1) install Garnet VM; fill in registration, include your email address, they will then send you a link, click the link to dl or install directly on your tablet. It is a .deb file. Pick os2009 for N900, and os2008 for N8x0, or see later post this thread.

2) download GoogleMaps.prc (415,903 kb, version 2.0.2.0) into your tablet, http://www.freewarepalm.com/travel/googlemaps.shtml
Or using a palm/Treo/Tungston or any palm variant, go m.google.com/maps will also do.

No Blazer, no dl!
Access m.google.com/maps within gvm would NOT work.
Upgrade within your GoogleMaps 1.0.29.0 would NOT work.
There are certainly some other ways to do it, that is the way I succeeded.

3) Fire up GVM, install>GoogleMaps.prc

This is the ONLY WORLD map that is bilingual on the map without having to install a separate language pack, and you dont need POI, the whole google is behind it

4) There is a way to make it full screen, search for it, that will give a bigger map

5) Do not see how this would not work for 770, will try later...
Edit: Done, works way TOO GOOD for 770, see later post, works just as if it is a N900. I got the feeling that Garnet VM is probably the next life for 770. Currently, my 770 is running
2007He, GVM, Skype, maemo map, tear, and media player audio and video. The best toy for the best bargain I ever owned!

Enjoy,

System:
N900 PR1.2 GVM beta6, GVM os2009
N810, latest OS, GVM beta6 GVM os2008
770 2007He, GVM beta6 os2007

bun

Thanks for the heads up! will try when I get home.
yet to try GarnetVM as I still have my old palm.

I tried to get the *&#)((*&^%$.prc directly onto the tablet for 2 weeks and failed miserably! You need a palm/Treo or any palm variants running Blazer! Google is nasty.

bun

Is that not the same as this one?

http://www.freewarepalm.com/travel/googlemaps.shtml

Good catch! Yes, I just dl it and checked, it is the same file. Well that makes life a lot easier.

I made change on the 1st post,

Thanks,

bun

I just tried with Firefox and User Agent Switcher with the Treo 650 user agent and I was able to download it just fine - no problem at all. Is there something I'm missing here?

Treo 650 User Agent:
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98; PalmSource/hspr-H102; Blazer/4.0) 16;320x320

No. A Treo or any palm variant will do. I was doing the 'hard way' by dl it from within GVM on the Nokia tablet, it keeps kicking me out.

bun

Yes, 770 works just as well and super fast!

It needs to set setting to 32 Mb heap size. gvm for OS 2008 wont install. I am using gvm for 2007 and running on 2007He. put it to satellite, OMG, my 770 is seeing buildings on hiway, it functions not much different from N900, lol........

bun

Which Os is the n900 is it os2009? thanks

The PR1.2.

bun