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Problem with missing city names and low detail map in general in Switzerland


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Hi 

I am in the process of getting my PPL in Switzerland. After about 20hrs I did my second navigation flight last friday. I really like to learn to navigate only with the ICAO map at first, but I tried Skydemon the other day and I must say it is really great as a planing tool.

‌‌Here in Switzerland the airspace is really tight and we have lots of TMAs and almost during every flight we need a clearance to fly through them. To ask for the clearance it is really important to know the position of the aircraft, and due to the fact that the airspace is so small, the position of the aircraft has to be precise, my biggest problem with SD is that lots of names of "big" towns are missing, which in fact makes SD not usable for me at the moment.

‌I have read that lots of Swiss pilots have the same issue but I don't want to give up SD as it looks to be a promissing APP. Is there a way to add the names that can be found on the ICAO map? 

T‌hank you for your help.
R‌egards,
M‌ax‌
H‌ere an example of what I mean:

I‌CAO Map:

S‌D view: ( I have highlighted some of the cities for which SD doesnt show a name.)
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H‌ere a more detailed shot of the ICAO Map: 

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Vladimir Vician
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Tim Dawson - 2/3/2017 11:08:03 AM
We do adapt to the zoom level, but the town selection is an algorithm based upon population of the town; we cannot simply copy what another cartographer has done on an existing product. The problem is not simply one of copyright: if ATC want pilots to report at a specific place, that place should really be an officially published VRP or at least mentioned in the AIP.

Having said all that, we do have plans to enable more smaller towns to appear in our maps at high zoom levels, but we are not there yet. Hopefully later this year.

Hope this is on the priority list. Because, i need to use another product to be able to report my position !!!.
‌Anyways SD is great product. And I like it. This is last think... More cities names on zoomed map, or be able to custom set density of cities names or higher density along planed route. Hope you plan to incerase density globaly, as I flying in slovakia.

Edited 5/2/2017 8:49:07 AM by Vladimir Vician
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s1l3ntgl1d3r - 1/30/2017 5:39:22 PM
tnowak - 1/31/2017 8:36:12 AM
s1l3ntgl1d3r - 1/31/2017 9:07:23 AM
Tim Dawson - 2/1/2017 10:01:16 AM
s1l3ntgl1d3r - 2/2/2017 2:46:04 PM
Tim Dawson - 2/3/2017 11:08:03 AM
Vladimir Vician - 5/2/2017 8:49:07 AM
s1l3ntgl1d3r - 2/7/2017 10:16:17 AM
Tim Dawson - 5/2/2017 12:23:15 PM
Chris_LSZO - 5/15/2017 9:43:20 PM
Tim Dawson - 5/16/2017 12:35:29 PM
s1l3ntgl1d3r - 5/17/2017 7:22:14 AM
ckurz7000 - 5/17/2017 2:28:58 PM
Tim Dawson - 5/17/2017 2:30:34 PM

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