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TrailMaster - Geolives Beta Testing.
Submitted by hilladmin on Fri, 05/12/2008 - 16:48.
Thanks for offering to test the new OSi Geolive - TrailMaster system.
OSI have supplied some notes for this which are too long to email so download here:
http://www.walkersassociation.ie/files/store/TMUpgradeTemp.doc
1 We have included some general headings for test observations below. Feel free to add your own.
2. Please send your observations to websitecontact@walkersassociation.ie
3. If you want to make comments or ask questions to other beta-testers before returning your feedback you can add comments to this article - see below. As of 5th Dec 2008 around 10 people have indicated they will do testing, so there may be other userful comments for you.
Beta testing of Geolives – TrailMaster
State who you are and what experience you have with TrailMaster, if any.
Also what sort of PC you have
(speed, memory, storage and browser type)
Installation of system.
How easy to follow.
Clarity of messages.
Time taken.
Apparent errors
Crashes or go-slow.
Value of help.
Ease of getting data places other than Ireland
Your topics ….
System itself
How easy to understand what to do.
Clarity of messages.
Speed of operation.
Apparent minor to medium seriousness errors or go-slow.
Crashes
Value of help.
Quality of data. (How up to date, any elevation errors etc)
Differences in operation from TrailMaster on DVD
Features you would have liked to see.
Interface to GPS
Your topics ….
General comments
Useability
Comparison with other systems such as Google Earth, NASA Worldwind, Visual
Earth etc.
Your points ….
Geolives-Beta Testing
I've tried to log on to Geolives several times using my Trail Master username and password as per the the Quick Guide but to no avail. Has anybody else tried and been successful.
GeoLives appears to use one's username as taken from your very own e-mail address as supplied at the given time to OSI.
As my e-mail is "jimholmes2007@.........." I have to use the jimholmes2007 as my username!
Hope this works. JH.
Geolives-Beta Testing
Thanks for that. I had the problem of having changed my email address since I purchased Trailmaster, however I've been in touch with OSI and thats sorted now. I'm now at the stage of downloading some maptiles for OSI Trailmaster East, its going to take 12 hours for them to download. Anybody at this stage?
Larry
Geolives-Beta Testing
Successfully downloaded East dataset in blocks of 12 tiles approx. (about 90 tiles in East). Took less than 10 minutes to download each block of 12, using a basic broadband connection. It then takes about 1 minute to install each download.
Ronan
The Mobile Symbian map
The Mobile Symbian map tiles when loaded are about a quarter the size of the PC version. Support has been quite unhelpful, pointing me to an FAQ that doesn't answer the question. These small map tiles are broken behaviour as far as I can see.
PC version works well.