Just added new street, but not appearing on phone :( (newbie)

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#1

Hey guys/girls,

I’m new to OSM, great idea to whom ever invented it. I’m using Mapfactor aka Navigator on my Sony Xperia Arc S. Couldn’t find my street so I added it online via OSM.org. Checked in MapFactor again but it doesn’t seem to have registered my new street. I’m guessing I have to wait for MapFactor updates? Is there a way to manually update it? Would MapQuest be better? Perhaps this is the difference between paid and free GPS apps…

P.S I’m from Australia, maybe I should move post there?

Cheers

#2

I’m new to OSM, great idea to whom ever invented it.

Steve Coast/UK.

I’m guessing I have to wait for MapFactor updates?

yes.

Is there a way to manually update it?

No.

Would MapQuest be better?

You can try.

If you don’t need routing (only want to see a online slippy map) then you could try apps which show the standard Mapnik Layer.
This is updated in few minutes after you add a new street.

Welcome to OSM,
Chris

#3

Hello tr33tv,

Have a look at http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Android for more android apps using OSM derived maps.

The app with most frequent map updates is Osmand.

Also: try reading the OSM wiki in general for a few days, thus you will get to know how OSM and its projects work.

#4

Thanks for the replies fellas! Thought I subscribed to this thread already but I forgot to add my email…
Anyways I found an alternative solution - use integrated google search since thats constantly updated. I have 250MB of data which is plenty for searching.

Just have one small gripe (a bit off topic) - Mapfactor has seemed to crash a couple times I think mainly due to crappy spec phone (Sony Xperia Arc S, 1.4GHz, 512MB Ram) but it’s usually when I play around a lot and press different functions repeatly. Wisepilot (came stock on device) is a little worse when I treat it the same way. Do you think it’s the phone that cannot keep up? I’m currently running Gingerbread 2.3.4 clean install with very few downloaded apps ~8. Ram usage is always about halfway 150MB used and 150MB spare which is a LOT better than when I had ICS installed (quite laggy on ICS)

Thanks

#5

I’m using OsmAnd on my phone (0.8GHz, 512MB RAM), which runs smoothly. Another advantage of OsmAnd: You can update the data yourself and don’t need to wait for them to do it :wink:

#6

Thanks mate I’ll give it a shot!