Dear Mappers, A new feature has been added into the Map Creator. As from now the buildings are shown in 3D mode. Just activate “buildings” in the menu layer, zoom in and check how it looks like. You can change the view by clicking on the north arrow (bottom right in the map) or just press and hold the right mouse button and turn the … Continue reading Map Creator: Buildings in 3D View
Filling up with fuel is second nature to most of us, aware of our local stations but relying heavily on navigation systems to inform us when we are away from home. Petrol station searches are one of our most searched Points of Interest, and we are currently doing a review of some of our station data to assure our map quality, and avoid frustrations when … Continue reading Project Petrol
We are relaunching our EV campaign, as we realise that having the requirement of collecting pictures for each Map Alert was proving difficult in these already very difficult times… In this relaunch – the requirement to add photos to your edits will not be mandatory to complete the Map Alert. We’ve outlined below how the campaign will run. In this targeted campaign we would like … Continue reading Project EV Relaunch…
Dear Mappers, Let’s talk about new features!🤩 We see on regular base updates and new functionalities not only in the web version of Map Creator but in the Mobile Map Creator as well. So today we can proudly inform you about a Mobile Map Creator update with an enhanced set of navigational attributes, similar to the set we are used from the web Map Creator … Continue reading Link Attributes in Mobile Map Creator
Dear Mappers, Let’s talk about Map Alerts this week 🙂 We would like to introduce and make you aware of how to find these Alerts and how to solve them in Map Creator (MC) and Mobile Map Creator (MMC). What are Map Alerts? Map Alerts (MA) are situations that should be checked because of the type of data sourced by us for the map indicates … Continue reading Map Alerts on Map Creator & Mobile Map Creator
Introducing our new campaign for Electric Vehicle drivers and alike – Project EV. As we know electric vehicles are a hot topic right now and becoming more and more popular as we regularly cover in our HERE blog. In this targeted campaign we would like our community to check and verify EV charging stations across the whole of the UK: Update the EV POI location … Continue reading Project EV Launches
Dear Mappers, This week we would like to let you know that the functionality to report Road Closures, Construction and Events has been updated in Map Creator (MC) and launched in Mobile Map Creator (MMC). 1. Updates in MC To access the menu, select the affected road segment and click on the red button that appears attached right side of the Road attributes … Continue reading Report Road Closures and Construction Events
Dear Mappers, For already almost two months we are been running our WEU “Place it!” Campaign 😊 This is our statistics update before the end of Sprint 1! So far our communities solved almost 30k Map Alerts! Incredible! We are very proud of you all and congratulations!!! 🤩 As a reminder, Sprint 1 ends us 7th of August at 15:00, so there is still … Continue reading WEU “Place it!” Challenge July Stats
Dear Mappers, Recently the process of adding and changing turn restrictions in the Map Creator has been changed and adapted. Formerly the icons for the allowed or restricted turns were appearing when clicking on the street link. Apparently this led to some editing of turn restrictions by accident, means without the real intention to change them. That´s why a new button to … Continue reading Turn Restrictions in Map Creator: Customised editing process
Dear Mappers, The big day has arrived!! 🤩 Finally we are very happy to announce that today our WEU “Place it!” Challenge has started! 😃 This campaign will consist of few sprints and today we launch Sprint 1! What is this campaign about? 😏 As we know, you are passionate about maps, thus we kick off with a special challenge related to Places/POI’s in 5 … Continue reading WEU “Place it!” Challenge has just started!
