Nokia reveals new map app called HERE

+1 for multi platform support Nokia!

Heading in the right direction, definitely a good move.
 
Talk about selling the family silver! I thought this was to be their USP. It certainly doesn't show much faith in their WP offering that they acknowledge that they will not get critical mass to keep their mapping and location data current with WPs future market share.
 
Nokia Maps have always been the best map and navigation software in the world. It is the one thing I miss the most since moving to Android.
 
Chingha said:
Talk about selling the family silver! I thought this was to be their USP. It certainly doesn't show much faith in their WP offering that they acknowledge that they will not get critical mass to keep their mapping and location data current with WPs future market share.
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Its all a gamble, even with all the WP8 fanbois garble about how good it is.
The reverse would be great if they get lots of Lumia sales and as a bonus they receive revenue from other platforms.

But I highly doubt people in Russia and China will jump on WP8 with its highly restrictive environment.

IMO they are just opening more opportunities.
 
Rouxenator said:
Because no other navigation apps comes close to its accuracy, speed, ease of use and features.
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I would have to agree with this. Though Google maps are great, Nokia maps just seem a little more accurate. (Compared my S2 to a friend's Lumia 900)
 
Nokia Maps are updated more frequently and not based on just filling in roads from aerial imagery. Their map application is very fast, considering the hardware it runs on, and offers full off-line map support. They do navigation with street names in all languages you like, even Afrikaans. It knows the speed limits of all roads and alerts you when you exceed it, it knows which exits to take at a circle, it knows which lanes can turn where at intersections.

If you are used to Nokia Maps then not even a dedicated GPS unit can come close to its convenience. I just op Nokia does the same thing they did with Sports-Tracker, shift it into a separate company and release it on all platforms.
 
Call me a skeptic.

I haven't seen anything that was inaccurate about google maps while I was using it, so I'll need some proof of that (from personal use)

As a developer I found the API for google maps way better. I can easily integrate it into my app and even use its activities to handle special event data.

No other navigation apps comes close to its accuracy, speed, ease of use and features. :D
 
As a developer Google Maps API is pretty good indeed, then again so is AfriGIS which is my preference. As a navigation solution nobody does it as good as Nokia does.
 
I am not sure how Google maps works but I like the street view bit of it. But, now that Nokia (Navteq) has 3D too (i.e. street view like features) it is now definately on par if not better than Google at every turn.

Nokia recently highlighted the fact that it has better coverage worldwide than Google with about 33% more coverage. We may be happy with Google here in SA because it covers every street corner, but head up north and into places like Ouagadougu and you will have no use for it.

The sad thing is that the Here maps seem to be data intensive and actually do not work on my computer saying I need a software updated or my computer has an old processing chip or something like that - try it out here on www.here.com.
 
Nokia's key advantage in mapping:

As I described last month, Google has spent literally tens of thousands of person-hours creating its maps. I argued that no other company could beat Google at this game, which turned out to be my most controversial assertion. People pointed out that while Google's driven 5 million miles in Street View cars, UPS, not to mention all the other logistics companies, drives 3.3 billion miles a year. Whoever had access to these other datasets might be in the mapping (cough) driver's seat.

Well, it turns out that Nokia is the company that receives data from many commercial fleets including FedEx, the company's senior VP of Location Content, Cliff Fox, told me.
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http://www.theatlantic.com/technolo...maps-than-apple-and-maybe-even-google/263150/
 
Rouxenator said:
Nokia Maps have always been the best map and navigation software in the world. It is the one thing I miss the most since moving to Android.
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Have to agree there. The voice guidance was better on my old N79 than on my current droid - quicker, warned me about turn-offs at the right time and proper lane indications. If I can get it now on the proper touch screen, it will be awesome.
 
Rouxenator said:
As a developer Google Maps API is pretty good indeed, then again so is AfriGIS which is my preference. As a navigation solution nobody does it as good as Nokia does.
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Google has a great API, yes - but the AfriGIS data is well know in the industry as being dodgy at best - I know of half a dozen issues a few km around where I life - traffic circles not meeting up, roads joining that shouldn't join, and one residential development marked as roads, which gives a false route and tries to route you through it. My business does a lot of mapping work, and TomTom/Navteq are known to be "navigation quality", and AfriGIS isn't. Obviously as with all products, it'll be more accurate in some places than others, but in Durban & suburbs, AfriGIS is piss poor.
 
Rouxenator said:
A small example of Google Maps not being accurate
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Is that where you live? Do you have trouble navigating over there? Also, I don't understand the picture, you have circled something wrong there?
 
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