Will be apps for all phone operating systems, coming soon. (except BB)
Map data is from Nokia Navteq which powers Rand McNally, Garmin, Bing, Yahoo Maps and the maps in many vehicles like BMW & Land Rover
Allows offline maps (for those phones that don’t already have this)
Turn by turn voice guided navigation for walking, transit and driving (except on Apple iOS who won’t allow them to do this for driving directions, go figure)
Maps can be updated by the USER where roads & places can be added, changed, etc. and updated for everyone. (Could be miss-used?)
3D maps, traffic data, all the goodies.
If you like the style of Bing Maps you’ll like this. It’s basically an update / re-brand of Nokia maps.
I used Nokia Maps walking around Bangkok to get from the restaurant the tuk tuk driver tried to scam us into eating at to the area we wanted to be at in the first place. Worked great then. I’m sure it’s only better now. :tup:
Wonder how long before this is released for Android. TomTom really fucked up their release so I’m still looking for a good GPS with offline capability.
The assertion that Google Maps is somehow a laughable product just simply tells me that you have a silly grudge. I don’t doubt Nokia’s product is good, I just doubt that it puts Google to shame and makes Google’s product laughable.
The whole idea of pre-caching your maps over wifi on a GPS you plan to use a lot is retarded. What if I want to detour around some construction, or change my route for any number of reasons? How reliable is that cache and what prevents it from getting cleared or overwritten?
Yeah, no thanks. I had the TomTom app on my iPhone and it only took up about 1.6GB for the entire US and Canada, including POIs.
Incidentally, just snagged TomTom for android from a torrent and it’s running great on my S3. In landscape mode the car cursor isn’t centered (probably part of the reason why they aren’t releasing it yet on higher res phones) but in portrait mode it works perfect.
well, I’ve never had an issue with needing the cached maps anyway. Chances that I’ll be out of coverage AND need a re-route so far out of the way that the maps aren’t there, are slim. Been using an android/google maps nav for 3 years with the feature and never needed it. I put a lot of miles on too.
the cache is plenty reliable. It’s actually not really a cache, in the traditional sense. It’s a downloaded map in the Maps app. I can go into the app, see/view/open all of my saved maps.
I have my local area cached, but I doubt I’d ever need it. Not to mention the integration with the rest of the OS/Device is awesome.
With this software you can store all of North America on your device not just the route you plan on using. And you don’t need wifi to do it. You can then navigate half of the world without needing a signal.
And that’s the point of this software; that users can add to the map data any roads, etc. that are missing. You can even tell it what roads are paved, stone or dirt as the image above suggests.
Apple could really benefit if they allowed users to add their own data to maps like this software does (let users fix things) since they only have what, 2 years worth of mapping data? And Navteq has 25+ years.
