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MikeB Frequent Visitor
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auntyflossie Occasional Visitor
Joined: Feb 26, 2006 Posts: 13
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Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 3:36 pm Post subject: Mapfactor Navigator |
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Hello. I would have been nice if you had made it clear which of your speed camera data works with this Mapfactor Navigation APP for Android. |
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MaFt Pocket GPS Staff
Joined: Aug 31, 2005 Posts: 15249 Location: Bradford, West Yorkshire
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Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 3:44 pm Post subject: Re: Mapfactor Navigator |
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auntyflossie wrote: | Hello. I would have been nice if you had made it clear which of your speed camera data works with this Mapfactor Navigation APP for Android. |
We're not aware of any POI import facility...
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stonecot Occasional Visitor
Joined: Jul 28, 2005 Posts: 5
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Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 4:56 pm Post subject: Re: Mapfactor Navigator |
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There would appear to be an import facility for some sort of Camera alert data base and also for Red Light data, which can be found in the same menu option as the map imports.
I've imported this and it shows cameras in our area, but I presume that the data will be out of date.
Still investigating as this application will not be eating my data allowances, especially when outside of country.
Update to previous post:-
The format of the file is *.mca and the date is July 18, 2011
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mikeharris Lifetime Member
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Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 5:06 pm Post subject: |
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I asked the same question on the MapFactor forum
http://forum.mapfactor.com/discussion/244/pocketgps-speedcam-data
I'm still not sure what to use though...
mdx 9:57AM
Ok, if you have "the pocketgps speedcamera data" for MapFactor NavigatorFREE or Navigator, you can just copy them to /sdcard/navigator/data (and replace the ones you just downloaded from our server). The speedcamera data are the same for PC, PDA, PND as well as now for Android program.
regards
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stonecot Occasional Visitor
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Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 5:21 pm Post subject: Mapfactor |
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pocket GPS world release a version of data for MapFactor, so I assume that we just copy it over as per your post. |
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mikeharris Lifetime Member
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Posted: Fri Apr 20, 2012 6:41 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, but which version is that? I don't see mapfactor in the drop down list...
I ended-up making the .mca files myself last time I needed them ;( |
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253 Lifetime Member
Joined: Mar 05, 2007 Posts: 1058 Location: The green bit between the M40, M4 and M25.
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Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 12:31 am Post subject: |
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Sorry if I've got this all wrong, but I blame the Australians, because I've been drinking a bottle of their red wine.
This Navigator App is for Android phones, and the PGPSW camera database would be the Camera Alert which would come down direct onto the phone. I don't know if you can download to a PC / Mac and then copy to the phone. So there is no 'drop down list', which i am assuming you mean the list from the PGPSW web site.
I have an Android phone, I have not tried this app, but again I assume that CA will run in the back ground and wan of cameras like it does with Navigon or any other navigation app that does not allow custom poi's to be added. _________________ Triumph Tbird 1700. And now a Bonnie T100. |
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M8TJT The Other Tired Old Man
Joined: Apr 04, 2006 Posts: 10118 Location: Bexhill, South Sussex, UK
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Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 7:53 am Post subject: |
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253 wrote: | Sorry if I've got this all wrong, | I think that you have. It seems that the s/w itself will handle speedcams, and the discussion is to try to find if one of our d/l is compatible and if so, which one. |
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MaFt Pocket GPS Staff
Joined: Aug 31, 2005 Posts: 15249 Location: Bradford, West Yorkshire
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Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 10:16 am Post subject: |
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Ah yes, it's all coming back to me now...
We stopped supporting the MapFactor MCA download a number of years back (I hadn't realised it was still in the compatibility chart!).
Each month (when we released monthly) MapFactor would download the database, convert it for us and then (after a week or so) send us the updated MCA file to upload to our servers. They wouldn't give us any software for us to do it ourselves and receiving the updates got less and less reliable.
When we moved to weekly updates the MCA basically went out the window...
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mikeharris Lifetime Member
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Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2012 10:26 am Post subject: |
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Blimey, coming back to me as well. I blame it on age It was 4 years ago!!
Last time I rolled my own .mca files! I could automate the whole process except the download of the speed camera database files so I gave up with it. I really cant be bothered to do it manually...
http://www.pocketgpsworld.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=64011
I might revisit the .mca file format to see if its possible to reverse engineer it
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mhb Regular Visitor
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Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2013 7:43 am Post subject: MapFactor Speed Cameras |
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Hi MaFt,
The free to download 'Digger12' software is supposed to be able to convert the Pocket GPS speed camera info to the required MCA format. It would be good if Pocket GPS were able to provide a MCA file for download as is still implied on the Supported Systems page. |
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