Article Review: ExplorOz Traveller App

Hi Adele. Thanks for you reply. David & I have been emailing back & forth. The issue I had was that when I deleted the maps, the ExplorOz traveller map did not release its memory of the 4GB of downloaded maps. David got me to go into Advanced settings and manually clear it.
I now have the App reduced back to 107MB (without the maps downloaded).
So your App is fine if I am happy to run it using online maps, but no good for offline maps.
As I mentioned, my tablet only has 11.5GB of memory and currently has 4.59GB of free memory. So when I download the offline maps, I run out of memory.
I run OziExplorer on my tablet & have all my maps stored on an external 64GB micro SD card. This works fine & the maps load fast.
Is there anyway to link the ExplorOz maps I already have loaded on my SD card so I don't have to store them twice?
If not possible, when do you expect the App to allow maps to be stored to the external SD card?

Thanks Laurie, good to hear David was able to assist you with this. Unfortunately the app can't "re-use" the EOTopo 200K maps you already have as they need to be in a special format for app use, and I don't have any dates for when we will be able to utilise maps stored on SD cards. One thing I will mention is that the storage space for the 577k pack is only 0.5GB so you could at least download this one for offline use, also, if you are only travelling in, say, the eastern parts of Australia for a period of time, you could just download the 144K East Pack (1.8GB storage required).

This is one of the reasons we broke the 144K into three parts, so that you would be able to choose only the ones you need in order to cut back on download/storage requirements.

Adele, being in a special format is not a problem, but if this is the case, then I can only use the App if the maps can be stored on the external SD card. Storing them on the tablet, uses up far too much space (4GB).
Your idea of only loading the maps you need sounds good in theory, but a pain when travelling outback and moving from one zone to another. It means i have to download the section i want as I travel. This eats right into my monthly download of data, so I don't see this as a solution.
Hopefully David can sort out the storing of maps on the external SD card ASAP, as until it is up and running, I effectively can't use the App. It is frustrating that I have paid for an App which I cannot use effectively. I know it is documented in the FAQ's but I didn't read these before purchase, as I wrongly assumed your App would not be using so much data.

Hi Laurie,

Unfortunately as documented elsewhere we run into performance issues when the maps are stored on External SD - there is software that we can use to fix this, but it is very expensive and we cannot cover the cost at this stage. I'll address this with David again to see if there is any way we can find the funds to do this.