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Re: Is there any kind of Google Maps app/integration in the N900?

1. The GPS is unreliable when out of range of a mobile data signal or accessible WiFi. It nearly always fails to lock. So in rural areas it is often useless (no usable mobile data signal). This may be a software bug but nobody is sure, and anyway Nokia's comments so far (on bug tracker) imply they think people out of range of a mobile data signal are not target users therefore they may not put much effort into investigating or fixing it.

2. Last time I tried to load maps.google.com into the web browser, MicroB, it crashed the browser! It's the only page which has crashed the browser for me.

3. Ovi Maps has a lot of UI problems and bugs - falls below modern standards - but it's basically usable for looking at a map. The routing is not helpful if you have to deviate at all, or if you know a better shortcut for part of it. It does not do turn by turn commands. It sometimes gets confused about where you are even when GPS is working.

Re: Is there any kind of Google Maps app/integration in the N900?

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Originally Posted by jjx (Post 462549)

OVI Maps Blows, I went back to LORAN

Re: Is there any kind of Google Maps app/integration in the N900?

I've postet the zoom-problem to the google support site
http://www.google.com/support/forum/...?tid=6df28ce9c
Tody i've recognized that there is already a geolocation function at http://maps.google.com, so the only problem is that this site is not optimized for small screens, but you can zoom, search, route and find you position.

Re: Is there any kind of Google Maps app/integration in the N900?

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Tody i've recognized that there is already a geolocation function at http://maps.google.com, so the only problem is that this site is not optimized for small screens, but you can zoom, search, route and find you position.

And it doesn't afaicr work with Latitude

Re: Is there any kind of Google Maps app/integration in the N900?

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Originally Posted by eightyhertz (Post 458837)

Just want to say thanks to everyone for the helpful posts. http://www.google.com/maps/m works with maemo-geolocation.

As everyone mentioned, with hover/cursor mode in the browser, I can pan around and zoom in by double tapping, but I cannot zoom out.

I opened that URL in my desktop browser to test, and I noticed that the typical + and -, and mouse scroll up/down does not zoom the maps in and out.

So what key shortcut/mouse action actually is required to zoom the maps in and out? Once that's figured out then we can find a way to pass that to the javascript or something.

Heres the fix for zooming:

http://www.fonearena.com/blog/11189/...okia-n900.html