Thread: [ANNOUNCE] GeePS for Harmattan: Native UI around Google Maps
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Ynohtna is offline Ynohtna
2012-06-19 , 18:12
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Originally Posted by fcrochik View Post
I have to say that I think the navigation on the Nokia phones is pretty good but what happened to me several times is that I couldn't find a "business" (by name or category) and since I got lost following directions more than once I really wanted to have a textual description of the path.
Exactly my same frustration with Nokia Maps, the search, even online search, is no where close to Google for my North American (Canada) needs. So in cases where I need navigation, the integration to maps is brilliant Traffic is way better on google too but I only use that in areas I know very well.

Originally Posted by fcrochik View Post
How do you feel about "how it works"? I wanted to have all the options accessible and easy to find. I do agree with about "how it looks". The color came from promising my daughter a purple application.
LOL on the purple. Ok forgiven. I have a 2.5 year old. I need to actually use it more in real life to have a better feeling of how the menu works... I'm thinking the buttons need to be bigger for reaching to push the buttons while it's mounted on the dash for example.

Originally Posted by fcrochik View Post
On the navigation: first of all be careful! While I was testing the application I almost got into an accident.
I'm not really that interested to use this for navigation. I do wonder if the center button might be better suited in the bottom left corner instead of left middle. I'm sure you've played around with it a lot though and the fact if you use it landscape blah blah...

Originally Posted by fcrochik View Post
I have never used the "my maps". What is it about? Another common request is the "street view". I really don't know when I will find the time but I will try...
My Maps are basically custom POI. Like I have a map with friends and family addresses. If I'm in someone's town, I can load up that map and quickly get to their location and not worry about look up the address and address search.

I have maps for my vacation destinations where I research all I need and put it in a personal Map... though normally I would use nokia maps cause of offline mode for vacations.

Originally Posted by fcrochik View Post
BTW, Thank you very much for your donation.
sorry "all my monies" was so underwhelming