Using Tiger Map

Tiger Map currently supports MTK platform, symbian platform, android platform, iPhone platform, windowsphone and bada platforms. For the specific Tiger Map version corresponding to the mobile phone system, you can log in to the Tiger Map official website to check the details.

Tiger Map is free software, but if you need "surrounding inquiry" and "bus inquiry" services, you need to activate GPRS data communication service. Please call local China Mobile 10086, or China Unicom 10010 to consult and confirm your SIM card GPRS service has been activated. If you can use your mobile phone's WAP browser to access the Internet, it means that you have activated the GPRS communication service.

The traffic of each query of Tiger Map is generally less than 5KB. According to the current highest GPRS tariff standard, calculated at 1 yuan per megabyte, the cost of each query is less than 1 cent. We recommend that you choose a suitable GPRS package to further reduce traffic charges. For specific tariffs, please contact local China Mobile 10086 or China Unicom 10010. Start Tiger Map from the mobile phone menu to enter the map browsing interface. The operation method of map browsing is as follows:

Move the map - up, down, left and right direction keys

Zoom in the map - the direction key, center key or * key

Zoom out the map - dial keys or the # key

If your phone supports a touch screen, you can also browse the map with a touch pen:

Move the map - drag the map directly with the touch pen or your finger

< p>Zoom in the map - Double-click the map interface, and the map will be zoomed in with your click point as the center; or click the "+" button on the map interface to zoom in. Android phones, Samsung bada and iPhone all support screen multi-touch operations.

Zoom out the map - Click the "-" button on the map interface to zoom out. Android phones, Samsung bada and iPhone support multi-touch operations to zoom out. Tiger Map provides detailed map data for 400 cities across the country. The switch city function allows you to quickly switch to the central area of ??a certain city. The operation method is as follows:

Symbian version: 1) Menu --> Cities --> All cities, you can select the target city, select The corresponding province and its cities.

2) Enter "Browse City" as needed to select the city you want to browse - "Browse City" will save the 10 cities you browse

Android version: Main menu --> More Multi-->Switch cities, you can select the target city, select the corresponding province and its cities

iPhone version: You can click the current city display button in the upper right corner of the search panel to enter the city list to switch. . Or: Main menu --> More --> Switch cities.

Bada version: Click the current city display button in the upper left corner to enter the city list or: Main menu --> More. -->Switch cities.

Windows phone version: Click the "..." button in the lower right corner of the start page to enter more content, and click "Switch City" to switch cities.

No matter which platform. version, you can move to the city you need by panning the map, zooming out the map to the destination city, and then zooming in to enter the current city map. Tiger Map supports buildings and communities within the city or within a designated area. , catering, hotels, medical and other life service location information and geographical location information search:

Specific search method:

1. There is no search box in the Symbian version interface, you can search through the menu -> , enter the search interface, select the search range - after positioning, Tiger Map will search in the "current map center" by default; enter keywords (Tiger Map supports fuzzy matching, just enter keywords); the search result list can be found in Feedback map to view specific location distribution, you can also view detailed information of search results.

2. In the latest versions of bada, android, windowsphone and iPhone, the discovery function has been embedded in the search function button, a kind of search. The method is to directly enter keywords in the search box to search. After entering the results page, click the "Search surrounding" button to further search for the surrounding results. Another way is to click on a topic box in the search interface and enter the results page to select. Region, price, popularity, distance, etc., narrow down the conditions step by step to find the desired results. Tiger Map supports three positioning methods: GSP positioning, mobile phone signal base station positioning and Wifi positioning:

When the mobile phone is connected to the Internet. , click the blue little man icon (Symbian version) or the "center" button at the bottom of the tiger map interface (the iPhone version's center button is on the right side below, the Android version and bada version's center button is in the middle below, and the windows phone's center button is at the bottom Center position, you need to click to enter the positioning interface and then click Position) to achieve positioning - this method of positioning is the positioning of the mobile phone signal base station. The positioning mechanism of the mobile phone signal base station has a large error, generally between 300 meters and 1600 meters. The error is related to the density of mobile phone signal base stations in the positioning area.

Generally speaking, the error is about 600 meters in the city center and about 1,200 meters in the suburbs.

Outdoors, when the mobile phone supports GPS and is turned on, it can be positioned through GPS. The error is small, usually between 5 meters and 100 meters. Weather conditions and nearby buildings or obstructions will affect the positioning. The accuracy of positioning has a greater impact. Click "Traffic" on the Tiger Map interface to make traffic inquiries. Tiger Map supports "bus" inquiries, "route" inquiries, walking navigation and "self-driving" navigation. Among them, route query can not only query bus routes, but also conduct site queries, and self-driving navigation can also realize cross-city navigation.

For the Windows phone version, just slide the interface left or right to enter the traffic inquiry page.

Menu-->Traffic, you can enter the traffic query interface.

"Transit" query can plan travel routes. Tiger Map selects subway lines by default to provide users with the fastest travel route plan.

The "Line" query can search for known bus routes, including ordinary bus routes and subway lines, and you can also query bus stations.

The "Pedestrian Navigation" query is suitable for short-distance travel, and is also a great help for users who love to commute and travel by bicycle.

"Self-driving" mainly provides route inquiries when driving by yourself or taking a taxi. bada v1.2.0, Android v3.0, IPhonev2.0, Windowsphone v1.0 and higher versions also It can realize self-driving cross-city navigation. Tiger Map will basically update a new version every two months. After the new version is released, the client will have a corresponding reminder. Of course, sometimes it is not appropriate to upgrade the software immediately, so Tiger Map provides the corresponding software upgrade check method.

Symbian version: Menu-->Help-->Software upgrade

Android version: The client automatically prompts that when a new version is available, the "More" button in the bottom navigation bar will There is a small red bubble. Click to enter the more interface. In the first column, it will display "A new version is available. Click to download." After clicking, a prompt box will pop up. Click "OK" on the prompt box to download the new version.

iPhone version: Appstore prompts for update

Bada version: Samsung App Store prompts for update

Windowsphone version: A red bubble will appear on the homepage, click Update

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At the same time, the official website of Tiger Map will issue an upgrade announcement at the same time as the new version is released. For users, they can log in to the official website of Tiger Map to learn about the latest version information. At the same time, the download links provided by Tiger Map are all download links for the latest version. Therefore, when a new version is released, you can log in to the Tiger Map official website to download the latest official version software package and upgrade and install it - you can upgrade to the latest version with a simple software installation operation. , the downloaded map data will not be lost. Tiger map data can be downloaded in three ways:

1. Download while watching, that is, the user directly browses the map, browses to where, and downloads to where. This greatly saves the user's mobile phone data traffic. When the network In poor conditions, you may need to wait for a certain period of time.

2. Download the offline map package. Tiger Map provides offline map package download. Log in to the Tiger Map official website and click on the download page to download the latest Tiger map data package. You can download it by province and city as needed. Generally, the map data package for a province or city is only a few megabytes in size. You can also choose to download the national map data package at once. The national data package of the map is about 200 MB, which is already the smallest in the industry. However, downloading also requires a certain amount of time and corresponding mobile phone storage space. If it is not necessary, it is recommended to select commonly used provinces, cities and national summary maps. The rest You can browse the map by downloading it while watching it when needed.

3. For bada mobile phone, Android mobile phone and iPhone mobile phone users with wifi function, Tiger Map can directly download the map data package on the client. Menu-->More-->Map Download (Download Map), you can select the map you need to download directly. The Windowsphone version of Tiger Map does not support the offline map function.

The base map of Tiger Map uses the latest map data from NavInfo and is updated every six months. Each update will also prompt an update on the mobile Tiger Map client. At the same time, the Tiger Map official website will issue an update announcement. Users can The three methods of "map download" mentioned above update the map.

In addition, when a new subway line or highway line is opened and needs to be added to the map, Tiger Map also has temporary update notifications, which are usually notified on the official website and can be downloaded through three methods: Just update.

More data from Tiger Map is stored in Tiger Map’s server and serves users online, so users do not need to update the corresponding data themselves. Tiger Map’s in-depth life information of first-tier cities is updated every month. The data of second- and third-tier cities are updated at least once a quarter; the bus data of cities such as Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, and Shenzhen are verified and updated monthly, and the bus data of other cities are also verified and updated at least once a quarter, ensuring that the results of each query by users are the latest and most accurate. information.

Historical records can save location searches, traffic inquiries or discovery operations. The Symbian version of Tiger Map can save 10 records, the latest Android and iPhone versions can save 100 historical records, and the Windowsphone version can save 10 traffic and location records. The specific operations are as follows:

Symbian version: Menu-->History

Android version: Menu-->More-->History

iPhone version :Menu-->More-->Recently viewed

Windows phone version: Menu-->More-->History can collect specific results of location search and traffic query.

1. The Symbian version does not support the collection function for the time being;

2. For the Android and iPhone versions, you can click the star button on the details interface to add it to collection, and click it again to cancel the collection; < /p>

The Android and iPhone versions of Tiger Map support this feature. To view the collection results, operate as follows:

Android version: More-->Favorites

iPhone version: More-->Favorites

Windows phone version: Menu-->More-->Favorites