On 21/12/2023 10:38, Terry Coles wrote:
I think it is fairly clear that it's the App's job to request the access via the OS, so I'll forward that link to Memory-Map.
The outcome of this problem is worth reporting, I think. It turns out that the Android Location Services permissions are severely limited by the OS because "Google had a crackdown on apps that were secretly recording users". As a result, Memory-Map had to jump through hoops to keep the GPS receiver alive when the screen is blank.
M-M Support had given me instructions as to how to do this, but I was totally confused because of the differences between Android flavours. My tablet runs Android 13, but it is the flavour produced by Blackview and they call it 'Doke OS'. My OnePlus phone also runs Android 13, but it is the flavour is produced by OnePlus and they call it 'OxygenOS'. There are distinct differences between them, and I've no doubt they are different to Google's original version of Android 13.
Once I had sussed out which Notifications and Permissions I needed to allow and the fact that I needed to record the track that I was walking, everything burst into life.
I think I should mention that I am very impressed with Memory-Map at every level. I originally used this in conjunction with my Garmin hand-held GPS some 15-20 years ago. It was then a Windows only tool, but it worked on Linux under wine and maps were loaded from files purchased on DVD. The newest version is very different.
Apart from the fact that M-M Support is very responsive and helpful, the actual tool is excellent. The App is free and comes with some basic UK maps. Getting the OS maps is fairly expensive, being a recurring annual fee, but in one bundle all the UK's 1:25000 and 1:50000 mapping is available. One thing I particularly like is that the latest version of the tool (called Memory-Map for All) works on almost any platform, including Linux, so once I had it on this desktop I was able to search the maps covering the New Forest to locate the starting point of yesterday's ramble, plot a route and upload it to the cloud. On my Tablet, I was then able to load the Route from the cloud, and we were ready to go.
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