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2009-10-28
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A Maemo developer got lost and posted his negative experience with the N900's Ovi Maps on his blog It isn't pretty:
Mapping is a critical app - I hope this is fixed soon.
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2009-10-28
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There is a forum thread over at google asking them to port google maps to Maemo, so hopefully something will come of that...
http://www.google.com/support/forum/...5398e001&hl=en
http://www.google.com/support/forum/...5398e001&hl=en
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2009-10-28
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Originally Posted by edgedemon
i.e., Maemo Mapper. . . .
There is a forum thread over at google asking them to port google maps to Maemo, so hopefully something will come of that...
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2009-10-28
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Originally Posted by edgedemon
Lets see, Google have Android to play with so what are they going to think about helping the competition product? Whilst I would LOVE to see Google Maps (and Latitude) on Maemo I will be very surprised if it happens through a supported channel at Google. Would be nice if they would open up the Latitude API though so we could use that from within Maemo Mapper etceteras!
There is a forum thread over at google asking them to port google maps to Maemo, so hopefully something will come of that...
http://www.google.com/support/forum/...5398e001&hl=en
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2009-10-28
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Originally Posted by Fargus
Google has released and continues to update Maps for BlackBerry, Symbian, WM and iPhone. Google's business model is advertising, not selling software or hardware, so if there are enough eyeballs on the Maemo platform, they'll build software for it.
Lets see, Google have Android to play with so what are they going to think about helping the competition product? Whilst I would LOVE to see Google Maps (and Latitude) on Maemo I will be very surprised if it happens through a supported channel at Google. Would be nice if they would open up the Latitude API though so we could use that from within Maemo Mapper etceteras!
Google just announced turn-by-turn nav for free for Android 2.0, and they plan to release it for iPhone, too. So the whole "pay for navigation" model that Ovi uses looks like it's out the window.
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2009-10-28
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I don't understand what the issue is with Maps.
I used it for three days straight in a city I've never been in before and never had problems with finding my way anywhere I wanted to go. The UI, granted, is not very good at all and VERY confusing, but the actual functions all worked perfectly fine to me.
Replace and fix the UI and get rid of the Javascript crap and it would be fine.
I used it for three days straight in a city I've never been in before and never had problems with finding my way anywhere I wanted to go. The UI, granted, is not very good at all and VERY confusing, but the actual functions all worked perfectly fine to me.
Replace and fix the UI and get rid of the Javascript crap and it would be fine.
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2009-10-28
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As for Europe, you certainly don't want to download maps through the cellphone connection, unless you're driving in your own country - the roaming data prices are still insane.
/me thinks my good old TomTom navigator will do the job better
/me thinks my good old TomTom navigator will do the job better
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2009-10-28
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Originally Posted by olighak
Agreed. The TomTom Navigator 6 I've been using on my Palm Treo 750 leaves the maps on your device (or an SD card in the 750's case), with absolutely NO need to have a GPRS signal to navigate, unless you're using the traffic application (invaluable, imo). To require the app to connect to calculate turn-by-turn is a BIG step backwards. My suggestion: the maps should be free for the region in which you bought your phone, i.e. North America. I'll pay a fee to download the maps for another region I'm traveling to, i.e. Europe, but to require a connection when I'm outside of my home country will cost me WAY too much money in data roaming charges.
Not necessarily. Google Maps still relies on you having a cell signal to download the maps. If youŽve ever driven outside of US cities youŽd know how many times one looses a signal. For those travels Google Maps is not the answer, Ovi Maps is.
I have to admit though, that through my 2.5 years of using Nokia maps I always preferred Maps 1.0 for symbian to 2.0 and 3.0. It seemed like the later versions always wanted to call home to mommy to calculate directions, while 1.0 was happy to do it by itself without having a signal. That calling home to calculate a route bugged the hell out of me and made it tricky to use in the boons of Maine, New Brunswick or West Virginia.
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2009-10-28
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Originally Posted by olighak
The latest version announcement said that Google Maps has the ability to cache some panels, but I grant you that it's not the equivalent of having the maps stored on the device.
Not necessarily. Google Maps still relies on you having a cell signal to download the maps. If youŽve ever driven outside of US cities youŽd know how many times one looses a signal. For those travels Google Maps is not the answer, Ovi Maps is.
And, since the US version has to use T-Mobile, you make an important point.
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2009-10-28
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Originally Posted by olighak
Since Verizon is launching Android 2.0 on the Droid, this is less of an issue. I'm constantly amazed when I travel in the boonies and still have Verizon signal.
Which provider, T-mobile / AT&T, doesnŽt make a difference once you go drive around Maine/New Hampshire/Canada/Texas/West Virginia/North Carolina/Georgia/Alabama/Missouri/Louisiana/New Mexico/Virginia/Pennsylvania/New Jersey/New York/Vermont/Tennessee/Illinois/South Carolina/Maryland.
T-mobile users can roam onto other providers, if there is no t-mobile tower but another provider with one has a roaming contract with T-mobile.
IŽve been using AT&T up until now, and hate their guts if I may add, so loosing the signal in all the above places while using my N95 and Nokia maps has been with AT&T. And by the way, IŽve got 0-1 bars with AT&T at home, 2-3 with T-mobile. At work 1-2 bars with AT&T (3 miles out of downtown Raleigh) and 3-4 with T-mobile.
What would be ideal is the ability to have a nationwide set of maps on my device that would automatically be refreshed as I travel to new areas. If I had signal, the latest map pages would be downloaded to my device. If not, the local files would be used.