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2009-09-06
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#11
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Originally Posted by livefreeordie
Hmm? Why shouldn't it? And this is also the first time I heard about the n900 maps application not supporting turn-by-turn - where did you get that?
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2009-09-06
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Originally Posted by twaelti
Negative points:[LIST][*]POI data quality average, many POI missing or incomplete (ATM, Hotels)
On my symbian phone (e90) there's a very useful workaround for the scarcity of poi's on Ovi maps.
In fact, on that platform quite fortunately Google maps and Ovi maps can use the same format for preferred places. So, I look for what I need on Google maps, then when I find it I save it as a preferred place, and re-open that on Ovi maps.
I hope we are going to have Google maps on the N900, too, and that the same trick can be applied.
Otherwise, it would be an interesting development project to implement
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2009-09-06
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Originally Posted by range
I can't find the link anymore, sorry. I hope they were misinformed.
Hmm? Why shouldn't it? And this is also the first time I heard about the n900 maps application not supporting turn-by-turn - where did you get that?
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2009-09-06
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Originally Posted by debernardis
Unless some Google engineer does it as part of his/her "20%", I'm sure we won't for quite a while. Google's support of maps for smartphones is impressive (S60, Palm, Blackberry, iPhone, Wmob, Java) but I don't see them jumping to build a Maemo version just to support one device.
I hope we are going to have Google maps on the N900, too, and that the same trick can be applied.
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2009-09-06
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Originally Posted by mistermix
So it can be done by extracting the lat/long coordinates from google search and feeding them to ovi maps. I bet that google apis mixed with ovi map apis allow that... not that I'm capable of coding though!
Unless some Google engineer does it as part of his/her "20%", I'm sure we won't for quite a while. Google's support of maps for smartphones is impressive (S60, Palm, Blackberry, iPhone, Wmob, Java) but I don't see them jumping to build a Maemo version just to support one device.
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2009-09-06
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Originally Posted by mistermix
Well, google earth is built on QT and is readily available for desktop linux distros. I can't imagine that it would be much of a stretch to see a google maps app for maemo built on the same framework...but that's just a guess on my part.
Unless some Google engineer does it as part of his/her "20%", I'm sure we won't for quite a while. Google's support of maps for smartphones is impressive (S60, Palm, Blackberry, iPhone, Wmob, Java) but I don't see them jumping to build a Maemo version just to support one device.
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8951320009.html