version 1.7.1.4 nice new look
http://mobile.google.com
Loaded and can't say I see much difference? Are the satellite views now hibrid, not sure if street names were on them before. Other than that I don't see the "new".
new directions view - turn by turn list with option to view map turn by turn
new transition slide to next direction
new iphone-esque plop down of location pin (callout)
new context menu for locations - click on a pizza shop after searching
new hybrid satellite view
new landmark labels in above view
double click to zoom (might have been in previous versions)
more
did you even use it for more than 10 seconds?
Steveborough said:
new directions view - turn by turn list with did you even use it for more than 10 seconds?
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ummmm, well... yes, but obviously not enough, maybe 5 minutes. I did a simple search for FedEx Kinkos and I guess I missed the "Plop down". These are all great additions, it was just subtle to me. I've been using Live Search more and forgot the details of Google.
I wish Both Google and Live Search could add a "Heading Up" choice for mobile use and perhaps some hot key mapping.
I love Google. I wish I had held onto what I bought of it when it was $86/ share.
Why can't they add an "Update Available" option as on Live Search?
is the short GPS timeout fixed ?
New google maps - 1.7.1.4 - Get it Here
Uploaded it for you guys :
http://rapidshare.com/files/68506543/GoogleMaps_1.7.1.4.CAB
working great on my Kasier.
Enjoy,
NAdavi
whats the difference with this one?
...but doesn't exist an app like GPSTuner but that download/use/cache GoogleMaps images, and draw on it tracks, waypoints ecc ecc???
GpsTuner can use google maps, but you have to download it with the pc, then calibrate it. Will be fine if GPSTuner download in auto google maps images and draw on it
Looks like they integrated the "find location" and "find buisness" into one search function
The directions overview is different
seems a lil faster, but still no drag and drop re-routing. it would also be nice if the program didn't kill itself if I lost data for a sec
edit: I see this was covered in another thread
If Google would just add voice.... WOW!
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is the short GPS timeout fixed ?
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Seems they did
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Seems they did
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Hmm, I'd say yes and no. I had to retry once before it aquired a lock. They've increased it, but it needs to be a little longer for a cold start I think.
Hi!
the previous version put me within 10 feet of where I was standing,
the new version, with my standing in the same place, puts me more than 50 feet away !
I am sure someone into GPS can explain better than I can....
Ofiaich
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Hi!
the previous version put me within 10 feet of where I was standing,
the new version, with my standing in the same place, puts me more than 50 feet away !
I am sure someone into GPS can explain better than I can....
Ofiaich
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That could just be coincidence. The precision of your location is a function of how many satellites your GPS unit has a lock on at any given moment. To really compare, you'd have to have made sure that a similar number of satellite locks were achieved when the measurement is made. And just cuz you are in the same spot doesn't guarantee that you had the same number.
I guess its possible that somehow the new version is "screwed up", but not as likely as the explanation above.
Oh, and yes it does seem like the GPS timeout issue is resolved or at least MUCH better. I hadn't used my GPS on my Kaiser in a few days, and yesterday, I was able to just test the "track my location" feature in the new Google maps. It waited for about a minute for the GPS to start up and get sat locks, then showed my location. So it didn't even ask me to retry. It just worked. The previous version would never do this.
But alas, no voice feature like in Live yet, but still its an improvement.
woudl you guys switch from live search to this new version?
I have installed and use both. Personally, i like Google's better for most purposes. Its a simpler, cleaner interface, with much less clicks req'd. So, I can use it while on the road more easily. Live is more robust, esp with the new voice and gas features. but it bothers me that I have to tap so many times just to get a map of some place.
Is there any way to have the map auto rotate when you are using GPS so you are always traveling UP on the screen?
Twenty4 said:
Is there any way to have the map auto rotate when you are using GPS so you are always traveling UP on the screen?
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Not that I know of, in either app. Only true route guidance apps, like TomTom or TeleNav do that currently...
jomo25 said:
Not that I know of, in either app. Only true route guidance apps, like TomTom or TeleNav do that currently...
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Hopefully that will be in the next update.
Related
Any one know what I am doing wrong with my phone? When I drive with google maps and get the gps working and everything the little blue dot moves along the way but doesn't scroll the screen over while I'm moving, I have to move it myself. Am I doing something wrong here or pressing something I shouldn't that deactivates it? Let me know.
thanks much
I think I've seen this happen if you scroll the screen yourself, I think there's some way to center the display or such and it'll then follow. Otherwise you're panned and it doesn't move.
This is a good thing if you want to pan the map to look at something and don't want it flipping back to your GPS location immediately.
I've yet to use Google Maps with a GPS honestly, because I have iGO and TomTom so it's possible there's a bug I haven't seen, but that's how it's "supposed" to work.
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Any one know what I am doing wrong with my phone? When I drive with google maps and get the gps working and everything the little blue dot moves along the way but doesn't scroll the screen over while I'm moving, I have to move it myself. Am I doing something wrong here or pressing something I shouldn't that deactivates it? Let me know.
thanks much
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No, you're not doing anything wrong. For google maps, once the blinking blue dot, (your location), is centralized on your screen, it will move as you move, as long as your location (blinking blue dot) is centralized.
If you happen to, let's say, use your stylus or finger to move the screen to view surrounding area, and de-centralize the blinking blue dot in the process, it will not re-center itself. But it's still navigating though.
You'll have to centralize the blinking blue dot (your location) by going in 'menu', and select "My Location". Hope this helps
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No, you're not doing anything wrong. For google maps, once the blinking blue dot, (your location), is centralized on your screen, it will move as you move, as long as your location (blinking blue dot) is centralized.
If you happen to, let's say, use your stylus or finger to move the screen to view surrounding area, and de-centralize the blinking blue dot in the process, it will not re-center itself. But it's still navigating though.
You'll have to centralize the blinking blue dot (your location) by going in 'menu', and select "My Location". Hope this helps
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ok, i'll let you know what happens next time I use it. Or go somewhere more than a couple miles.
khaytsus said:
I think I've seen this happen if you scroll the screen yourself, I think there's some way to center the display or such and it'll then follow. Otherwise you're panned and it doesn't move.
This is a good thing if you want to pan the map to look at something and don't want it flipping back to your GPS location immediately.
I've yet to use Google Maps with a GPS honestly, because I have iGO and TomTom so it's possible there's a bug I haven't seen, but that's how it's "supposed" to work.
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What version of Igo and TOMtom do you use? i have used both my self. just seems like the maps need a little updating and everything you know.
@masta7100 -- what GPS app are you using? -- the monthly pay plan ?
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You'll have to centralize the blinking blue dot (your location) by going in 'menu', and select "My Location". Hope this helps
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I had a similar problem and thought I'd lost GPS, thanks for the heads up.
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@masta7100 -- what GPS app are you using? -- the monthly pay plan ?
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It's up top.. google maps
Also,if you can see the blue dot on your screen, double tab the dot. It will re-center it and start following again.
Tin
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It's up top.. google maps
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thats just the maps, right?
you still need an app to run the maps, right?
tahnx
edit :: i checked it all out and understand.. loox pretty good for free..
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What version of Igo and TOMtom do you use? i have used both my self. just seems like the maps need a little updating and everything you know.
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iGO8 and TomTom 7. I owned Tom Tom 6 but got 7 from the threads here, it's a reasonable update.
I will be spending some time in Europe next month and would like to use some GPS navigation software on my Diamond while my phone connection remains blocked.
Now I know what you will say, "use the search!" I have. What im looking for is software not for a motorist but software for a pedestrian/tourist. I am looking for something that will contain top-down street maps akin to Google Maps, only not requiring a data connection.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
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I will be spending some time in Europe next month and would like to use some GPS navigation software on my Diamond while my phone connection remains blocked.
Now I know what you will say, "use the search!" I have. What im looking for is software not for a motorist but software for a pedestrian/tourist. I am looking for something that will contain top-down street maps akin to Google Maps, only not requiring a data connection.
Does anyone have any suggestions?
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In tomtom you can also choose pedestrian
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In tomtom you can also choose pedestrian
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Yeah, I heard of this pedestrian mode in tomtom, but I cant find any screens of what the maps are like. I would prefer a 2D face down map if walking
In TomTom (at least since version 5) you can switch from 2D to 3D mode and back. In 2D mode you will get the top down view you are looking for like http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v467/jonchoo/961678b0.jpg
cool. Will give tomtom a whirl if there is a trial version out there.
Anyone tried Google Navigator? Ive seen a few screenshots online (looks pretty good) but I cannot find out much else about it
What about buffering google maps? And only using wifi.?
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What about buffering google maps? And only using wifi.?
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If there is a way I can do that for the whole of Europe, I would
I had found this pretty cool GPS tool (www.terracrosser.com), yet it's zooming does not work on HTC Diamond. I had tried to modify registry fot scrolling wheel, but I was only able to scroll the map up and down, not to zoom.
Any help would be great.
Here is the way to registry:
HKLM/Software/HTC/SmartTouch/Terracrosser/
classname (string): #NETCF_AGL_BASE_
Mode (dword): 4
WheelCount (dword): 2
The website contains little to no information.
What does this app do?
How does it differ to Google maps?
Can it grab a map of Paris for me for me to use offline in the future?
I don't understand, it uses gps to show your location with maps from google maps.... So basically it's just google maps?
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The website contains little to no information.
What does this app do?
How does it differ to Google maps?
Can it grab a map of Paris for me for me to use offline in the future?
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Looks like it, read the .PDF on download page
So it appears. Try using Google Maps for the Diamond instead of Terracrosser.
Damn, what a nice tool, I will certanly keep that in mind!
I have searched for a proper solution to download the google maps for a long time... that saves me a lot gprs costs
Nice tool, hoe they gonna fix the zoom-bug, then it'll be just perfect!
Not really usable for the moment but, if I understand well the documentation, the tool Mapper (wich crashes for me) should be able to save maps with different zoom levels and that would be great ! Touch screen and jog dial navgation would also be great...
I'll keep an eye on this...
so how easy would it be to download maps for offline viewing.
Can I tell it to just 'go fetch maps for Paris' and that will be enough? Thats the sort of solution I would need, a list of cities and I 'check off' which ones I would want it to download and cache
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so how easy would it be to download maps for offline viewing.
Can I tell it to just 'go fetch maps for Paris' and that will be enough? Thats the sort of solution I would need, a list of cities and I 'check off' which ones I would want it to download and cache
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I have tested the mapper for some minutes, i am at work, so not much time to do it in detail
You have to zoom to the area you want to download by yourself, after that you choose how many zoomleves are to be saved and the rest dows the program on its own. Quite simple in my opinion.
But a feature to enter the city you want to download would be great, too
Perhabs it'll be added in the near future. It#s the first official version of this tool, as I have read on the page.
sorry but how can I control the program. I`ve added the necessary reg keys to navigate with hw keys but I can not zoom. stylus navigation isn`t supported?
Beta tester wanted
Hello!
If anybody want to betatest Terracrosser for HTC Diamond, please contact "mail at terracrosser dot com".
Thank you,
Nitisara
New Zooming method
Please use version 1.0.1 - touch screen zooming implemented (read User manual).
Great program, just what a lot of people have been after.
Why has it taken so long for someone to actually make an offline/cached map viewer??!?! I wouldn't have thought it would be that difficult!
I'm having a few problems with the software that I will try and solve, hopefully this keeps getting better!
what happened to Terracrosser.com??
I get a "server stoped" message when I go to the url where terracrosser was previously found
http://www.terracrosser.com
Site Not Working
Same problem for me also. Nitisara please make the site work so we can download the latest version of terracrosser.
Loved it in Cuba.
It's a pitty that the site is down.
Luckily I already grabbed a version. And I used it in Cuba
As far as I know there are no GPS-maps available because that is not allowed.
But Terracrosser was a big help, especially when a jinetero is helping you to go to somewhere else
Hello everybody,
lately I've been seeing a lot of stuf on navigation.
I've been using Mobile Map 9 for quite some time now. GPS signal is extremelly fast and so far it's clear nice looking (better then even TOMTOM).
Mod Edit :
Warez and XDA Dont get along well, so beware!
I have to say iv been using this aswell and the maps are great. Rerouting is very quick and all round nice experience.
I have notice though the interface seems to be a direct port from their java version. But i did speak to them this week and they told me they are working on a new interface for it at the moment. so it will be even better
Sygic Mobile Maps 9 is very nice, and my GPS of choice.
Is it in English?
@kizer it has a lot languages
the only thing i miss is to leave out streets of choice! thats what i love in tomtom
and i miss a no highway option that just pops up before i calculate and can be chosen at driving
don´t hurt me for my english i´m german
How does this compare to CoPilot Live 8?
does this save maps to the sd? what other features does it have
against copilot its much faster and i can hear musicstreams over 3g (via TuneWiki) while i´m navigating without any lag of a program and i can hear the voice verry clear even when i´m hearing music the same time
yes it saves the maps on your sd...
it does so much please watch out here
http://www.sygic.com/index.php/en/android.html
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against copilot its much faster and i can hear musicstreams over 3g (via TuneWiki) while i´m navigating without any lag of a program and i can hear the voice verry clear even when i´m hearing music the same time
yes it saves the maps on your sd...
it does so much please watch out here
http://www.sygic.com/index.php/en/android.html
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I would like to get this and try it out, I installed copilot, holy crap it's slow.
Hmmm, the purchase page says select region. North, Central, and South America. Funny thing is there is not one Central American country listed.
FAIL
Uploading.....
I'm uploading Mobile Maps 9 to 4Shared.
It contained the Program and the benelux MAPS.
Tonight I'll upload the keygen for Map Activation.
*Taking a massive amout of time to upload
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does this save maps to the sd? what other features does it have
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The MAPS are on the SD card. The App reads it from there.
**LINK IS UP ON FIRST POST
YuYe
XDA-Developer's Has 0% Tolerance against Warez, Please stop distributing it
This is your First and your last warning
Peace
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GPS signal is extremelly fast
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Hate to break it to you, but this has *NOTHING* to do with the program you are running. *ALL* programs will take the same time to lock on to the GPS signal since the program itself has NOTHING to do with it. They call on OS functions to get GPS data.
If it appeared to take less time to lock on the GPS signal, then it is because the conditions just happened to be good for it.
I.e., clear sky, low/no foliage, possibly the GPS was already "warm", etc.
Name: JustAnotherMaps
It`s Just Another Maps based on OpenStreetMaps maps data. It does not use Bing maps. This app supports these features:
• Zooming
• Routing
• Searching
• GPS/Cellular/Wi-Fi location.
The main benefit is that OpenStreetMaps have a better map precision and geographical coverage especially in Western Europe, Asia and etc. The trial mode has all features except routing.
This app is built on these projects: OpenStreetMaps, CloudMade, DeepEarth, Nominatim.
Updates:
Version 1.5: Speed up the map downloading process
Version 1.4: Improved multi-touch behavior, added “follow me”, added "route here from my current position", fixed some minor bugs.
Version 1.3: Added a locate me feature and fixed non-US locale issue
Version 1.2: Added a "Locate me" feature.
Version 1.1: Added a "run under lock screen".
Download Link: http://social.zune.net/redirect?type=phoneApp&id=099fddd0-5404-e011-9264-00237de2db9e
Hi tested the test version. Please some things:
Wishes:
- Add a button for center the map to your current position (like in bing maps)
- Add to the test version a way to test the routing (maybe limited to 10 km radius)
- Add a list for "Favourite Places" and a "Home Place" (needed for fast routing)
- Maybe you can get more input here: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Android
Corrections:
- If i search for the city "bingen" i get "Ooops something is going wrong. Please restart the application"
- Multiple finger zooming is a little bit slow (hangs)
- Scroll left right with fingers is also little bit slow (compared to ta maps / bing maps)
Conclusion:
Nice work. If i can test routing and it works well i will definetly buy it.
I would love to see your app getting in the future more to a nice little openstreetmap navigation app.
Hi,
thanks for this info its really great that you find a time to add some words on it.
"Locate me" feature will be added in next version right now Im testing it. I will look at scrolling and multitouching zooming.
Is this error message appear everytime you try to search something or only on word "bingen"? On my phone everything is okey with that query as I understand its a city in Germany=)
yes. its only with the word "bingen" and yes ... all the time dont know whats up there!
No problem with "bingen" on my end (paid app).
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Hi all,
I`ve got a user that have a potential error on samsung Omnia with routing. If somebody try to use this application on omnia please replay the feedback here. It would super usefull for me because I dont have such device on hands and cannot test it.
Thanks in advance,
Victor
Hi. I bought your app and will now test routing here in germany a bit.
What really would be a benefit for routing is:
- Map targeting to position your currently driving - walking like a compass.
- To add start position by searching the start (e.g. streetname) or "current position" and also to add end position by searching.
- Could you add something like "current speed" at top right corner?
Thanks for the "locate me" ... it works, but best to add a button or?
Btw. I'am a c# developer for 8 years now. Maybe i can help?
Sounds Good! Probably a silly question but If I am in usa, does the tool load the maps automatically? If I travel to south AMerica or Europe is it the same? Do we store the maps in the main memory or should we use data roaming? Thanks and happy new year
I'm wondering when google and ms stop there noncense and bring out google maps.
tested today routing with my car. really: it makes no sense having routing enabled and not moving the map with current location in centered mode. you do not really want the car driver to push every 10 seconds the "locate me" button, or?
another thing is to fade out the from/to location box on top if you start "routing" ...
Looking forward to hear anything new from your side for further updates.
Just bought your app because it looked promising - especially the routing.
Tested three smaller cities in Germany... each time the app crashes.
- Nordstemmen
- Wankheim
- Langenfeld
Maybe OpenStreetMap does not recognize the cities, i don't know.
But why does the app crashes because of that?
Routing:
Would love to have direct input of start and end.
Right now you can search a position, then point at it on the map and hope, it's correct.
Would also be nice if the map turns in the direction of driving (if this is possible)
Can the app run in the foreground all the time?
Rest is mentioned before.
At the monent the app is unuseable for routing.
I can imagine the hard work you had so far.
I hope you can fix the problems and make your app becomming a cool one.
Sorry for my bumpy english...
Nice job, looks promising. The routing feature is a good think that was missing ! But it needs some improvements. The most important to begin :
- realtime navigation : a step by step navigation, or at least (to begin) a realtime update of the position (like said oOp)...
- distance and time estimation when making a route, with options to choose shorter or faster path.
At the same moment it is on the same level as Bing maps:
1. Can locate me but does not want to use GPS
2. When routed and located does not update to nw position when one is moving
Those two things need to come in ASAP, a indicator when it s using GPS and when GSM location would help for now so I could see if GPS sucks or it does not use it. Second point needs attntion ASAP to make it usable. There was no Bing maps update mentioned for january so you are our last hope.
castrow said:
Sounds Good! Probably a silly question but If I am in usa, does the tool load the maps automatically? If I travel to south AMerica or Europe is it the same? Do we store the maps in the main memory or should we use data roaming? Thanks and happy new year
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In this version the application does not store data on the phone between launching its a limitation of WP7 SDK.
Prinzessin Horst said:
Just bought your app because it looked promising - especially the routing.
Tested three smaller cities in Germany... each time the app crashes.
- Nordstemmen
- Wankheim
- Langenfeld
Maybe OpenStreetMap does not recognize the cities, i don't know.
But why does the app crashes because of that?
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Thanks for comment.
I think you hit a known bug that was fixed in version 1.3 just update the app, uninstall and install it again.
Prinzessin Horst said:
Routing:
Would love to have direct input of start and end.
Right now you can search a position, then point at it on the map and hope, it's correct.
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Right now Im looking at this feature very close.
Prinzessin Horst said:
Would also be nice if the map turns in the direction of driving (if this is possible)
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You are talking about step by step navigation or only about feature that will rotate map to your driving direction?
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Can the app run in the foreground all the time?
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Wolfman017 said:
Nice job, looks promising. The routing feature is a good think that was missing ! But it needs some improvements. The most important to begin :
- realtime navigation : a step by step navigation, or at least (to begin) a realtime update of the position (like said oOp)...
- distance and time estimation when making a route, with options to choose shorter or faster path.
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Thanks for comments I will look at your wishes. Time and distance estimation with different options is not a difficult to implement.
Help to pay the JustAnotherMaps app
Gaploid said:
Thanks for comments I will look at your wishes. Time and distance estimation with different options is not a difficult to implement.
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Hi. Nice work, it really shows some POIs in Costa Rica, my country, not like Bing, it doesn't show a thing!
My big problem is that I can only download free apps from the marketplace or the trial versions. I REALLY, REALLY want to buy your app, also my girlfriend and 2 more friends that have WP7.
Please tell me if there is a way that I can pay you through Paypal and you give me some kind of workaround to install the full version. Please! I can't pay because my Credit Card needs to be from the USA, and it is from Costa Rica. Please help me, I am willing to pay twice of tha app's value.
Regards and please reply ASAP, I really need your app!
jaraya13 said:
Hi. Nice work, it really shows some POIs in Costa Rica, my country, not like Bing, it doesn't show a thing!
My big problem is that I can only download free apps from the marketplace or the trial versions. I REALLY, REALLY want to buy your app, also my girlfriend and 2 more friends that have WP7.
Please tell me if there is a way that I can pay you through Paypal and you give me some kind of workaround to install the full version. Please! I can't pay because my Credit Card needs to be from the USA, and it is from Costa Rica. Please help me, I am willing to pay twice of tha app's value.
Regards and please reply ASAP, I really need your app!
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Hi,
As I understand you can use your card even it was issued outside of USA. You need to change settings on your computer: Locale, Location, In browser. And you need change it on these sites too: account.live.com, profile.live.com.
Victor
Gaploid said:
Hi,
As I understand you can use your card even it was issued outside of USA. You need to change settings on your computer: Locale, Location, In browser. And you need change it on these sites too: account.live.com, profile.live.com.
Victor
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Hi Victor, thanks for the answer. I know you can use credit cards outside the US, but that is if you are in a country like UK where Marketplace is supported. In my country it is not supported (Costa Rica, Central America).
I have tried all the things you said but no luck. The only thing that works for me is setting everything to the US so at least I can download free apps.
Regards.
jaraya13 said:
Hi Victor, thanks for the answer. I know you can use credit cards outside the US, but that is if you are in a country like UK where Marketplace is supported. In my country it is not supported (Costa Rica, Central America).
I have tried all the things you said but no luck. The only thing that works for me is setting everything to the US so at least I can download free apps.
Regards.
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Its strange that you cannot buy the app. I`ve got a few friends in Russia that sucсessfully can buy apps even in Russia the phone is not supported like in Costa Rica.