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Chris from Stafford
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02/01/15 01:22 PM (9 years ago)

Location Map stopped working

Location Map used to work fine but all of a sudden driving directions has stopped working Everything is right in control panel but does not work in iOS Stopped working on screens which used to work and wont work on new screens
 
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02/01/15 02:14 PM (9 years ago)
Works ok in developer mode on my iPhone but not on live devices
 
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02/01/15 02:16 PM (9 years ago)
Are you experiencing issues with a published app in the app store now, or something in development? I just tried on an app of mine that I have not touched for months, works OK though.
 
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02/01/15 02:36 PM (9 years ago)
It's issues with a published app. Works ok in developer mode but it's stopped working on the published app.
 
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02/01/15 02:53 PM (9 years ago)
In the past, I have found building my maps with driving directions from the control panel a bit iffy. Creating entries seems to work 1st time round, but when editing entries afterwards, some entries say there are driving instructions, some don't, even when all entries are created with driving instructions. I can't put my finger on why it happens, but as a work-around, I have found it easier to save the map data as a separate json file (which I can hand tweak) which works every time. The CP was updated a few months ago, but in my experience the json file route works very consistently.
 
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02/01/15 02:57 PM (9 years ago)
Not sure exactly what you mean but will have a bit more of research
 
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02/01/15 02:58 PM (9 years ago)
 
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02/01/15 03:43 PM (9 years ago)
I've just uploaded a new version to the app store. I have a lot of maps with driving directions in my app. Can they not fix the issue in control panel? I presume I'm not the only one with this issue - I guess some clever person can fix it
 
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02/01/15 09:54 PM (9 years ago)
This was fixed for Android. http://www.buzztouch.com/forum/thread.php?tid=CB66A30FF2BB772418D7A40 Not sure why it's broken in iOS. Mark
 
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02/01/15 10:20 PM (9 years ago)
It should work in iOS too... Not sure why it's not. When was the last time you updated the plugin? Cheers! -- Smug
 
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02/02/15 03:21 AM (9 years ago)
Just to say, whilst I do think there is something not quite right in the control panel for editing map entries, I don't know if the control panel is or is not the cause of Chris's problem. As a work-around, I am confident that if you use a json to load the map from that the driving instructions work fine that way, backwards compatible for old or new apps, Android or Apple. My main reason for suggesting this is because you can update an existing released app with this approach, without having to re-release. Cheers, Alan
 
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02/02/15 10:58 AM (9 years ago)
I have downloaded the latest build and updated my app - hopefully this will fix my issue
 
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02/05/15 07:05 PM (9 years ago)
I have a 2012 published IOS app with JSON-based Google maps, with driving directions, and just checked it still works. JSON Sample { "childItems": [ { "itemId": "11111111", "itemType": "BT_mapLocation", "loadScreenWithItemId": "showDirections", "latitude": "33.55577", "longitude": "-81.48357", "title": "Aiken State Park", "subTitle": "South Fork Edisto River" },{ "itemId": "11111112", "itemType": "BT_mapLocation", "loadScreenWithItemId": "showDirections", "latitude": "34.1831", "longitude": "-82.7022", "title": "Allen Creek", "subTitle": "Richard B Russell Lake" }
 
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02/05/15 07:13 PM (9 years ago)
And this is how i create all my JSON files, takes some tinkering, but only runs on windows http://idevdepot.com/csv2json-map-maker-tool/
 

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