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I have been searching all overr and I'm yet to see am amswer for my question? So I've cdcided to post it on the best site for htc phones. is there a way aside from the app, Pinpoint to show where you are? I mean like what I want to do is have google maps app be able to save my location and adress using the gps and allow me to save it to a contact so that this way next time I want to get to my aunts house for example I can just go to her info click adress and voila. It has a route sshowing me the route.
A strange sense of deja vu washed over me reading this, I was thinking exactly the same thing a few hours ago.
Being able to save GPS information for contacts would be something of great importance considering the devices capabilities, apps like AndNav2 could then use contact GPS co-ordinates for quick navigation, the same could be said of google maps and other applications that use GPS information.
Ageless Stranger said:
Being able to save GPS information for contacts would be something of great importance considering the devices capabilities, apps like AndNav2 could then use contact GPS co-ordinates for quick navigation, the same could be said of google maps and other applications that use GPS information.
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Can't you just save an address to the contact and then click on get directions? Or does the location have no street address?
Well yeaah that too. I was thinking of that but the thing is, my cousins house doesn't show up through maps. But it tells me the coordinates using GPS and yeeah it can still give me directions like that. Soo yeah, its sort of a half and half.
For locations without street addresses, you can still map them using lat/long coordinates. Just enter the coordinates into the address field as x,y. For example, 1600 Pennsylvania Ave would be entered as 38.89767967065576, -77.03656196594238
The My Maps Editor application might be of some use too. Basically it lets you display and edit custom maps (which means overlaid graphics on actual google maps) on the G1. Since these overlays are static, it won't route you from an arbitrary location. However if you want to see a hiking path from say a fixed street address out to a lake in the middle of the woods, this could help.
http://googlemobile.blogspot.com/2008/12/your-maps-in-your-hands-for-holidays.html
jashsu said:
Can't you just save an address to the contact and then click on get directions? Or does the location have no street address?
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AndNav2 uses OpenStreetMap for it's navigation and metadata retrieval, and currently the UK post code search is limited to a few post codes (Zip codes). Most of my contacts won't show up. It will get better in time.....
Thanks Jashsu. Really, Like That really does help and is a very good substittue for an app. But yet another, question, Is It just my phone or Is it Google Maps, THat has a bug, When i know im home and i just want to mess around and activate gps and see my location. And it shows me some where 20 blocks away, lol i hate that!!!!
Elloco305 said:
Thanks Jashsu. Really, Like That really does help and is a very good substittue for an app. But yet another, question, Is It just my phone or Is it Google Maps, THat has a bug, When i know im home and i just want to mess around and activate gps and see my location. And it shows me some where 20 blocks away, lol i hate that!!!!
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it's a google maps issue, which really screws with me when tryin to use Locale. i had a situation set to put my phone on silent if it is between 2 am and 12 pm AND i am at home, but since it thinks i'm about 1/4 mi away it hasn't worked yet.
tubaking182 said:
it's a google maps issue, which really screws with me when tryin to use Locale. i had a situation set to put my phone on silent if it is between 2 am and 12 pm AND i am at home, but since it thinks i'm about 1/4 mi away it hasn't worked yet.
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The more powered off the gps is when you attempt to access it (and also the worse your direct view of the sky is) then the longer it will take to get a good gps lock. If you habitually turn the gps function off (or you have a program that automatically does it) then every time you turn the gps on, it has to perform a cold start. This means it will take between one and five minutes to get a bead, depending on the number of satellites your phone can see at the time.
If you use gps often then don't turn it off. The amount of power saved by fully unpowering the chipset is not worth the amount of power it consumes fully cold starting every time you need it (not to mention the time wasted waiting for it to get a bead).
If you used the gps function and then left the gps-using application or put the phone into standby, the gps chipset remains in standby. The next time you access the gps, it will be considered a warm start and will take between 1-30 seconds, depending on various factors.
When I'm driving and Google Maps shows my currently location, as I move out of the area, the GPS arrow moves too, but the area map does not move. Is it supposed to be like this?
How can I let the Google Maps automatically load new area maps wherever the GPS spots my location (just like a stand-alone GPS unit) ?
Thanks.
click on MENU and make sure the USE GPS is checked...
Yes, it's checked. That's how I know the GPS is in use, initialized, and the my current location (represented by an arrow) is present. As I drive away, the arrow moves out of the frame but the map does not change. It stays put. I have to manually scroll in the directly I'm headed just to reload the map of my current location
Hit the blue little dot in the lower right?
open your keyboard and press 0 (number)
Yup, that's seems to be the only "manual" way to do it. I was hoping it would recenter the my GPS location "automatically", without having to press on the blue dot, opening up the keyboard to press "0", or to scroll and flip through the screen.
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Yup, that's seems to be the only "manual" way to do it. I was hoping it would recenter the my GPS location "automatically", without having to press on the blue dot, opening up the keyboard to press "0", or to scroll and flip through the screen.
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If I hit the blue button on mine, the map gets centred on GPS and it starts tracking again.
Very occasionally it stops tracking (possibly because it loses the GPS signal?), but hitting the blue button always starts it tracking again.
uninstall it and download the latest version with the latitude locate feature, mine was doing it and it works now
That's exactly what I did and it's fixed now. What's neat is that when my arrow is centered and Google Map is moving with me, when I scroll in the direction I want to see ahead, it stops tracking. This gives me the liberty to scroll ahead in any direction I want, zoom in, out, and pan. Then when I want to see where I'm currently at, I just hit the blue dot and it continues to track me again. The area map moves with me.
Now, if only we can get Google Map to NOT point North all the time so that I don't have to hold my Fuze upside down if I'm heading south
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When I'm driving and Google Maps shows my currently location, as I move out of the area, the GPS arrow moves too, but the area map does not move. Is it supposed to be like this?
How can I let the Google Maps automatically load new area maps wherever the GPS spots my location (just like a stand-alone GPS unit) ?
Thanks.
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Turn off A-GPS and it should work. My friend had the same issue. I think it has to do with the stock AT&T rom not having an A-GPS server linked.
variablex said:
Turn off A-GPS and it should work. My friend had the same issue. I think it has to do with the stock AT&T rom not having an A-GPS server linked.
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It works now. It didn't work with the "leaked" (test) AT&T ROM I was using. I'm using the EnergyROM now and it works just fine.
While waiting this morning on something, I sketched up a tool to quickly mark spots you're at. Unlike regular GPS loggers, it just tags and saves locations (I frequently need something like this on bike tours).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tjq9WiGEuGA (outdated)
http://social.zune.net/redirect?type=phoneApp&id=ee9c5dae-9fea-df11-9264-00237de2db9e
Tom Servo said:
While waiting this morning on something, I sketched up a tool to quickly mark spots you're at. Unlike regular GPS loggers, it just tags and saves locations (I frequently need something like this on bike tours).
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tjq9WiGEuGA
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Looks good. May I suggest enabling the correction features on the keyboard in the Name textbox. (Change the InputScope property)
Sure, why not.
Looks pretty handy.
Is there a way to get directions to the saved spot in bing maps?
Not sure. Trying to invoke the installed Bing Maps with a target location isn't something I thought of or know if it's possible (I figure it should be).
Added some functionality. And I figured, why not put that silly EOS 550D of mine to use, instead of capturing the emulator. Praise my girly hands.
http://youtu.be/mpUQUWRyyJs
Marketplace has already v1.0, without description field and photos.
Giving it another look. Hitting the marketplace soon.
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Looks really nice and useful.
What methods are there for exporting that data? Sharing via e-mail? SMS? Would be nice if it could also be exported directly to Bing Maps (My Places) or Google Maps (Starred), if even possible. Or even if you could import locations from those services.
Also, is saving locations based on GPS only? Or can you manually input and specify the location on a map (I suppose it'd be like dragging and dropping a pin on a map and saving that location)?
-sigh- if only all Windows Phone 7 developers could do UI like you seem to be capable of doing.
I haven't thought much of exporting yet, altho I have something on my mind. I figure exporting all of it in a KML via e-mail might be an idea, but if there are a lot of photos, it'd end up in a huge package, tho.
Locations are purely GPS based right now.
Hi. This looks nice. Shame there's no trial though. Does it use Bing maps for the map images or Google maps (or another service)?
Thanks
Bing maps. I could make it use a different tile source, but I'm not sure how Google feels about it, since it's against their ToS.
Just bought this app, not sure what I'll use it for but it looks great!
The update with the prettified UI has been submitted since a few days and is in testing apparently, but nothing happened as of now. The other versions passed testing rather quickly, this is mostly an UI update only, not sure why it's stuck in limbo.
Submitted an update today, probably available in a day or two.
Added a trial mode, allowing marking up to 5 spots. Added an options dialog to change GPS behaviour in background as well as changing distance units (kinda required, since it was Meters up until now and I sold the most to the US). And pinpoints in the full map are clickable now.
Version 1.4:
- Does resolve coordinates to addresses using the Bing SOAP webservice now. Happens retroactively on existing spots.
- Ability to send your current location to someone else via SMS and E-mail. Retrieves the actual address if the GPS accuracy becomes better than 150m. Adds a Google Maps link to the message pointing to the coordinates.
- Can also send stored locations, but formats them like current location messages thanks to late night coding dizzyness.
http://social.zune.net/redirect?type=phoneApp&id=ee9c5dae-9fea-df11-9264-00237de2db9e
Version 1.5:
- Can choose now, what service to use to create map links in SMS/E-mails (Bing, Google, OSM). Note: Bing doesn't have a mobile map site. If the receiving mobile gets a Bing link and identifies as smartphone to the website, Bing will mess it up and show a search site.
- Can save photos to the pictures hub now.
- Alternative coordinate formats. DMS, UTM and MGRS (both military). North and south poles aren't covered in the military ones. Examples:
Regular/Decimal: 50.71625 - 6.01385
DMS (Degrees, Minutes, Seconds): 50°42'59"N 6°00'50"E
UTM: 32 U 289206 5622525
MGRS: 32UKB8920622525
Version 1.6 somewhen in a few weeks will limit sending adhoc locations. Currently, it's unlimited in trial.
1.6 is out. It was held up a long time with certification not pleased with the privacy policies I kept writing up, after being required one out of the blue.
Anyway:
- Distance math is fixed. It was off by half, no one apart two people seemed to have noticed.
- Option to add photos from the phone' library to locations as option in the menu roll-up.
Upcoming:
- Google and OSM image data as alternative options. (Works already)
- Custom pinpointing of a location on a map.
Hi just wanted to know if the Hd 7 has navigation like turn by turn with voice like google android..
I went to maps but it only seems to show direction to destination.
no turn by turn and no navigation , unless i am not doing something, I really like this feature in the android phones so hope they do it on windows
I do have a htc hero so dont tell me go by an android phone
The only one I know if is TeleNav, and its $10 a month.
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Hi just wanted to know if the Hd 7 has navigation like turn by turn with voice like google android..
I went to maps but it only seems to show direction to destination.
no turn by turn and no navigation , unless i am not doing something, I really like this feature in the android phones so hope they do it on windows
I do have a htc hero so dont tell me go by an android phone
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The only app so far that I have seen that does verbal turn by turn navigation is the TeleNav app, but I really don't want to pay $10 a month for that, and I still have a regual GPS in the car for now, although it does need new maps it work for the time being.
As for turn by turn without verbal cues there are a few ways to accomplish this, one is Bing maps, it will give you turn by turn directions. Also you can create tiles for internet sites like Mapquest, and Google Maps, just open the site in your browser and go to the get directions page, then what I have done is zoom into the logo on the page with the name and in the lower right corner tap the three dots and a menu will appear that gives you the option to "pin to start" which then creates a tile on your start page that links directly to that page and the image on the tile is the zoomed image of the webpage's title where you zoomed in.
Hopefully in the coming months there will be more option for navigation apps, and verbal turn by turn, the OS is still very new and everyday there seem to be many new apps. Time and patience will tell.
T-Mobile / Telekom has Navigon select for free
Does anyone know if it is possible to save a waypoint from the Maps screen (either Google Maps or Waze) "on-the-fly" w/o disconnecting my phone from my head unit? For example, I'm on a very rural road and I come across a place like a roadside farmer's stand or a scenic view, etc and I want to save this spot as a waypoint to either come back to or share it with friends. In my old Garmin GPS all I had to do was tap my screen and I got the option to save a location as a waypoint. I would select that option and then give it a name - easy peasy. I can't seem to be able to do this in Maps in AA. This seems like it should be a very basic thing for any Maps/GPS thing to do. Does anyone have any insight on this? Thanks.
Might be obvious... Long touch doesn't work?
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