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Am I doing something numb or has it vanished?
In Windows? Still works for me.
Hmmm... I can't see it. Just get these options.
Windows here. Gone for me...
🙁
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo - used it for my (free) route planning on the gravel bike.
What browser are you using? I'm on Chrome / Windows 11.
I don't have "3D" as an option either.
Noticed yesterday morning it wasn’t there, then on the evening and right now the button is back.
Odd. I had it yesterday, but no today.
Maybe a glitch at OS Towers as the OS App isn't showing me OS Maps either.
Maybe a glitch at OS Towers as the OS App isn't showing me OS Maps either.
OS App is working OK for me too.
You now need to be signed into the browser you are using for the OS layer to appear. Just tested and it appears to be the same with both Chrome (signed in with my google account) and Edge (signed in with my MS account). Sign out of either and the OS goes. But oddly it's still there in an incognito window.
Odd.
Never needed to be signed in before but just tried via Edge and still no OS overlay.
It still works for me.
Totally uncool bog standard Windows 10 with default browser.
I found it came back if i used edge?
Bizarre, isn't it? Almost like small differences in the client end are affecting the service delivered by the central servers.
doesn’t work on chrome on the ipad… but i do notice a little word next to maps… maybe they’re in beta testing to see if they can stop anyone bothering to use it!
If you hit the thumb down, you can tell them!
It didn't work for me earlier, signed in via work on edge.
I just shifted to use a layer on the nls georeferenced maps.
It didn't work for me earlier, signed in via work on edge.
I just shifted to use a layer on the nls georeferenced maps.
iOS using Chrome = No but using Safari= yes
Not signed into anything on either browser
Windows 11 pc - works on Edge (not signed in) and works in Chrome, signed in.
It's only available in the UK. To determine if you are in the UK, the internet generally uses a geolocation database to match your IP address to a location. This is frequently inaccurate and occasionally goes quite wrong, so you can end up with stuff like this. I think it has happened before.
That said, if go to whatismyip it thinks I'm in London which is about 150 miles out but still in the UK - and Bing maps jumps to my correct location when I go there. But no OS maps.
It's only available in the UK
Ah yes, that would make sense. OS are very protective of the UK only use. DofE participants get a free OS account as part of their membership. When they sign up (or anyone signs up I guess) if their system thinks you are registering from overseas by the IP address it detects it permanently blocks that email address and it takes applying to them, waiting 5 working days and a human their end to unblock it. Hilarious fun when the school's new filtering system was based in the US was generating a non UK IP address and every single kid who tried to register was blocked. 120 applications for unblocking later (yes, you had to make the applications individually) I was struggling to work out if I hated our IT guys or the OS tech bods more.
As different folks are having different experiences, perhaps it's the same thing that's causing the STW login problems for some? 😉