Cloud Sync

The cloud sync feature is used to maintain identical overlay data (marks, routes and tracks) on a set of devices using the same Memory-Map account. For example, if you have a phone and a tablet, you can create a route on the tablet, then take your phone outdoors to follow the route. While you are out, you record a tracklog and mark some interesting locations. Once back home your field data is synced on to the tablet.

Another common use is if you get a new phone, or if you need to reset/reload your phone, you can use the sync to provision your new device with all the data you had on the old one.

To use it, any time you have an internet connection, tap Menu, Overlays, then press Menu again, and Cloud Sync. You are prompted to sign in to your Memory-Map account, if you are not already signed in. This copies any data that has changed between your device and Memory-Map's cloud storage.

On the PC, this feature is implemented differently. Because many people use PC overlays for archiving a large amount of data, so it was decided to give you more control by explicitly sending and receiving data from your "Cloud". There is also a web interface to access your data from any browser: Sign into your account on this page (https://w2.memory-map.com/cgi-bin/syncweb.cgi) to access your cloud-synced data on the web.

Purchase options

There are three levels of usage for the Sync feature, based on frequency of use and the amount of data synced.

Free: up to 1MB of data synced up to 10 times a month. This will include most casual users.
In-app purchase: In-app purchases only work on iOS devices, so you could use this for syncing between your iphone and ipad, but if you want to sync with other devices you will need to purchase it again through your Memory-Map account. The sync license purchased via your memory-map account works on any device, including iPhone/iPad. (click here)
Standard Sync: up to 1MB of data, synced on 5 devices up to 1000 times per month. This is intended to cover the majority of recreational users.
Professional Sync: over 1MB of data synced on up to 10 devices, 10000 per month. This is for power-users.

There is a free evaluation period for each of the paid levels, so you can figure out if the feature is going to be useful. Note, if you have over 1MB of data on your device (ie many thousands of marks or dozens of long complex track logs) then the performance of the app is quite severely degraded. If you don't have a good reason to need that much data, you can archive it to a GPX file, then delete it. The app will work much better without it!

For price information, and to purchase, click here.

Sharing data with others

Note that the account used for syncing is the same as the license management account. If you want to share overlay data with other people, the way to do that is using GPX files. If you give other people your account details, they may unintentionally use your license resources, and will make it hard for you to manage your licenses. Do not use the sync feature as a way of sharing your overlay data with other people.

Data changed on more than one device

If your have a synced overlay that is subsequently changed on two different devices, only the most recently changed version is used. This can cause changes on the other device to be overwritten. If your data is valuable and they are being used other devices at the same time, save it as GPX before syncing.

Privacy and security

While the data is transmitted using SSL encryption and securely stored, Memory-Map makes no guarantee about the security of the data. Do not rely on this feature to store valuable data: make a backup using GPX. The data synced can include your location history (while the track logging feature is enabled). This data could be synced to family members if they are using the same license management account. If that's a problem, or if you have any other privacy concerns, don't use the sync feature!