[Android] Unable to place turf on highways.

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Jenots May 18, 2014

Hello. I am trying to hop to other cities and I keep facing a problem - the highway inbetween cities isn't recognised. I just get the 'invalid loc... place next to street\highway...' error.
I can post SS's on Palringo if that helps... This really pisses me off, because that means I need to strugle to get anywhere out of town and I have no guarantee that at some point I wont the same error and will get bogged down.

Any help is appreciated.
⚸яѻɢɛʀ✞тɦǟȶ⛧ May 18, 2014

Just curious, are there other, smaller roads that are useable for your trip? Sometimes I have had better luck that with highways. May be a less direct route, but get the job done. Over time, it's gotten a lot better for the iPhone users, and with the addition of a second geocoder, many more areas are accessible. You're in a fairly unpopulated area. Not sure if bringing this up to support will help, but it can't hurt. I would expect the android location finding to improve over time. Hang in there.
⚸яѻɢɛʀ✞тɦǟȶ⛧ May 18, 2014

Heading to the Moscow airport, if you can get there, will allow access to the better supported locales.
HarryKoch May 23, 2014

Jenots wrote:
Hello. I am trying to hop to other cities and I keep facing a problem - the highway inbetween cities isn't recognised. I just get the 'invalid loc... place next to street\highway...' error.
I can post SS's on Palringo if that helps... This really pisses me off, because that means I need to strugle to get anywhere out of town and I have no guarantee that at some point I wont the same error and will get bogged down.

Any help is appreciated.

I had the same problem hopping from Land O' Lakes, FL to Odessa, FL. In some parts of the hop I was able to hop through preserves and lakes with no issue. In other areas the Android wouldn't register certain roads and highways (despite placing turf directly on top of them). I found that fully closing and reopening the app sometimes helps but other times it won't register highways and roads at all...
〓ＣＨＵＣＫＹ〓 May 25, 2014

Even in IOS, with 2 geocoder options, there are plenty of "roads" that don't register, and some interesting places like the middle of a lake that do. Are there other turf already planted in the near vicinity of where you are getting the error message? If not, it just might be one of those places that doesn't work for anyone.
Jenots May 26, 2014

i see other turfs on the road from iOS players....
HarryKoch May 27, 2014

Chucky Pancamo wrote:
Are there other turf already planted in the near vicinity of where you are getting the error message? If not, it just might be one of those places that doesn't work for anyone.

I tried to plant turf in a seemingly inactive turfpile while at a distant mall. Several roads and an interstate were located at least a mile away. I go to plant but I get the 'too far from a road/highway' message. I fully closed and reopened the app to no luck. I restarted my phone and still no luck. I told my friend about what had happened. Sure enough, he and his IPhone were able to plant turf in the exact same area that I attempted to sell in.
HarryKoch May 27, 2014

*plant in

I'm not sure how my auto correct got "sell" out of that...
〓ＣＨＵＣＫＹ〓 May 29, 2014

HarryKoch wrote:
*plant in

I'm not sure how my auto correct got "sell" out of that...

Well, seems like Android autocorrect is just as bad as Apple's, so you got that going for you.