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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!
draxredd said:
is the short GPS timeout fixed ?
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Seems they did
hguiraud said:
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
ofiaich said:
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.
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 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
Maybe it's because I live in New England, where weather is all important, but I find the Weather tab on the Fuze to be totally lame. I'm used to running WeatherPanel on my Tilt. I'm looking for instant access to detailed current conditions, forecasts, temps, charts, and radar and satellite images that I can put in motion. All of which I had direct access to on my Today screen via WeatherPanel, which would update in the background. On the Fuze, I get a static picture and temp (which doesn't seem to update on its own), and a link to an AccuWeather web site that never loads any info for my location.
I've searched all over; is there any better weather functionality to be used with the Weather tab in TF3D? To I have to trash TF3D and go back to a Today screen to get better weather info?
Pocket Weather is probably the most advanced available. I live in New England as well and it is pretty good.
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Pocket Weather is probably the most advanced available. I live in New England as well and it is pretty good.
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Will Pocket Weather work on the Fuze as a substitute under the Weather tab in TF3D? Or as an added tab? I looked at it and I came away with the impression its a Today screen plug-in, like WeatherPanel, and would not interface with TF3D on the Fuze.
Weather
I too, abandoned TouchFlo and went back to my SPB Plus and Shell, and SPB weather. It was cute having a windshield wiper in the rain, but I'd rather have function over being nice to look at. Hence, no iPhone.
So, I've been using SPB weather, doesn't do maps, but does do fairly accurate forecasting. And since I travel a lot it keeps many cities a few clicks away.
James
Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't the page update automatically if you leave "data connect" on all the time? Mine seamed to always be updated whenever I looked at the tab with this setup.
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I too, abandoned TouchFlo and went back to my SPB Plus and Shell, and SPB weather. It was cute having a windshield wiper in the rain, but I'd rather have function over being nice to look at. Hence, no iPhone.
So, I've been using SPB weather, doesn't do maps, but does do fairly accurate forecasting. And since I travel a lot it keeps many cities a few clicks away.
James
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That's what I was afraid of, there is no way to improve the functionality of the Weather tab. Which then leaves me facing the decision:if I'm not going to use TF3D to go back to Today screen with WeatherPanel plug-in, then will I return by Fuze and go back to my Tilt?
I don't know what you're talking about, i have my device set to update automatically and my weather updates regularly. You can make it update manually as well. SPB only shows the highs/lows for the day doesn't it?
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I don't know what you're talking about
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SPB Weather
For the most part SPB does show hi's and low's and some detail on today and tomorrow, but no maps or anything like that, which is all I need when I am mobile. If I need a meterological lesson, I'll pop on the weather channel.
I just wish there was a way to access the "app" for the weather screen in the touch flo, b/c the weather feature was some nice eye candy. And your right most of the weather apps, built-in or 3rd party can update automatically.
JWB
www.weather.com saves a cookie so you get all that super crazy info as soon as the page loads up. Just a though.
I've got a persistent data connetion too, and usually as soon as i switch to one of the cities in the tf3d weather, it updates right then.
My issue is the cities, or lack of some. I'm in new brunswick, canada, and "fredericton, nb" is not listed, but 'moncton, nb' and 'saint john, nb' are. I saw a couple posts about adding new cities using some sql apps & db inserts - is that how this one is updated? the last weather app i used , had an xml file I could update with codes from accuweather.com.
has anyone updated their listed cities? if so, how involved was it?
tks,
dwight.
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I've got a persistent data connetion too, and usually as soon as i switch to one of the cities in the tf3d weather, it updates right then.
My issue is the cities, or lack of some. I'm in new brunswick, canada, and "fredericton, nb" is not listed, but 'moncton, nb' and 'saint john, nb' are. I saw a couple posts about adding new cities using some sql apps & db inserts - is that how this one is updated? the last weather app i used , had an xml file I could update with codes from accuweather.com.
has anyone updated their listed cities? if so, how involved was it?
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dwight.
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its actually pretty simple.
do a search for "weather database editor" thats the app that'll solve all ur problems and give u a basic walkthru on how to update ur cities.
Late,
Jstar
TF3D Diamond, Weather After Hard Reset
I have something different going on. Following a hard reset, my weather add-cities has changed. United States used to be at the top of the country list, and now it's clear down in the U's. Does the aforementioned database editor have anything to fix that? Otherwise, I don't need to edit anything, liking it as is. Thanks in advance!
Weather and CFNET 3.5
I had to get a new fuze due to a bad radio in the old one. I had the weather database and CFNET 3.5 installed on the old and working. However, on the new I have forgotten how to get the apps to use CFNET 3.5 and not the older version.
HELP ME.
I know I navigated to one of the apps and it was in a drop down but for the life of me I can not remember which one.
Thanks!
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I had to get a new fuze due to a bad radio in the old one. I had the weather database and CFNET 3.5 installed on the old and working. However, on the new I have forgotten how to get the apps to use CFNET 3.5 and not the older version.
HELP ME.
I know I navigated to one of the apps and it was in a drop down but for the life of me I can not remember which one.
Thanks!
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Install .Net Configuration. See attached cab below.
Once installed, go to the 'Device Policy' tab and select version 3.5. Select 'Apply' then 'OK'.
also you can use 2nd today you dont have to abandon tf3d entirely
Thanks!! I even had that on my memory card. Could not remember what it was. HOWEVER, I still get a message that "installation of weatherdatabaseEditor 1.2.CAB was unsuccessful. Any thoughts?
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Thanks!! I even had that on my memory card. Could not remember what it was. HOWEVER, I still get a message that "installation of weatherdatabaseEditor 1.2.CAB was unsuccessful. Any thoughts?
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Are you running a custom ROM? How about custom theme? I've noticed that 1.2 sometimes has conflicts with these. Try 1.1 Modified instead.
dwightery said:
I've got a persistent data connetion too, and usually as soon as i switch to one of the cities in the tf3d weather, it updates right then.
My issue is the cities, or lack of some. I'm in new brunswick, canada, and "fredericton, nb" is not listed, but 'moncton, nb' and 'saint john, nb' are. I saw a couple posts about adding new cities using some sql apps & db inserts - is that how this one is updated? the last weather app i used , had an xml file I could update with codes from accuweather.com.
has anyone updated their listed cities? if so, how involved was it?
tks,
dwight.
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it only update if you have wifi or data connection. It doesn't save any cache. I hate Manila Weather for this reason. It doesn't download a few hr in advance....
is it possible to change the tab to something else? like pocket weather?
I'm from Montreal
Don't have any custom rom. It is the stock ATT rom. I will try 1.1 and let you know.
I just downloaded / installed live search mobile, and noticed on the maps, no matter how much you zoom in, you cannot read the street names very well because they are rendered so small. This is even at maximum zoom.
Any suggestions or solutions?
Besides get glasses
I have the same complaint. I can read the directions part just fine, but not any of the street names.
Ditto. There are a few threads on this now, and none of them so far have any answers. Street name font size is too small, unreadable, in both Google Maps and Live Search Mobile on the Fuze / Raphael / Touch Pro.
Send feedback! Complain to the people who can actually do something!
[email protected]
I did em the LS team, but kudos for posting that e-mail address. I hope anyone else who's having this issue with the Fuze and Live Search will e-mail them too. LS for VGA! ;-)
Not sure what you mean
I have WLS version 3.5.8198.0 on my Fuze, and when I'm zoomed down to the street level on a map, the street names are perfectly clear. Remarkably so, in fact. Do you have this version?
I can zoom in all the way, but as soon as the screen is rendered, the text is WAY to small to read. It is just not displaying properly for VGA resolution.
Text is too small for me too.
Its perfectly readable but NOT WHEN DRIVING!
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I have WLS version 3.5.8198.0 on my Fuze, and when I'm zoomed down to the street level on a map, the street names are perfectly clear. Remarkably so, in fact. Do you have this version?
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Yes. Sorry, I should've specified the version. I too am using WLS version 3.5.8198.0 on the Fuze. Yes, the fonts are stunningly clear; that's the new 480x640 VGA screen for ya! Love it. It's great, actually, when you're viewing the map zoomed out, i.e. for an entire county or state; much more detail than Google Maps. But when you zoom in, the fonts stay at the same microscopic 4-point size. So, impossible to read while driving -- certainly if the phone's clipped to the dashboard, a foot or two away. And there's no need for the fonts to be so tiny at full zoom; the screen's basically empty. It should be a simple fix; the street-name font size should increase as you zoom in. I've e-mailed the WLS team to this effect, and encourage anyone else who's interested to do so too; their address is:
[email protected]
use the new Google maps... its has the street view feature which is amazing!!!!! and now supports vga..... using the romeos 1.51b, i have no gps lag at all!!!! its running perfect... all did was go into setting in Google map, and manually select gps com 4.. and set the baud to 215000 or something like that... the highest one
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use the new Google maps... its has the street view feature which is amazing!!!!! and now supports vga..... using the romeos 1.51b, i have no gps lag at all!!!! its running perfect... all did was go into setting in Google map, and manually select gps com 4.. and set the baud to 215000 or something like that... the highest one
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Google Maps has the same microscopic font issue. Though thanks for informing me of the street view update. WTF is with google not auto-informing users of updates? There is also no one step update function. Google is really dropping the ball lately. Apparently they are more interested in drinking wheat grass juice than they are at making their apps easy to use.