Offline Maps and Routing in Suunto App

larrybbaker

No app update available for iOS that I see and also Beta program seems to be removed?

Brad_Olwin

@bobbyfw03 Not with this release and I do not know if that is planned.

bobbyfw03

@Brad_Olwin oh, that’s a bummer. I was really excited as I saw it works on android…

Stoke80

@larrybbaker

Patient you must be…

Nelson Diogo

I was able to install the offline map even tough I have a Suunto Run with no maps. Good job Suunto!

Stefano M64

I had problems in downloading the map of the region where I stay (Lazio, Italy) it seems to me the part of that map that is already cached (around my city, Rome) conflicts with the downloading of the map of the whole region. At first is looks that the map has been downloaded, but as soon as I put the smartphone in airplane mode and clear the SA cache, the map disappears even if it is listed among the downloaded maps (both watch and mobile icons). To solve the problem I had to delete the (ghost) downloaded app and download it again.
the offline routing doesn’t work for me, I just get a strait line between point A and B …

Wilson75

@Stefano-M64
For the point 1)
I had the same issue putting airplane mode after downloading the map. To solve this issue I significantly zoom out and zoom in.

Stefano M64

@Wilson75 said in Offline Maps and Routing in Suunto App:

@Stefano-M64
For the point 1)
To solve this issue I significantly zoom out and zoom in.

that didn’t worked for me

Stefano M64

OK! I found the culprit, in order to have the offline routing the user must switch to one of the three offline map styles

Stefano M64

it would be way better if in case of missing data connection the offline routing is automatically selected

pavel.samokha

@Stefano-M64 we decided that it’s better to have explicit control for various reasons. A few of them:

Online and offline data are different, it’s not good to mix neither the style nor navigation with different type of data.
If connection available or not is tricky to detect. Connection can be intermittent, or available but super slow. It’s more reliable to control it explicitly. In my personal experience it’s super frustrating when app switches online/offline unpredictably.
Even while having a data connection I might want to use offline map and routing. For example if I’m abroad in expensive roaming network, while I downloaded offline maps in advance
Offline and online routing engines are different. We tried to align them feature-wise, but they can produce different results. You may prefer one or another.