Re: Get Google Maps App ported to the N900
 

AFAIK, fennec will be location aware.

And Maemo Mapper can use google maps.

But a real google maps app would be great if it was on the level of polish of their other platforms (Android, BB, iPhone, Symbian, Palm, WinMo). Looks like Maemo is the only real smartphone platform that does not get corporate love...

Re: Get Google Maps App ported to the N900
 

Google could port Google Maps and some other software to Maemo 5. Google Maps uses Qt on Linux, and at least part of the code is portable given it works on various ARM platforms.

Question is, why would they care to do that? How many customers honestly care for this feature?

BTW, there is a Java ME port of Google Maps.

Re: Get Google Maps App ported to the N900
 

im sure u could run the java version of google maps in a java container

but i too would like a native app as its my primary mapping software.... im not even gonna hold my breath for tomtom and the likes to come out on the n900

Re: Get Google Maps App ported to the N900
 

Google maps is one of those apps that work well in the PalmOS GVM. Particularly with that 3party tool to make it use 320x480 pixels instead of 320x320 (mentioned in another thread about GVM, which I don't have a pointer to atm.)

Re: Get Google Maps App ported to the N900
 

So far there has been an amazing response to my post over on google. Hope it does some good!

Re: Get Google Maps App ported to the N900
 

Maybe we can ask for a port? In a community effort?

Re: Get Google Maps App ported to the N900
 

You can try my Google Maps UI for the N900:
http://tomch.com/maemaps.html

Re: Get Google Maps App ported to the N900
 

I'm thinkin' CodeDiver...

>> http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=20613

Does that help?

Re: Get Google Maps App ported to the N900
 

All we need now is to be able to connect to Latitude. Anyone got an info about its innards?

Re: Get Google Maps App ported to the N900
 

That's the one, yes. It worked perfectly for me. Unfortunately it turned out that there's a time limit on it, I didn't notice it was a licensed program when I installed it. But it's a tool that does what it says it does.