When running JollaOpas 0.9.5-1 (the version in “About” claims to be v0.9.4) on a Sony Xperia 10III under SFOS 5.0.0.62, the map view typically is only able to retrieve some of the background map tiles, the rest stay gray. Different tiles are missing at different zoom levels, but transportation routes get drawn correctly also over the missing tiles. Trying out the newer Sony Xperia 10V (also with SFOS 5.0.0.62), the same problem also happens. On closer inspection, it seems both phones are missing exactly the same map tiles, so this is something systematic, something I didn’t realize before this!
This still used to work correctly about six months ago, but I don’t know exactly when it stopped working. Does anyone have ideas what could be wrong, or how one should debug this?
Yes, this is an unfortunate issue with the app currently. Some time ago at least on my Xperia 10 III the app stopped to load any map tiles at all.
Somebody had opened an issue in Github repository around 2 weeks ago Now missing maps blocks constantly · Issue #39 · hsarkanen/JollaOpas · GitHub. Today I investigated that the app uses deprecated HERE Map Tile API which should be migrated to use HERE Raster Tile API instead. I didn’t find any information that the Map Tile API would have been ended completely though.
The Map Tile API responds with error Too Many Requests and description Rate limit for this service has been reached. Maybe the HERE API has changed some plan limits or similar and now requires paying for more.
Such a shame, so it is enshittification once again.
I got thinking, there are many other tile-based map applications available on SFOS, including very generalized ones like c:geo and Locus where you can load pretty much any maps (including the Finnish National Survey maps). Could any of these be used as a “tile server” -like API that could be used for this specific purpose?
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