Pocket Streets (Problem with Map)

[Guest]

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Hi,

For a long time now, i have had problems with Central London Maps for Pocket
Streets.

I have never experienced any problems with other maps,
but when i try to open the London Map the machine
hangs.
Sounds strange, but it's true.

I have tried reinstalling, and then it might work for one or
two times, but then the hanging starts again.

Also: Can anyone tell me how i can uninstall all files that are used by
Pocket Streets. I have the feeling that some are still not removed after an
uninstall.

Hope for help on this mysterious problem.

Best wishes
Michael
Oslo, Norway

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.pocketpc (More info?)

Hei Michael,
This is a well known bug that Microsoft is working on. The Download maps
from the web site do not work for most of London or if you try to make a
Pocket Streets Map from either MapPoint 2004 Europe or Autoroute, it will
not open. Any other city works fine. Its a weird bug that looks like it
might be coming from Navtech (map database supplier).
Most people cannot get the map to open at all on a PDA, mine just
display the hourglass forever and I have to kill the program to get out of
it.


--
Tedd Riggs
PDA Square Content Developer
www.pdasquare.com
Redmond, WA



"Michael Riedl" <mr.sas@online.no> wrote in message
news:OQmkzaVJEHA.3120@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> For a long time now, i have had problems with Central London Maps for
> Pocket
> Streets.
>
> I have never experienced any problems with other maps,
> but when i try to open the London Map the machine
> hangs.
> Sounds strange, but it's true.
>
> I have tried reinstalling, and then it might work for one or
> two times, but then the hanging starts again.
>
> Also: Can anyone tell me how i can uninstall all files that are used by
> Pocket Streets. I have the feeling that some are still not removed after
> an
> uninstall.
>
> Hope for help on this mysterious problem.
>
> Best wishes
> Michael
> Oslo, Norway
>
>

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.pocketpc (More info?)

Thank you.

This has bothered me for at least half a year.
.... I always thought it had to be a problem on my PPC.

Best wishes

Michael


"Tedd Riggs" <T_Riggs@msn.cöm> skrev i melding
news:%23tMtnmVJEHA.2660@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> Hei Michael,
> This is a well known bug that Microsoft is working on. The Download
maps
> from the web site do not work for most of London or if you try to make a
> Pocket Streets Map from either MapPoint 2004 Europe or Autoroute, it will
> not open. Any other city works fine. Its a weird bug that looks like it
> might be coming from Navtech (map database supplier).
> Most people cannot get the map to open at all on a PDA, mine just
> display the hourglass forever and I have to kill the program to get out of
> it.
>
>
> --
> Tedd Riggs
> PDA Square Content Developer
> www.pdasquare.com
> Redmond, WA
>
>
>
> "Michael Riedl" <mr.sas@online.no> wrote in message
> news:OQmkzaVJEHA.3120@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > Hi,
> >
> > For a long time now, i have had problems with Central London Maps for
> > Pocket
> > Streets.
> >
> > I have never experienced any problems with other maps,
> > but when i try to open the London Map the machine
> > hangs.
> > Sounds strange, but it's true.
> >
> > I have tried reinstalling, and then it might work for one or
> > two times, but then the hanging starts again.
> >
> > Also: Can anyone tell me how i can uninstall all files that are used by
> > Pocket Streets. I have the feeling that some are still not removed after
> > an
> > uninstall.
> >
> > Hope for help on this mysterious problem.
> >
> > Best wishes
> > Michael
> > Oslo, Norway
> >
> >
>

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.pocketpc (More info?)

I haven't experienced the problem you describe,
livng in the Western US, but have used PS for quite
a while, and found it to work well...

And I wonder-

could the problem you both describe be due
to the fact that 0 deg. Longitude runs through the
area the map was created for?

As a small-time application writer, some of the
toughest bugs I've had to track down in my own code
were due to not explicitly assgning a value to variables,
and having unexpected results when the system assigned
them a value of 0.

I wonder, if you are able to create your own maps of London
for PS, if you create one just east of lon. 0 and one just west of
it, if they'll work?

"Michael Riedl" <mr.sas@online.no> wro=ote in message
news:e#F5nyVJEHA.2456@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
> Thank you.
>
> This has bothered me for at least half a year.
> ... I always thought it had to be a problem on my PPC.
>
> Best wishes
>
> Michael
>
>
> "Tedd Riggs" <T_Riggs@msn.cöm> skrev i melding
> news:%23tMtnmVJEHA.2660@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> > Hei Michael,
> > This is a well known bug that Microsoft is working on. The Download
> maps
> > from the web site do not work for most of London or if you try to make a
> > Pocket Streets Map from either MapPoint 2004 Europe or Autoroute, it
will
> > not open. Any other city works fine. Its a weird bug that looks like it
> > might be coming from Navtech (map database supplier).
> > Most people cannot get the map to open at all on a PDA, mine just
> > display the hourglass forever and I have to kill the program to get out
of
> > it.
> >
> >
> > --
> > Tedd Riggs
> > PDA Square Content Developer
> > www.pdasquare.com
> > Redmond, WA
> >
> >
> >
> > "Michael Riedl" <mr.sas@online.no> wrote in message
> > news:OQmkzaVJEHA.3120@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > For a long time now, i have had problems with Central London Maps for
> > > Pocket
> > > Streets.
> > >
> > > I have never experienced any problems with other maps,
> > > but when i try to open the London Map the machine
> > > hangs.
> > > Sounds strange, but it's true.
> > >
> > > I have tried reinstalling, and then it might work for one or
> > > two times, but then the hanging starts again.
> > >
> > > Also: Can anyone tell me how i can uninstall all files that are used
by
> > > Pocket Streets. I have the feeling that some are still not removed
after
> > > an
> > > uninstall.
> > >
> > > Hope for help on this mysterious problem.
> > >
> > > Best wishes
> > > Michael
> > > Oslo, Norway
> > >
> > >
> >
>
>

 

[Sam]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.pocketpc (More info?)

I have found that microsoft streets isn't very good as a map.

The roads appear as just lines and it doesn't give the name of each road at
a reasonable zoom level.
It will give the street name i am looking for but so far zoomed in that i
can't work out a route.

I would describe it as naff.

A road map I tried under some other software name was okay however.

Michael Riedl wrote in message ...
>Hi,
>
>For a long time now, i have had problems with Central London Maps for
Pocket
>Streets.
>
>I have never experienced any problems with other maps,
>but when i try to open the London Map the machine
>hangs.
>Sounds strange, but it's true.
>
>I have tried reinstalling, and then it might work for one or
>two times, but then the hanging starts again.
>
>Also: Can anyone tell me how i can uninstall all files that are used by
>Pocket Streets. I have the feeling that some are still not removed after an
>uninstall.
>
>Hope for help on this mysterious problem.
>
>Best wishes
>Michael
>Oslo, Norway
>
>

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.pocketpc (More info?)

Ah me too! Thought it was only my ipaq too.

However you can use Autoroute to select the area you want & export to the
PDA....that way you can chose exactly the portion you want.....and more
usefully, it works fine!

Funny thing is that the downloadable map worked fine for about a year & then
suddenly stopped.....I must have re-downloaded it or something and it is a
new map.....don't know , but I had to make my own a s a way round. The
others I've tried are OK though.
Julie


"Michael Riedl" <mr.sas@online.no> wrote in message
news:OQmkzaVJEHA.3120@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Hi,
>
> For a long time now, i have had problems with Central London Maps for
Pocket
> Streets.
>
> I have never experienced any problems with other maps,
> but when i try to open the London Map the machine
> hangs.
> Sounds strange, but it's true.
>
> I have tried reinstalling, and then it might work for one or
> two times, but then the hanging starts again.
>
> Also: Can anyone tell me how i can uninstall all files that are used by
> Pocket Streets. I have the feeling that some are still not removed after
an
> uninstall.
>
> Hope for help on this mysterious problem.
>
> Best wishes
> Michael
> Oslo, Norway
>
>

 

[Guest]

Archived from groups: microsoft.public.pocketpc (More info?)

Vance,
Out of the 50 or so responses I have seen from Users and Microsoft,
yours is the only one that mentions the 0 deg. Longitude idea. I use
MapPoint 2004 both North America and the Europe Version and the "little
brothers" Autoroute and Streets & Trips.
Interesting as the maps I make of central London will not open on a PDA,
but as long as the longitude is at least .5 degree's off of Zero, they open
just fine. First solution to this bug that I have seen !
Thanks alot for that one.

--
Tedd Riggs
PDA Square Content Developer
www.pdasquare.com
Redmond, WA



"Vance Green" <vancegrn@nowhere.net> wrote in message
news:eOvVSlXJEHA.952@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>I haven't experienced the problem you describe,
> livng in the Western US, but have used PS for quite
> a while, and found it to work well...
>
> And I wonder-
>
> could the problem you both describe be due
> to the fact that 0 deg. Longitude runs through the
> area the map was created for?
>
> As a small-time application writer, some of the
> toughest bugs I've had to track down in my own code
> were due to not explicitly assgning a value to variables,
> and having unexpected results when the system assigned
> them a value of 0.
>
> I wonder, if you are able to create your own maps of London
> for PS, if you create one just east of lon. 0 and one just west of
> it, if they'll work?
>
> "Michael Riedl" <mr.sas@online.no> wro=ote in message
> news:e#F5nyVJEHA.2456@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>> Thank you.
>>
>> This has bothered me for at least half a year.
>> ... I always thought it had to be a problem on my PPC.
>>
>> Best wishes
>>
>> Michael
>>
>>
>> "Tedd Riggs" <T_Riggs@msn.cöm> skrev i melding
>> news:%23tMtnmVJEHA.2660@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> > Hei Michael,
>> > This is a well known bug that Microsoft is working on. The Download
>> maps
>> > from the web site do not work for most of London or if you try to make
>> > a
>> > Pocket Streets Map from either MapPoint 2004 Europe or Autoroute, it
> will
>> > not open. Any other city works fine. Its a weird bug that looks like it
>> > might be coming from Navtech (map database supplier).
>> > Most people cannot get the map to open at all on a PDA, mine just
>> > display the hourglass forever and I have to kill the program to get out
> of
>> > it.
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Tedd Riggs
>> > PDA Square Content Developer
>> > www.pdasquare.com
>> > Redmond, WA
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > "Michael Riedl" <mr.sas@online.no> wrote in message
>> > news:OQmkzaVJEHA.3120@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
>> > > Hi,
>> > >
>> > > For a long time now, i have had problems with Central London Maps for
>> > > Pocket
>> > > Streets.
>> > >
>> > > I have never experienced any problems with other maps,
>> > > but when i try to open the London Map the machine
>> > > hangs.
>> > > Sounds strange, but it's true.
>> > >
>> > > I have tried reinstalling, and then it might work for one or
>> > > two times, but then the hanging starts again.
>> > >
>> > > Also: Can anyone tell me how i can uninstall all files that are used
> by
>> > > Pocket Streets. I have the feeling that some are still not removed
> after
>> > > an
>> > > uninstall.
>> > >
>> > > Hope for help on this mysterious problem.
>> > >
>> > > Best wishes
>> > > Michael
>> > > Oslo, Norway
>> > >
>> > >
>> >
>>
>>
>
>