Magic Earth sat nav app (Android and iOS)

barryd said:
So I moved on to see if I could export google maps routes to Magic earth. Two things I learned. Magic Earth has a browser based map like google maps and you can export GPX routes from there but its not great. It plots each point as a lat and long rather than a place name so you quickly get lost when rearranging them. You can export the GPX and then import it into your magic earth app but it never loaded the whole route for me. So I then used a third party app to export a google maps route to GPX and successfully imported the whole route into Magic Earth. However it just comes up as what I think is a cycle route or a dotted line at least and there is no start button. Just Demo.
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This I think answers your problem:

To start a Navigation, the departure point must be your current position ("My Position"). If you have some other location as departure, only Demo is available.
 
barryd said:
Just downloaded the wildcamp POI from here as a test. That all worked but I dont have the green W PNG file. They just appear as grey markers with the name on. Will see if I can find the PNG
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This is an alternative way to add POIs. Might be worth a try...

Make sure the KML file and the PNG file you wish to use as icon have the same name (e.g. asdf.kml and asdf.png). Place these two files in a zip file named "ImportKML.zip" (exactly this name), then import it via mail attachment.
 
Canalsman said:
This I think answers your problem:

To start a Navigation, the departure point must be your current position ("My Position"). If you have some other location as departure, only Demo is available.
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Sorry missed these replies. Will take a look at that. Trouble is my location in Google maps always shows up as London. 🤣
 
Canalsman said:
This is an alternative way to add POIs. Might be worth a try...

Make sure the KML file and the PNG file you wish to use as icon have the same name (e.g. asdf.kml and asdf.png). Place these two files in a zip file named "ImportKML.zip" (exactly this name), then import it via mail attachment.
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Both the same name but I added them as files not a zip. Emailed magic earth about it but no reply as yet
 
3 sat naves which work on 4g ph is petal map & magic earth, if you have a old 3g ph which is doing nout as its being switched of you can use magic earth voice nav & google maps, im not sure these will work after xmas when 3g is shut down but im for using my old ph for it now,see how it goes, no sim card required.
 
I just got an answer about how to display the W image on the POI downloads.

Basically you make sure the icon / bmp is on your phone somewhere and get to the POI on magic earth, hold and press it and set image, browse to it and thats it. Instructions below without the screen shots

to import a kml file and display the POIs in Magic Earth using your custom PNG image,
please follow these steps:
1) click on the Search bar
2) click on the 3 dots in the upper right
3) click on the + symbol in the upper right



KML files, as well as images and route XLM files already present on the phone will appear.

Click on the KML file you want to load and the POIs (points of interest) from that KML are loaded - click OK.

the KML file appears in the Points of Interest list - in this example it is named KML_Samples -
tap and hold on it for a few seconds, then click Set image in the popup context menu, as shown.
In the next screen, click on the PNG image you want to use for the POIs - the size
of the image does not matter because it is resized to the size of an icon. The image is set!



When clicking on the KML file in the menu, KML_Samples in this case (the .kml extension is not shown in the menu),
the list of loaded POIs is displayed, shown below after the PNG image was set.
Finally, clicking a POI in the list causes it to be displayed on the map, using the custom PNG image that was set:
 
barryd said:
I just got an answer about how to display the W image on the POI downloads.

Basically you make sure the icon / bmp is on your phone somewhere and get to the POI on magic earth, hold and press it and set image, browse to it and thats it. Instructions below without the screen shots

to import a kml file and display the POIs in Magic Earth using your custom PNG image,
please follow these steps:
1) click on the Search bar
2) click on the 3 dots in the upper right
3) click on the + symbol in the upper right



KML files, as well as images and route XLM files already present on the phone will appear.

Click on the KML file you want to load and the POIs (points of interest) from that KML are loaded - click OK.

the KML file appears in the Points of Interest list - in this example it is named KML_Samples -
tap and hold on it for a few seconds, then click Set image in the popup context menu, as shown.
In the next screen, click on the PNG image you want to use for the POIs - the size
of the image does not matter because it is resized to the size of an icon. The image is set!



When clicking on the KML file in the menu, KML_Samples in this case (the .kml extension is not shown in the menu),
the list of loaded POIs is displayed, shown below after the PNG image was set.
Finally, clicking a POI in the list causes it to be displayed on the map, using the custom PNG image that was set:
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I pressed like but I’ve no idea what you’re talking about :unsure:
 
guerdeval said:
I pressed like but I’ve no idea what you’re talking about :unsure:
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LOL! Up thread we were talking about loading the Wild camping POI into Magic earth which I did successfully (ish) but the green W didnt appear so I emailed Magic Earth support and after some considerable time they finally came back with an answer. This is good news as it means you can pretty much load any POI you have into Magic earth and effectively give them any kind of icon you like so you know what they are. You can also easily turn them off and on so your map doesn't get cluttered, bit like you can on the TomTom. The W is a bit big really. Needs to be smaller and transparent. I can do that I think.

Screen shot from my phone now.

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Thats better. It doesn't have to be a BMP file. I created a transparent W using PNG format and its perfect now. You can see through the W. Ill see if I can attach the W if anyone wants it. Assume this is ok with Phil. If not then please remove.

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When you tap on one it zooms quite nicely to street level. Can you do this in Google maps? If not then Magic Earth wins. This really is going to be useful for Europe next year.

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Oh this is gonna be fun over winter plotting next years trip.

Added all the Aires from CC Infos now. Well the ones with overnight and services so far of which there are over 8000 for Europe. You can basically dump the KML files in any folder on your phone and just add the POI from the + sign in POI on Magic Earth. They dont have to go in a specific folder and the image to go with them can be a different name. you just press on the newly added POI for a few seconds from the list of POI and then select "Set image". Dead easy. Once you know how. Getting the POI into KML Format however can be a bit trickier but its all coming back to me now! :D If you want any doing, let me know. I could do with all the CL And CS sites if anyone can get hold of them.

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barryd said:
Oh this is gonna be fun over winter plotting next years trip.

Added all the Aires from CC Infos now. Well the ones with overnight and services so far of which there are over 8000 for Europe. You can basically dump the KML files in any folder on your phone and just add the POI from the + sign in POI on Magic Earth. They dont have to go in a specific folder and the image to go with them can be a different name. you just press on the newly added POI for a few seconds from the list of POI and then select "Set image". Dead easy. Once you know how. Getting the POI into KML Format however can be a bit trickier but its all coming back to me now! :D If you want any doing, let me know. I could do with all the CL And CS sites if anyone can get hold of them.

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Blimey Barry, that would be brilliant having all of the CL/CS's plumbed in.

I shall watch developments with interest.
 
Robmac said:
Blimey Barry, that would be brilliant having all of the CL/CS's plumbed in.

I shall watch developments with interest.
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I think they are available on Search for Sites and possibly both clubs. Im not a paid up member of either SFS or the clubs but maybe someone is. I had a quick look the other night but ill find them somewhere unless someone on here has them or can get them.
 
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