J'ai acheté iPhiGéNie. Les cartes sont très bonnes, mais je ne peux pas comprendre comme utilizer l'app. Est-ce que il y a des information en anglais ? (Comme vous pouvez voir, mon français est très limité :-( Merci. (Michael au Maine E.U.)
Hi Michael,
I'm sorry that I had no time to translate the manuel yet, being overwhelmed by iPhiGéNie development.
The very largest part of iPhiGéNie users are French since iGN maps are very well known here but overlooked by foreigners.
So here is my proposal : ask here, in this forum section, whatever question you want, trying to order them in by priority. Simple question can be grouped in a thread. For more specific or detailed request, you may open a separate thread to help other English readers to find their way.
I'll do my best to answer as quickly as possible.
Feel free to use English, this is the place for it.
Oui, je comprends, et merci de votre assistance !
Bonne chance !
Michael
If I have an iPhone in America and travel to France, I assume I can download the tiles to the phone and run the application with data roaming off. I just need a gps signal correct ? I want to make sure I don't incur a lot of data charges for map loading.
Yes, this is correct. Ensure to leave the data roaming disabled (default setting). Use wifi when available to load tiles.
Notice : If you set data roaming ON, and load cache by wifi, you'll not incurs data charge either, but there is still a risk while panning or zooming to reach unavailable tiles and then resort to data transfer. Be careful in this case. Any time a square on screen is red, it is a loading tile. So it cost something if on phone network.
Alternatively, if you are still at home, you can preload a bunch of place before leaving. But this is not so easy because you may end up loading bunch of unnecessary tiles and miss some others useful. Daily wifi (hotel or such) is the best way to go.
Also, you'll not be able to search for place without data roaming. You still can do your search with wifi and keep interesting places as markers.
The concept of iPhiGéNie is brilliant. Can it be extended to other countries ? - e.g. Ordnance Survey UK maps ?
I certainly wish to do it in the future.
But this is not that simple. There are commercial/contract issues to sort, not the easiest nor the fastest part of the process. Then there are technical considerations : available format for maps, geographical projection, etc. This is not only a matter of maps availability and could implies a thorough rethink of iPhiGéNie core design.
When iPhiGéNie is mature enough, there will be time to dig into that challenge.
Hi Michael et al,
I'm using this whilst visiting friends in France, absolutely fantastic app !
My iPad somehow has set up google translate for me on this forum and when accessing the manual - clever buggers at Apple eh ! Therefore I can read the whole lot in understandable - not 100% correct, but hey ! - English. Therefore no need to spend time translating it all, carry on the good work with other countries maps. Esp. Ordnance survey - though I do use Memory Maps app it's no where as good as this, and it's damn expensive ! And NZ mapping please.
Well done and thanks for a super product at a reasonable price and novel manner of implementation.
Steve Brown
Thanks Steve.
The Google translate feature here is not from "clever Apple". It is setup in this site design. While far from perfect it does the job.
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