Hi. I’ve earlier made an entre here, also about your offline man function. As I’ve written in a comment there part of the issues I experienced then have been resolved. Great, but now, when I’m offline and openmaps downloaded for offline use I only get the route drawn on a blank background. That surprised me out there on my bicycle.
Luckily – being able to remember enough of the context – the orange line gave the little help I needed. And it was Denmark, so little chance of any serious trouble occurring.
However greven how the afsende of any kind of background man differs from what must be seen as a normal expectation, the lack of usefulness seems to be potentially dangerous.
You should warn of this when users attempt to download routes (or suspend the download function until background maps again appear with the routes), and you should e-mail all users about the decreased usefulness of any downloaded routes.
…but given my own past experiences and reading other entries here…have the thought occurred that perhaps you’re being sabotaged? Just a thought.
Suggestions for development:
Restore background maps for the offline use function.
Allow (perhaps as an option) for download of the heat-map section relevant to the route to improve the usefulness of maps/routes (see my earlier entry for explanation).