City visits, i find, are near impossible without google maps... on a recent trip to london, it was worth its weight in gold....
Is anybody aware of the fact that mankind is re-evolving to mindless apes when everybody's dependies on the big G are growing and and growing? Think about it.
Just found it. It's in the App manager > Location & Navigation > 'maemo-geolocation'.
Originally Posted by sxg75
Is anybody aware of the fact that mankind is re-evolving to mindless apes when everybody's dependies on the big G are growing and and growing? Think about it.
Is anybody aware of the fact that mankind is re-evolving to mindless apes when everybody's dependies on the big G are growing and and growing? Think about it.
given the fact they've written the app for android, how hard could it be to port it to maemo, they're both linux right??
Android apps are written in Java running using Android specific API's. The fact that the underlying kernels are both Linux does not necessarily make it easy to port between Android and Maemo. In fact, it is probably easier to port between Blackberry and Android than it is to port between Android and Maemo.
Quick question, you people DO know that google USES maps that NOKIA owns right?
Are you sure that they are still using Navteq anywhere? In the US they dropped Navteq in favor of Tele Atlas a couple years ago and recently started using mostly their own data... check the copyright at the bottom of a google maps page, is it still Navteq where you're at?
I tried using Ovimaps for a little bit today. I was getting a little confused. I feel kinda bad for Nokia in this department... Some poor guys' creation (ovi maps) seems to be far less popular than google maps...
Hmm... I know Google has a really fancy As3 (Actionscript 3) API. I wonder if it would be a really bad or ok idea to create a Flash SWF that shows Google Maps in fullscreen.
I give As3 lectures and one of my students recently tried out the api and showed me it was more or less trivial to get a zoomable, scrollable map in Flash...
We could then probably implement a search box that pops up and shows a nice dialog for searching for an address... I have to look at the api though, to see what it allows and what it doesn't.
At best, it could make developing a Flash-based Google maps app really easy. At worst, it would be no better than the browser and be a lot more cpu intense...
