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Nokia 'Here Map' arrives at the App Store
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Supposedly it wasn't ready. The Apple / Google maps deal had a year or so still to run so apparently Google were taken by surprise that Apple pulled the existing app when they did.
Do you happen to have a source for this? I've always heard (via offhand comments, admittedly) that the deal was done and Google wasn't surprised.
Nothing categorical and to be honest I'm not sure I buy it 100%.
The timing of dropping Google maps makes sense - Apple are on an annual upgrade for iOS. If the choice is to launch their own maps 14 months before the end of the deal or 2 months before the end of the deal 14 months makes sense so you've got a fall back.
And if it makes sense then it seems sensible that Google who had all the information and knew of the animosity would be able to work it out.
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#23Let's hope Google Maps for iOS will be released soon now. I had trouble not chuckling at Google not releasing it after the Maps debacle, but fundamentally I think it's doing a disservice to the Google brand and it's customers in general.
Quick Route uses Google's data and is fantastic: http://excitedpixel.com/apps/ios/quickroute/
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#24Much better than Apple Maps, but still: * The Hayward Gallery is in the wrong place: http://here.net/united-kingdom/london/museum/hayward-gallery... * Searching for "Dover Castle" goes to the Castle in Dover rather than the pub And the non-Retina resolution tiles are annoying. Do Nokia's high-resolution phones get the same tiles?
How is it much better than Apple's maps app? It's just a thin wrapper over Nokia's web site (here.net), and for my location the data is worse and there's no satellite imagery at all. Directions are far more limited (public transport routing isn't even available in the UK) and the UI completely unintuitive (how do I start a route?) I would welcome a superior maps app to Apple, however just putting a thin wrapper over…
how do I start a route?
This bugged me for a while until I realised that they don't do driving navigation. There's a purple button with an arrow (play button) when you're in walking mode that lets you start voice navigation. It's very disappointing.
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#25It's quite quick on my iphone 4 but the actual maps are blurred. It would seem that they are rendered at the "old" iphone resolution. This gives the app a very unpolished look unfortunately.
Yeah, it's blazing fast for me; I don't understand the hate in the other comments. Unlike Bing maps, getting directions is intuitive for me, and I couldn't care less about satellite imagery. If caching works at all, this will be a useful app. Guess I will have to give it a week or so for evaluation, though.
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#26I really wanted to like this, but Google is still tops for its location database. Maybe Nokia and the other non-Google players can band together to address this, because I don't see how anyone will catch up otherwise.
It's also strange to me that this is the case, because if they're using FedEX and UPS data you would think that would be a superior location data mining operation.
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#27Let's hope Google Maps for iOS will be released soon now. I had trouble not chuckling at Google not releasing it after the Maps debacle, but fundamentally I think it's doing a disservice to the Google brand and it's customers in general.
Supposedly it wasn't ready. The Apple / Google maps deal had a year or so still to run so apparently Google were taken by surprise that Apple pulled the existing app when they did.
As long as they read the rumor mills they had 6-8 month notice.
Still might not be long enough, I'm not sure how much development time it takes for an app like that.
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#28That interface looks like MapQuest ten years ago. Completely unacceptable.
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#29Looks like the streets in Tokyo are missing.
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#30Let's hope Google Maps for iOS will be released soon now. I had trouble not chuckling at Google not releasing it after the Maps debacle, but fundamentally I think it's doing a disservice to the Google brand and it's customers in general.
Quick Route uses Google's data and is fantastic: http://excitedpixel.com/apps/ios/quickroute/
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