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<!-- **** top alert box **** -->
<div class="alert alert-block alert-info">
IITC now has a
<a href="https://plus.google.com/105383756361375410867"><img src="//ssl.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Google+" style="border:0;width:16px;height:16px;"/> Google+ page</a>.
Follow this to keep up to date on the latest news.
Follow the
<b><a href="https://plus.google.com/105383756361375410867">IITC <img src="//ssl.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Google+" style="border:0;width:16px;height:16px;"/> page</a></b>
for release announcements.
Join the
<b><a href="https://plus.google.com/communities/105647403088015055797">IITC <img src="//ssl.gstatic.com/images/icons/gplus-16.png" alt="Google+" style="border:0;width:16px;height:16px;"/> Community</a></b>
- a place to ask for help and discuss with other users.
</div>
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<ul>
<li>
<h4 id="not-activated">I get a message saying my account isn't activated</h4>
<p>
Occasionally the Niantic servers give this misleading message - what it should usually say is
"Failed to check account status - please reload to try again". IITC will, in most cases, retry for you.
</p>
<p>
Sometimes this is caused by server issues, and no ammount of reloading will fix it. Come back later and try again.
</p>
<p>
However, another reason for this message is your account being blocked/suspended by Niantic. There
are no (known) cases of this happening due to IITC use, but any use of bots, unofficial (e.g. iPhone) clients,
or other ingress mods could lead to this. In this case, the scanner app will also fail to work correctly.
</p>
</li>
<li>
<h4 id="broken">No portals are displayed on the map/some portals are missing</h4>
Two common reasons.
<ol>
<li>You have some portal layers turned off in the layer chooser</li>
<li>Some requests failed - check the status at the bottom-right of the screen</li>
</ol>
In the second case, wait 30 seconds for the next refresh, or drag the map a very small amount to perform an immediate
refresh.
</li>
<li>
<h4 id="curved-lines">Long lines are drawn curved on the map</h4>
This is a good thing. IITC has been updated (as of 0.13.0) to draw long links/fields correctly. If you want to understand
why they are drawn curved, see
<a href="http://gis.stackexchange.com/questions/6822/why-is-the-straight-line-path-across-continent-so-curved">here</a>.
</li>
<li>
<h4 id="uninstall">How do I uninstall/disable IITC or plugins?</h4>
This depends on your browser.
<ul>
<li><b>Chrome + Tampermonkey</b>: Click on the Tampermonkey icon (a dark square with two circles at the bottom) and choose 'Dashboard'.</li>
<li><b>Firefox + Greasemonkey</b>: Click on the arrow next to the monkey icon, and choose 'Manage user scripts'.</li>
<li>For Opera, remove the scripts from the userscript folder. For Chrome without Tampermonkey, go to the Tools-&gt;Extensions menu.</li>
</ul>
From here you can remove/disable individual plugins or IITC itself.
</li>
<li>
<h4 id="debug-data-tiles">What do the colours mean in 'DEBUG Data Tiles'</h4>
The data from the Niantic server is download in square tiles. Sometimes requests fail. The colours show this status
visually. The outline colour shows the state of the request:
<ul>
<li>Blue: data requested, waiting for response</li>
<li>Green: successful request/cached data fresh</li>
<li>Red: Dark red for a complete request failure, lighter red for an individual tile timeout</li>
</ul>
The colour within the square shows the state of the data:
<ul>
<li>Grey: data requested, waiting for response</li>
<li>Green: successful request</li>
<li>Yellow: data from cache</li>
<li>Red: request failed - no data from cache</li>
</ul>
The status message at the bottom-right of the screen gives a summary.
<ul>
<li>If all requests were succesful/fresh from cache (i.e. all green borders) the status is 'Up to Date'.</li>
<li>If some requests failed, but cached data was available (i.e. some red border/yellow fill) the status is 'Out of date'.</li>
<li>If some requests failed, but no cached data was available (i.e. some red border/red fill) the status is 'Error'.</li>
</ul>
The tooltip for this message gives the counts of successful/cached/stale/failed map data tiles.
</li>
<li>
<h4 id="no-penalty">Will Google/Niantic penalise me for using IITC?</h4>
There have been rumours that Niantic/Google have been asking people to stop using IITC, and penalising users
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</li>
<li>
<h4 id="broken">No portals are displayed on the map!</h4>
Please update to the latest IITC to fix the map. If you use Chrome+Tampermonkey, or Firefox+Greasemonkey,
just triggering a manual update should do this. Alternatively, re-download and install from the
<a href="?page=desktop">download page</a>.
</li>
<li>
<h4 id="bluemap">What happened to the nice blue map?</h4>
Unfortunately this is no longer available, as IITC far exceeds the free quota offered by Cloudmade, the map tile provider.
You can use the layer selection menu to choose "Default Ingress Map", but this doesn't work as smoothly as we'd like.
Options to allow users to register their own free accounts for this are being considered - watch this space.
<h4 id="bluemap">What happened to the original blue map?</h4>
If you're asking about the default ingress map, this is available in the layer chooser, as "Default Ingress Map".
If you're wondering about the blue map available in the original IITC, this is no longer available by default, as we
far exceeded the free quota offered by Cloudmade, the map tile provider. However, there is a template plugin you can
use to add these back.
<ol>
<li>Install the <a href="?page=desktop#plugin-basemap-cloudmade">basemap-cloudmade plugin</a>.</li>
<li>Find the plugin.
In Chrome+Tampermonkey, choose 'Dashboard' from the Tampermonkey menu;
in Firefox+Greasemonkey, choose 'Manage user scripts' from the Greasemonkey menu.</li>
<li>Edit the plugin code, and follow the instructions within the file. You will need to register your own account
at Cloudmade.com, and obtain your own API key.</li>
</ol>
</li>
<li>
<h4 id="cheating">Isn't using IITC cheating/an unfair advantage?</h4>
IITC only uses data that is sent from the Ingress servers to the browser - it just displays it in an easy to use format.
There were, and continue to be, other browser add-ons that display this data - just not widely available.
With the right skills it is already possible to see this data using the browser debugging console, and
there were, and continue to be, other browser add-ons that display this data - just not widely available.
Having a good quality, feature rich add-on, available to all - Enlightened and Resistance - ensures one side does not
have an unfair advantage.
</li>