• How often is the map system upgraded? We have new motorways that are showing on the map however the game doesn't send the assets on them, choosing to send them on the old roads next to the motorways taking a lot longer?

    Please help and is there a way we can email someone to get the New Zealand map upgraded?

    N.

    Retired Deputy Chief Fire Officer

    Fire and Emergency NZ

  • The game uses OSM (Open Street Map) - the updates to the map itself aren't controlled by the devs so sometimes OSM will show the street but not yet have valid routing info for it yet or the nodes are net setup correctly in OSM.

    The Updates are controlled by the devs. The map tiles (what we see) are updated very regulary based on latest OSM data.

    However the routing system that controlls how vehicles are moving isn't updated very often as updating that costs a lot of time to calculate to achieve maximum performance when finding the routes.

    => The visual map and the actual routing data are not synced as that is not really reasonably feasible.

    There is no public schedule available on when the routing data has been updated the last time and when it will be updated the next time.

    However: There has been updates to the adress system recently so we can be sure that they're working at the system at all, maybe that's a good sign :)

  • The Updates are controlled by the devs. The map tiles (what we see) are updated very regulary based on latest OSM data.

    However the routing system that controlls how vehicles are moving isn't updated very often as updating that costs a lot of time to calculate to achieve maximum performance when finding the routes.

    => The visual map and the actual routing data are not synced as that is not really reasonably feasible.

    There is no public schedule available on when the routing data has been updated the last time and when it will be updated the next time.

    However: There has been updates to the adress system recently so we can be sure that they're working at the system at all, maybe that's a good sign :)

    My understanding is that while the devs control when they fetch an update from OSM, they have no control over whether the nodes associated with that section of the map are 100% accurate and thus able to be fed into the routing system nor any control over when OSM will update the nodes.

    OSM publishes the updates to visuals of the map much earlier/faster than they do the nodes.

  • How often is the map system upgraded? We have new motorways that are showing on the map however the game doesn't send the assets on them, choosing to send them on the old roads next to the motorways taking a lot longer?

    Please help and is there a way we can email someone to get the New Zealand map upgraded?

    N.

    Transmission gully for example :)

  • My understanding is that while the devs control when they fetch an update from OSM, they have no control over whether the nodes associated with that section of the map are 100% accurate and thus able to be fed into the routing system nor any control over when OSM will update the nodes.

    OSM publishes the updates to visuals of the map much earlier/faster than they do the nodes.

    yeah, that's true. So we're both correct but I've just misunderstood your post ;)

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