News: Navteq MapReporter for better maps Options

[Rob Ot]

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Navteq MapReporter for better maps

Map supplier NAVTEQ now offer, just like their competitor Tele Atlas, an opportunity to report map errors directly to them via their website.

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[robinb]

does not work for UK or spain.

just sits there.

pretty usless

[Andy_P]

What are you expecting it to do?
It doesn't automatically move the map when you enter the country in the first box. But I just tried entering my home address Lat/Long co-ordinates and it found my house. All the text entry boxes and selection buttons work. I didn't actually press "Submit" as I don't have Navteq maps so don't have anything to really report.
But it certainly seems to be working for me.

[Jolly Roger]

Well it didn't work for me first time, but second attempt worked fine, make sure you close the big welcome "box" that covers the map screen

[DrPepper]

tested it two times, does not work. Tried everything with coordinates, address and even pointing/zooming the map it goes every time wrong country...... It finds address but goes wrong country and when I point the map to right city and then zoom it goes different country...

[Dan]

No matter where I zoom in to it always zooms in to the same place (totally different than where I wanted to go). Tried in several browsers too. Pretty sucky.

[Guest_arthur_*]

I have reported a new roundabout and it worked fine for me

[Andy_P]

Sounds like a particular browser set-up problem
Working fine with Firefox 1.5

[Jolly Roger]

You are selecting the county in the search menu aren't you?
Click and drag the map of the world so your area is in the centre, then use the zoom slider on the left to zoom in ! Just click on the little boxes in the slider but don't go more than 25% up from the bottom to start with or you end up in the middle of nowhere

This post has been edited by Jolly Roger: Jan 8 2007, 15:19

[DrPepper]

Now its tested with newest IE, FF and Opera nothing works. Opera doesnt show whole map.
If I get the map centered eg. Helsinki Finland and then try to zoom in the cursor goes to Estonia....
same happens with address search, it finds address ok but it finds it near Riga Estonia...now when I move the cursor/map to the right place and try to zoom in little bit if finds again Riga...

[Jolly Roger]

Yep definitely broken, works ok with UK Dover, but even putting in a city that is already onscreen in Scandinavia gets nowhere

[Dan]

Even when it finds an address in central Stockholm it takes me to the Baltic Sea next to Gotland. Go Navteq intelligence!

[Andy_P]

Well it just found correct addresses from:
1. a London postcode only
2. a London street name only
3. a Kent street name plus Village name (tiny country lane)

I got the same results in both IE and Firefox

I don't know any full addresses in Scandinavia, when I only put a vague address in it said something like freeform addresses are not supported in this country, please give more detail or manually zoom and pan the map. When I tried that, it DID seem to jump about as you zoom in.

[Dan]

See where Vasagatan 2 in Stockholm takes you for example.

[sgould]

My own address is fine. My work address is "map reporter error" . Work postcode is about 2 miles away.