Thread: Sygic announces world-wide turn-by-turn navigation for Maemo
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2010-01-14 , 08:29
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Originally Posted by sevdali View Post
One solution is to just buy Sygic (the whole company or just the app) and offer it for free.
Sygic belongs to Teleatlas and Teleatlas belongs to TomTom. Teleatlas is the direct competitor of Navteq. And Navteq...
Originally Posted by pinsh View Post
However, they [Nokia] don't need to buy Sygic for that, they already bought NAVTEQ, who makes excellent maps and software for navigation devices.
Navteq has superior map quality over Teleatlas in western europe. Teleatlas is about 1-2 years behind in updating their raw material where Navteq offers newer - and since all Navteq powered apps I know usually have the better routing - I also suppose even better material. This doesn't help the case though that OVI Maps on N900 seems to be a waste
Originally Posted by acano View Post
does sygic offers something similar to "street view" from google?
No, it doesn't. And no other "offline" navigation software does. Google Maps is an *online* software, it needs an active connection to the net to work and thus can provide features like street view and the like. Sygic Drive is meant for offline route guidance and it's only meant for that and it does that quite well.
Originally Posted by romanianusa View Post
Does the voice announce the street name??
Another question: Does this app require internet to run and download map on the fly?
I am not quite sure, but I think there is a TTS-module (text-to-speach eg announce street names) available for the Windows Mobile version of Sygic, but I'm not to sure about that, didn't use Sygic on WM for quite a while. It provides good general directional announcements though.
You usually buy Sygic on an SD-Card where everything comes preinstalled. Don't know how they deal with program-only-downloads from stores like OVI or Windows Marketplace and the like. I suppose you can make the software download the maps via a internet connection as for example FALK CoPilot does on Android. After you started the prog for the first time it asks you to download the map data. But this will be a one-time download only, once you have the maps, they stay on your card/in your memory and get used by the program/device.