DroneBoy1
lvl.1
Flight distance : 43353 ft
United States
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Same problem here. Went out and bought a 128 G SD card but can only download 3 M maps. The suggestions that I've read here and elsewhere are not great:
1. I tried the zoom in/out trick. It took a million of tries over almost an hour to get it into so called "Large Map Mode". Instead of the typical area of about 1 square mile, the map switches to a tiny rectangle highlighting about 1 city block. Then if you're careful, you can slowly zoom out and it will magically start letting you shove miles and miles into the square, like hundreds of miles. The problem I had is I could not save the file at all. Every time I tried, it hung/froze. I spent about 4 hours trying and never once was able to save. Not a solution.
2. There are posts and videos showing how you can just start using the map in the location you want without even downloading it as an Offline Map at all. The way this works is if you happen to have an internet connection, then you'll see your current location in the real time map (map view square at the bottom left during flight). As you pan across the map, it caches the tiles it sees. Those tiles remain in the cache so that if you use it again at a future time, they'll still be there. There are many problems with this "solution". First, if the cache overflows, I have a feeling it will eject the tiles you have and replace them with whatever new ones it sees (not sure about that, but I'd take that bet). Next, it's an awkward way to get maps onto the device. Next, I think the tiles are just literally screenshots of what you see when you're looking at it as it's saving them. I doubt it has tiles for what you would see if you wanted to zoom in or out at that location - I think you just get a screenshot of exactly the zoom level you are at when you pan. Next, if you don't have an internet connection at the time you want to do this, forget it. What you really want is, say, a map of all of Northern California if you plan to be somewhere there where you won't have a hotspot connection, but you don't know exactly where yet. Like, you want to pull over at a cool place on your way to your destination, but that location is unplanned. As long as it's in your Northern California offline map, it'll be there. This "cached tiles" approach won't do that.
3. This is really bad. I am pretty disappointed. DJI, please fix. |
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