Dear Mappers, First of all, Happy New Year to you! 🎉 As first news of this year, we would like to let you know that the “Road Protection” functionality for main roads was removed from Map Creator at the end of December 2018. Therefore, you won’t see the “Protected Roads” button displayed anymore on the task bar at the bottom right. This means that users are … Continue reading Protected Roads
Would you like to be a Map Creator Beta tester? Then we want to hear from you! Dear Map Creator Users, Map Creator is constantly evolving as our developers are permanently working to make Map Creator even more attractive, user-friendly and efficient for our users. So, what could be more natural than to ask you, the Map Creator user, to give us feedback on … Continue reading User Testing Pool
Dear Mappers, Did you know that HERE Community Team cooperates with various universities and schools by proposing a Community Educational Program? What is a Community Educational Program? Map Creator is a user-friendly tool, allowing various types of users to add, remove or modify roads, house numbers or places and their attributes. However, Map Creator can be also used as a learning tool … Continue reading Community Educational Program: Collaboration with Universities and High Schools in Italy
Dear Mappers, Here are some good tips that will help you for coding geometry with Map Creator: The moderation process for many user edits can be accelerated if special attention is made while editing geometry. The background to this is that many edits are not completed or edited in a wrong way lead to error validations. Our moderators have to check and correct those edits … Continue reading Tips & Tricks: Disconnected Geometry
Temporary vs Permanent Speed Limits From time to time, we receive information, that Map Creator users have coded temporary speed limits as permanent speed limits and unfortunately this is transferred into our map. As a general rule, only permanent speed limits should be coded in the Map Creator. The Speed Limit Coding Training Video provides a good overview on how to do it. Unfortunately, in … Continue reading Tips & Tricks: Speed Limits and Legal Dividers in Map Creator
Dear Mappers, Already noticed the new feature to add Safety Cameras in Map Creator? We give you a detailed view of the new menus, such as viewing, adding, changing or deleting safety cameras. To view the safety cameras activate the menu in the upper bar in the right corner. A question will be asked if you want to enable this feature, which should … Continue reading Speed Cameras: A New Feature in Map Creator
Hello Jean-Baptiste, could you introduce you to the community in a few words? I’m 29 years old and I’m a works supervisor in the building trade and a Map Creator Map Master. I ’m currently living near to the city of Lyon in France. When did you start to be active and contribute to Map Creator? I’ve been active and contributed for … Continue reading User Story: Jean-Baptiste B. from France
