Amazing app but currently crashing
Response from developer
Hi - slightly confused by this: Skyfire is not included in TPE 3D. Are you talking about issues with another app?
Glitchy since latest update
Since the latest update, I’ve found navigation to be even more glitchy than before. Scrolling around the map in a given area, with a single finger, causes unexpected movements. This makes it difficult to use, teach, or recommend to students and colleagues.
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I’ve used this app for planning and teaching night photography since it came out. It helps visualize the scene in terms of alignment of stars and large landscape features, but there are major drawbacks which make this app frustrating to use:
1. No satellite imagery. Regardless of the ‘complexity settings,’ there is no access satellite imagery. This is not only a disappointment, but unrealistic for a navigational/planning app. You can access satellite imagery with TPE, but not TPE-3D. This is a dealbreaker.
2. Navigating is impossible. The app is limited to a ‘zoom-out level’ that does not allow you to scroll to areas far apart. For example, in the original TPE, you can zoom out as far as you want to scroll to different states if need be for quick and easy browsing. This app won’t allow that. The only saving grace, which is by no means a real solution, is to go back to the regular TPE, pin the location, then export to TPE-3D.
3. Your ‘current location’ is not clear. Select ‘my location’ and the app flys to a general vicinity, but there is nothing to represent where you are located. When you pair this with the illegible background map, it’s impossible to know where you are located.
4. Moonlight across the landscape is too dark to notice a difference. Sunrise or sunset light within the app is legible, but I would like to see moonlight represented much brighter. If you’re planning a shot with moonlight and you look at this app outside during the day, it’s impossible to see the change in moonlight across the landscape.
With these current design issues, most of my clients try the app once, then never open it again. This app has a lot of potential, but I still prefer using Google Earth’s landscape desktop feature.
Response from developer
I suspect you're encountering the new minimum height above ground level setting coming into play. This is intended to avoid inadvertently flying so close to the terrain that the map tiles become difficult to read. If you want the previous behavior, go to settings and reduce "Minimum flying height" to its lowest setting. If you believe there are actual glitches in the movement when using a single finger gesture, please write to support@photoephemeris.com with details so I can investigate and try to address them. I've had no other reports of glitches as you describe.
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Response from developer
Bitte sehen Sie sich die Versionshinweise zu Version 1.5 an, um technische Details zu erfahren, warum wir die App über einen längeren Zeitraum nicht aktualisieren konnten. Die Server waren jedoch nie offline.
