Comments on: Maemo5 and (lack of) navigation

By: Ghazi

Ghazi — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 04:24:55 +0000

OVI Maps 3.03 allows new symbian smarphones to have access to maps and navigation WITHOUT a data plan so its reasonable to expect that of the n900

By: flopp

flopp — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 18:16:43 +0000

Actually, maep supports caching of map tiles (at least for the OSM maps). So you are able to preload maps for your travelling destination: in your home wifi launch maep, zoom to your destination and maep will start to load map tiles. From now on maep is able to use these tiles even without a network connection.

By: Giacomo

Giacomo — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:55:47 +0000

And to think that pre-1.1 Ovi Maps was even worse… But they improved it dramatically with 1.1, so the next iteration will probably be as good as the S60 counterpart. I just hope that we won’t have to wait for Maemo 6 to see it.

By: Giacomo

Giacomo — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 11:51:54 +0000

You buy an internet tablet without a dataplan? #youfail :)

By: Marcin Juszkiewicz

Marcin Juszkiewicz — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:17:13 +0000

According to demos on their website application looks interesting. I hope that UI will get few Maemo5 style fixes.

By: Marcin Juszkiewicz

Marcin Juszkiewicz — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:16:10 +0000

I know that such way exists. But I have MS Windows licenses on some of my machines so using Nokia Map Loader is fine for me. I just have to try to keep my sanity in proper level each time when I see how ugly UI those Nokia apps have.

By: Andrew Flegg

Andrew Flegg — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:09:32 +0000

FWIW, you don’t need to use a Windows program to preload data for Ovi Maps on Maemo: http://www.maemopeople.org/index.php/jaffa/2009/10/13/downloading_ovi_maps_without_a_network_c

By: BluesLee

BluesLee — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:50:45 +0000

@marcin: you should have a second look on navit. downloading maps is quite easy and fast and the ui is customizable. unfortunately, the latest build in extras crashes:-)

Blues

By: Stéphane

Stéphane — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 19:32:37 +0000

It’s really a shame that we have to wait for a third party program, to have a feature that even lower end devices already have ! Nokia has really missed something here. I’m aware of the “time to market” problematic when delopping such a device, but for a large company like Nokia I would expect a better support for a flagship device (which fom a technical point of view, the N900 is).

By: Xav

Xav — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 18:12:19 +0000

How to tell it .. I still don’t have a dataplan, so the N900 GPS is plain unusable. You have to wait for a fix forever unless you are somewhere with a wifi access BUT outside any building, and then as soon as you leave the wifi range nothing works. FAIL.