I was extremely happy with the beta version of Telmap 5 on my Blackberry Bold (9700) until the maps disappeared at the end of June 2011 and I was wondering what was going on. A colleague even emailed Telmap support and got a response to call Vodacom support as they were contractually not allowed to deal with clients directly (#Fail). 
I kept on opening the maps to see if they were back. I read on the Internet somewhere that the Telmap servers were undergoing an upgrade so I was hoping…
Until last week the maps were blank. Funnily enough the maps of Europe were displaying fine – so I then suspected that perhaps Vodacom were blocking the maps for some reason – perhaps to force users to use the Vodafone Sat Nav software :(
Luckily (for Vodacom) that wasn’t the case :)
I was quite a happy user and excited when I eventually found an app that provided turn by turn navigation! – and I certainly didn’t want to be forced to use the SatNav software. It shows weather at my locations and other widgets too.
Last week, I opened the Telmap software and it wouldn’t open saying that the software had expired! I pressed the BB button and there was a link to “upgrade”…
I took a deep breath and thought that if I upgraded then I would lose “My places” – and wondered how I could extract these from the BB backups that I had made.
Another deep breath accompanied by a click on the “Upgrade” link and I started downloading the new software…
A short while and a reboot later the software started up; the maps were visible again, and I didn’t even lose “My Places”! :) :)
Navigation working again too :)
I am now upgraded to version 5.41 build 49
Now if only this software would show traffic info and tell me where the speed traps are…
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