streets closer. When going faster, zoom out to see more streets around. |
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jsheathcote Occasional Visitor

Joined: 16/01/2003 17:08:17 Posts: 8 Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 8:04 am Post subject: Mapopolis Wishlist |
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Option to edit the suggested route. Sometimes local knowledge, and obvious alternative road give prefered routes.
Got to say I love the idea of Autozoom suggested by Camerio10. _________________ Jason - HTC Touch HD with Garmin XT UK |
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Mriswith Occasional Visitor

Joined: 03/04/2003 14:19:59 Posts: 3 Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 8:04 am Post subject: Mapopolis Wishlist |
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A much higher contrast route line on the map. I find that in bright sunlight I can't always tell which is the route and which is a major road. (and yes, I have changed the colour sceme, and I can't get one that works in all conditions) |
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jsheathcote Occasional Visitor

Joined: 16/01/2003 17:08:17 Posts: 8 Location: United Kingdom
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Posted: Sun Sep 14, 2003 8:04 am Post subject: Mapopolis Wishlist |
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Via Points. so you can plan a single route taking in a number of stopping places.
_________________ Jason - HTC Touch HD with Garmin XT UK |
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israel_id Occasional Visitor

Joined: Nov 06, 2003 Posts: 14
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Posted: Tue Dec 02, 2003 6:05 pm Post subject: An odometer - trip computer seems very useful |
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Having come from a Garmin Emap mapping unit
An odometer /trip computer seems very useful when tracking your total mileage for the week or trying to explain to your boss how long you stopped for in traffic,
It would be nice to know the following info in a single screen and example
Distance : 60 miles
Stopped Time : 2 min
Moving Average : 50 mph
Moving Time : 58min
Overall average 50 mph
Total Time : 60min
Max speed :90mph Odometer : 400miles
The last section indicating the max speed ever achieved and the total mile recorded before reset.
With option to reset max speed or odometer or trip.
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AMG_Roadster Occasional Visitor

Joined: Jun 04, 2004 Posts: 24 Location: Atlanta, GA USA
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Posted: Sat Aug 14, 2004 1:21 am Post subject: |
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1) Better spoke instructions.
2) More route customization choices, e.g. fewest turns, permanent avoid, prefered roads (ability to hav routing algorythm use specified roads when a route intersects one of these roads).
3) Ability to specofy a traffic jam and have Mapopolis avoid the road for the current trip.
3) Better routing algorythm. Some routing yeilds odd routes. |
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Wlodek Occasional Visitor

Joined: Jan 17, 2005 Posts: 20 Location: In England's Lake District
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Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 3:50 pm Post subject: |
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AMG_Roadster wrote: |
2) More route customization choices, e.g. fewest turns, permanent avoid, prefered roads (ability to hav routing algorythm use specified roads when a route intersects one of these roads).
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I'll second that. I got some very peculiar routing between work and home involving probably the slowest route possible. A possibility of including local knowledge in routing would be useful. This could be say a 'via' option where you can include waypoints, roads, POIs or place names. So the current dialogue could be 'from' 'via' 'to'.
Or even 'from', 'via', 'avoiding', 'to' with the two middle ones optional.
Someone mentioned summary - this would be great. I use Garmin Vista for walking (and used to use it for driving). A 'Trip computer' view would be great - in the end it could show the summary, but you could monitor your progress.
I'll post more later.
All the best, great forum!
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lbendlin Pocket GPS Staff


Joined: 02/11/2002 22:41:59 Posts: 11878 Location: Massachusetts, USA
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Posted: Wed Jan 19, 2005 3:56 pm Post subject: |
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Wlodek wrote: | A possibility of including local knowledge in routing would be useful. |
Guys, you are missing the point a bit. Navigation programs are there to guide you in unfamiliar terrain, not to argue with you about special local knowledge.
Please note there is a new beta out for Mapopolis (currently version 4.50.34) which adresses many of the items here.
The Beta is available here http://www.kudzumonthly.com/mapopolis/PPC/
and the discussion around it is held on our partner forum here
http://www.gpspassion.com/forumsen/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=19126 _________________ Lutz
Report Map Errors here:
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johnt_x50 Occasional Visitor

Joined: Jan 21, 2005 Posts: 1
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Posted: Fri Jan 21, 2005 8:22 pm Post subject: Menu items for all the features available |
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I hope you put all the features available in mapopolis as menu items as well. I'd like to use button mappers to map buttons as macro so that I can use more than one function for each hardware button. "Voiced Status Update", for example, is not available as menu and I could not record as macro for this feature.
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syntheticzero Occasional Visitor

Joined: Dec 04, 2005 Posts: 1
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Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2005 11:56 pm Post subject: Mapopolis wishlist |
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I LOVE Mapopolis, but one pet peeve I've had for a long time: the way it displays city/town names makes no sense. Basically it seems to treat all city/town names, no matter what the size, in the same way. Thus, if you zoom out to a larger zoom level in say, California, instead of seeing Los Angeles, San Diego, Anaheim, San Francisco, Sacramento, etc., you see all sorts of random tiny little towns crammed on top of each other, often obscuring important map features. Mapopolis does a great job of showing just the relevant major roads and streets at a given zoom level, but cities it treats somewhat randomly. What's worse, sometimes even in an apparently open area with a major town, no town name at all is displayed? Also, city/town names that are displays seem to vary randomly as you scroll.
The algorithm should be revamped so larger cities are displayed preferentially, and at larger zoom levels, smaller cities simply aren't displayed at all. In any event a better algorithm for displaying city names is really essential for this feature to be of any use at all. |
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G_Man74uk Occasional Visitor

Joined: Jan 11, 2006 Posts: 2
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 6:42 pm Post subject: |
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I'm fairly new to Mapopolis, but have managed to add POI speed camera locations using the database and POI Edit / POI Converter.
One thing I haven't been able to do is add new .bmp files, so that new POI categories show up differently on the maps. I assume this isn't possible at the moment as POI Edit had a pre-determined library of icons.
Graham
I-mate sp3i running Windows Mobile 2003
Mapopolis for SmartPhones v4.6 |
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lbendlin Pocket GPS Staff


Joined: 02/11/2002 22:41:59 Posts: 11878 Location: Massachusetts, USA
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Posted: Wed Jan 11, 2006 10:16 pm Post subject: |
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I don't think you can change the icons - those are hard coded in Mapopolis (POIEdit has no share in this I think) _________________ Lutz
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