OVI Maps has the spins?
 

My OVI maps gets the "spins" whenever you stop. What's up with that? You should be able to pin it one way or the other. If you are jsut sitting still, sometimes it just spins to some "seemingly" arbitrary position?

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After spending hundreds of millions on nav technologies Nokia still hasn't figured this whole map thingy out.

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This is because the device has no compass. You need to be moving for it to get a sense of where you are facing.

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It's because someone who's working on Ovi Maps didn't realize that you just lock the orientation when you stop moving. -_-

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Makes you appreciate the amount of work that went into Maemo Mapper and wonder why Nokia developers didn't at least refer to it when reinventing their interface.

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I've used native Google Maps on many smartphones without built-in compass and seem to be far more intelligent. Even with one or two steps it seems to know the direction you're walking and never goes spinning.

Another thing is the search function. Why does it look around the world 4000 miles away if it doesn't locate your POI!! e.g. searching for Costco in the UK brings up addresses in the US. I'll just get on a plane… :D

I'm fairly happy with the update. At least OVI maps is now functional. They really should give us voice turn by turn navigation free for being N900B(eta testers) and to compete with Google before it's too late.

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How is this user still posting if he's banned??

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The other deal wold be to pin the map. I can do that in my car. I can make the map always N up. Or facing forward up. The update does make it a "little" more functional. I was playing around with Google maps, Meap, and a few others, and none of them spin. You can't tell me that nobody a Nokia doesn't know this is going on. That's what's amazing, they've let this go on for how long now?? Then they update the SW and don't fix this "GLARING" goof up?

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Wowwwww....

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Is there no north up mode in Ovi Maps or has someone managed to prevent the map from spinning?
I love my N900 but the Maps application drives me crazy. Maybe OVI means crap in Finnish?

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I've tried pinning the map with that compass gadget, but as soon as you let go of it the map spins again. I for the life of me am confused what that compass thing is for. This is a shame actually because the upgrade fix a number of my complaints with OVI maps.

Maemo! There's a BUG for that!

Sorry, couldn't resist, admittedly a low shot!

https://bugs.maemo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8126

Can't believe nobody opened a bug yet!

Please vote for OUR bug! Let's get 'er fixed boyz, err and girlz!

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I pesonaly think that ovi maps on N900 are seriously ****!!!
I love this phone to bits with all his bugs and lil issues but the maps oooh come on ovi nokia whoever done this get it sorted soom. Have other phone E71 at home and the maps are one of the best i ever came acros on phone when it gets to navigation or just searching. Why cant we get a proper functional maps on this n900 for all the money we pay to nokia......

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If the Maps app were what it should be and the Bluetooth reception didn't suck, I would be happy as the proverbial clam!

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But ovi-maps seems to be partially written in JavaScript. Have set orientation=0 in /usr/share/nokia-maps/html/javascripts/nokia.maps.js and it seems like the maps are locked north up now.

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Very interesting find, looks like Ovi Maps is a WRT/Webkit based app.
Done by gate5, the German Navi company (smart2go) they acquired >3 years ago.

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Was this where you set 0?

var orientation=map.PRESERVE_ORIENTATION

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No. It was something like that:

if(typeof aPosition.orientation=="string"}{orientation=0}els e{orientation=0}

Sorry, don't remember exactly what I have changed in this file but created a patch for that.

Usage:
bspatch nokia.maps.js nokia.maps.js.new patchfile

MD5 sums:
aa908f6d9a422088d9bcd09ed5640307 nokia.maps.js.old
7fae57916df6739e8dcb38291487b167 nokia.maps.js
597b17c432914e2eabd325148ba7dfde patchfile

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Where do you get this bspatch?

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$ diff nokia.maps.js.old.beautified nokia.maps.js.beautified

15239c15239
< orientation = this._ROTATIONS[aPosition.orientation]
---
> orientation = 0
15241c15241
< orientation = (aPosition.orientation + 360) % 360
---
> orientation = 0

Used JavaScript-Beautifier-0.17 to be able to use diff to compare the files.

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I never got the patch file to work as I asked above about bspatch

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Yeah I would really like it if we could get ovi maps working where North was always up instead of spinning around when you turn in your car.

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The real problem is the spins when you stop.

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Have you tried to patch it?

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I don't suppose you would mind answering my question about bspatch would you?

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Does the patch file not apply or have you problems running the 'bspatch' binary?

Maybe your version of the 'nokia.maps.js' file is just different . Could you provide the md5sum of your 'nokia.maps.js' ? I've posted mine somewhere above in this thread.

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I have got it from http://www.daemonology.net/bsdiff/