Pure Maps (Native map app)

[ric9k]

@rinigus

Seems like routing doesn’t work either with the new keys

No,no, yes, routing does work. I on purpose selected HERE as routing provider.
Used it twice today (and almost got fired cause instead of being late/lost, I broke down dry fuel )
It works and is great because it takes traffic into account. (didn’t advise me highway because of a jam)

[rinigus]

OK, that’s good. Then please check docs regarding traffic tiles and why they could be missing.

[throwaway69]

I raised a ticket with them as there is nothing else to do (you can activate traffic api and vector traffic tiles api in your project, but those endpoints work, just not compatible with puremaps), so far:

I remember that we have a little problem internally and a ticket open. Please allow us some time to update your app_id, I'll inform you once done.

Hopefully they’ll fix it for all apps and no need for per app action on their side, will post here when they provide an update

[ApB]

Just wanted to report that the traffic layer if blank for me also.

[throwaway69]

Looks like they fixed it, traffic tiles now seem to work as expected (did not hear from them, just accidentally opened pure maps)

[ApB]

For me its still the same. Grey screen.

[throwaway69]

When you run it from terminal do you get a bunch of 403’s? Do normal tiles work?

[ApB]

Yes. I get 403s when using the traffic layer. Normal (as in Default layer) work “fine”.

“fine”= seems to be a bit jerky rendering but not a huge issue

[throwaway69]

Might turn out that they do actually fix it per appid, still didn’t hear from them, will ask about it in the ticket

[ric9k]

Yes, 403 too here.
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[throwaway69]

Just got this:

The issue should have been resolved globally.

We have tested and verified with yours and our own API keys.

However, if you see the issue persists on your or your friend’s end, please kindly provide the curl script for replicating the issue.

If you’re still getting 403’s probably a ticket will help

[ApB]

The 403 issue hasn’t resolved for me but lets give it a day or something.

Another thing i noticed is that when i start the app from the terminal i get a blue position marker (not the pointed one) but when i do it from the launcher i don’t. Any idea whats up with that?

[throwaway69]

In case it helps someone to confirm this is same issue, this should work:

curl \
  -X GET \
  -H 'Content-Type: *' \
  --get 'https://1.base.maps.ls.hereapi.com/maptile/2.1/maptile/newest/normal.day/11/525/761/256/png8' \
    --data-urlencode 'apiKey=APIKEY' --output file.png

Replace APIKEY with your own, file.png should end up being an image. This is the traffic tiles one:

curl \
  -X GET \
  -H 'Content-Type: *' \
  --get 'https://1.traffic.maps.ls.hereapi.com/maptile/2.1/traffictile/newest/normal.traffic.day/11/525/761/256/png8' \
--data-urlencode 'apiKey=APIKEY' 

Which results in:

{“error”:“Forbidden”,“error_description”:“These credentials do not authorize acces
s”}

[ric9k]

Oh, great to share this way to test directly!

So yes, what happens is as expected. The traffic curl command returns a

{“error”:“Forbidden”,“error_description”:“These credentials do not authorize access”}

I wrote a ticket here, lowest section, " How can we help you?". Let’s see…

[Werbaer]

Have you also tried to link traffic Service to the starter project as described in the doc?

Developer's Guide - HERE Traffic Vector Tile API - HERE Developer

Create a project
To create a project, follow these steps:

Sign in to the HERE platform using your HERE account.
Open the Projects Manager from the launcher.
Click Create new project.
Enter a name for the project. Project names don’t have to be unique.
Enter a project ID. Project IDs must be unique within an organization and cannot be changed for the lifetime of the organization. Project IDs must be between 4 and 16 characters in length.
Optional: Enter a description.
Click Save.
On the Resources tab, select Services and then click Link a Service.
Search for the HERE Vector Tile - Traffic service and click Link.
Click Done.

I tried this but had no luck so far. At least traffic info is used during navigation at the moment on my side.

[Seven.of.nine]

Are there maps with contour line or level curves available for Pure Maps?

In Pure Maps’ settings/maps there is only ‘OSM Scout (Voreinstellung)’ available and nothing else. Can I add something here?

edit: What is the best speech engine (for german language)?

[rinigus]

Pure Maps doesn’t use HERE vector tiles (yet). Same for vector tiles traffic.

[rinigus]

If you see only OSM Scout in maps that means you are in “Offline” profile. Change that to “Online”

PS: picotts is probably the best we have now for German TTS

[Seven.of.nine]

Yes, if I change to online there comes as options:
HSL (white)
MapTiler (Voreinstellung) (highlighted)
OpenSlopeMap (white)
OpenTopoMap (white)
HERE (disabled, API key missing)
Mapbox (disabled, API key missing)

I tapped on OpenTopoMap, and screen changed immediately to the style I love!!

Can I store OpenTopoMaps onto the phone (or into OSM Scout Server) to make it usable offline?

edit: @rinigus Can I switch OSM Scout Server by some tweak to use OpenTopoMaps instead of OpenStreetMaps and store them for offline usage?

edit: trying HSL shows nothing, white screen, even after several minutes.
trying OpenSlopeMap is the same.

[rinigus]

Can I store OpenTopoMaps onto the phone (or into OSM Scout Server) to make it usable offline?

No. There is some cache, but its not really controlled by Pure Maps.

You could work on style that you would like using OSM Scout Server data. Once in a while I get a request like that, but nobody ended up submitting a style for a merge request.

HSL - data from Finland for Finland only

OpenSlopeMap - I think it was also limited to some location