I am not sure what ‘Full offline availability of all your routes’ means?
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Syncronisation - A new feature in app update 4.3.0
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I am not sure what ‘Full offline availability of all your routes’ means?
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Richard
Before this release your routes were only stored in the cloud. If you wanted them on the phone to use offline you had to download them.
You can now mark your entire library as “available offline”. All changes to routes will be synchronised to your device(s). You no longer need to make each route available offline individually.
In the app, go into the “routes “ menu then click in top right corner
Thank you.
1,470 to go…. Apparently…..
PS It counts down in blocks of five.
1,470 to go…. Apparently…..
PS It counts down in blocks of five.
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I wonder if the syncing applies to future routes I create too? Or whether I need to resync again?
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Thank you.
Synchronisation crashed at about 300 to go. Start again…
Actually, nobody needs to synchronise their entire library, I only did it to see what happens.
Synchronise the routes you need or just ‘Save as’ to your phone, as in the traditional method.
Actually, nobody needs to synchronise their entire library, I only did it to see what happens.
Synchronise the routes you need or just ‘Save as’ to your phone, as in the traditional method.
It crashed again at about the 300 routes to go mark, this time with an error message ‘Local database is full’, whatever that means?
That definitely sounds like something to feedback on the forum. This is the first version with syncing, so they’ll want to know about issues before everyone starts encountering them.
I am reporting it now.
Update:
I have deleted the app on my iPhone and reinstalled it….. which (unsurprisingly) deleted all the off-line maps, too.
The error message has gone, but I think I can only synchronize one route at a time. The synchronisation of my entire library, seems to be impossible.
I have deleted the app on my iPhone and reinstalled it….. which (unsurprisingly) deleted all the off-line maps, too.
The error message has gone, but I think I can only synchronize one route at a time. The synchronisation of my entire library, seems to be impossible.
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Whilst I wait for the offline maps to reinstall, there is one piece of good news.
I have the navigation app on a second iPhone. When I open the updated app there, the 21 synchronised routes (the number of routes that I syncronised individually, one at a time) are all there too. You don’t have to repeat the process if you have two phones.
I have the navigation app on a second iPhone. When I open the updated app there, the 21 synchronised routes (the number of routes that I syncronised individually, one at a time) are all there too. You don’t have to repeat the process if you have two phones.
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One thing I am not sure about.
If you alter an offline version of the route on your phone, say to reduce a pre-planned day out from 250 miles to 200, does it synchronise ‘backwards’ amending the original version in your library, too?
If you alter an offline version of the route on your phone, say to reduce a pre-planned day out from 250 miles to 200, does it synchronise ‘backwards’ amending the original version in your library, too?
Yes. You can edit on web or phone and it will sync. It also does conflict resolution in case you edited on phone while offline ands also changed the same route in the web planner. When you sync it will make you decide what to do with the route that you changed in two places.
Thank you.
You just need to be careful that editing a version, as in my example of shortening a route for a day out, doesn’t also shorten the ‘mother’ version, which you’d might like to keep ‘as was’.
I can see a value in creating copies of any route(s) you wish to change and synchronising those, using the copy version to amend.
Best not to think of them as mother and child, or whatever nomenclature you prefer. Instead think of it as it’s THE route. Don’t matter if you edit it in the cloud, or on the phone when offline. You are editing THE route and everything will catch up when you next have internet access.
It’s like if you delete an email on your phone while it’s offline. You’d still see it on another device, but as soon as your phone comes online and everything catches up, the email would be deleted from all your other devices.
Thank you.
I can accept that the ‘mother and child’ illustration is not accurate. I can understand your illustration of ‘THE route’ and the example you gave.
I am happy enough not being able to synchronise my entire library, not least as I only did it as an experiment. As I generally want to keep THE route as was, and only possibly manipulate or alter a copy, I’ll adopt my own work around, as follows:
A. Create a copy of THE route, giving it a fresh name.
B. Synchronise the copy route.
I think that will work?
I can accept that the ‘mother and child’ illustration is not accurate. I can understand your illustration of ‘THE route’ and the example you gave.
I am happy enough not being able to synchronise my entire library, not least as I only did it as an experiment. As I generally want to keep THE route as was, and only possibly manipulate or alter a copy, I’ll adopt my own work around, as follows:
A. Create a copy of THE route, giving it a fresh name.
B. Synchronise the copy route.
I think that will work?
Just so you know, you’re not the only person with the issue.
They tested the offline sync with up to 2,000 routes, however the space available in the local route database on the phone is a product of number of routes and route length. Therefore you could hit the limit with relatively few routes, if they’re long enough.
Hopefully they’ll sort it. This is their 1st release of the sync feature after all.
They tested the offline sync with up to 2,000 routes, however the space available in the local route database on the phone is a product of number of routes and route length. Therefore you could hit the limit with relatively few routes, if they’re long enough.
Hopefully they’ll sort it. This is their 1st release of the sync feature after all.
Thank you.
That makes perfect sense. I do need to have a weed through my library. Quite a number the routes are simply tests, whilst I played around with things learning how MyRoute worked. There is also a raft, where I have created routes for bods’ holidays “Me and my six mates, we want routes, no twisties….” and / or when I have tried to help people with problems in the GPS section.
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Just to close the loop, version 4.3.1 has increased the storage available to sync routes offline locally.
It’s in beta at the minute, but does mean your issue shouldn’t be a problem anymore once the version comes out of beta and into general release.
It’s in beta at the minute, but does mean your issue shouldn’t be a problem anymore once the version comes out of beta and into general release.
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