nav4all

[rose]

Can somebody share his experiences with nav4all with me. I heard many things about nav4all. Is it really free till august? Is the software fast and easy to use?

[chemist]

NAVTEC (100% nokia subsidiary) shut down for nav4all

http://www.nav4all.com/site2/www.nav4all.com/enguk/index.php

What for? So map data was for free anyway so now that Ovi Maps goes "free" they dont want others to keep their market shares?

Was a good program to answer a 3 year old question

[uncle.sam]

Was a great programm, but unavailable for N900. I used it with my 9300i and the N73 without problems.

[ruskie]

Where do you get this idea that it was free to Nokia? It makes no business sense for Navteq even if it's 100% Nokia owned to give them the data for free. They need to show a profit on their books. So they licensed it to them. Probably at a reduced rate but still there was cost.

I know we charge our parent company for using software that we host and maintain. It's plain business sense. It takes our time, effort and resources to maintain.

[chemist]

"They are free for users anyway" was what I wanted to tell, for any nokia device you can even download them.
Nav4All would be a good partner for doing maemo maps stuff but Nokia wants to push ovi maps not even available in full beauty for nxx0 devices.
I guess this wasnt a navteq but a nokia decision.