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WP, especially WP8 got pretty got reviews. Why the hate ? Especially with Nokia phones where you get Nokia Maps for free. I don't know of any Android phone wher

by epsylon 13y ago

WP, especially WP8 got pretty got reviews. Why the hate ? Especially with Nokia phones where you get Nokia Maps for free. I don't know of any Android phone where you get an offline quality GPS for free.

300bps 13y ago
I went from iOS Google Maps->Apple Maps->iOS Google Maps on my iPhones. The Google Maps worked really well. The HERE Drive+ from Nokia Maps though is fantastic. One nice feature (of many)... it shows you the current speed limit on every road that you're on. It also shows you your current speed and it is dead-on accurate. It can even be set to give an alert if you exceed the speed limit by x MPH. Hands down, the built-in Lumia 928 maps application is better than any maps application I ever used on any of my three iPhones.
- ctruzzi 13y ago
  That's the one part I don't like about it but that's because I go 5-15MPH over the speed limit at all times.
  - barista 13y ago
    You can always turn that speed warning off if it bothers you.
    - zimpenfish 13y ago
      They could also not be a dick and stick to the speed limit.
  - tommis 13y ago
    you can adjust the limit at which point it alerts you. You can set when the alert will go off area that have below 80km/h speed and those with speed over 80km/h. Mine is set to ping on 15km/h+ on the slower areas and 18km/h+over on the higher.
- untog 13y ago
  Maps app or Driving Navigation app? Because they're extremely different use cases. My experience with Nokia Maps was very poor, but I don't need to drive, so never got to try that out.
  - TheAnimus 13y ago
    >My experience with Nokia Maps was very poor, but I don't need to drive, so never got to try that out. I'm amazed by that. In London the mapping is top notch, it has pedestrian paths and such which gmaps is missing. However for Soho where bars come and go in weeks, its often out of date for POIs. But as normally if I'm in a place that changes often, I'll have data, that isn't an issue (one can always fall back to gmaps data). But outside of London Nokia maps are hands down the best I've found. This holds true in the countryside of England, France, Spain, Italy, Morocco, Vietnam... I mean in the middle of nowhere Vietnam, I've good offline all the directions I need to my cycling. Amazing, gmaps didn't even have a road there, and bing, well lets not talk about bing maps. The only one that comes close is the Open Street Map project. But they lack POIs pretty much completely. On my motorbike in Thailand, I had not just Fuel places shown, but also coffee places. With no mobile phone signal... Whilst I use windows phone as my primary device, I have some uses (SkyDemon) that require me to have an Android too, but I will say that the Nokia mapping is so bloody good, I bought a 720 (as in the UK they were £120 off contract!) for a friend as a travel phone, only for the mapping. However, I don't use it when driving in the UK, because it doesn't have 'accident black spot warnings' or speed trap locations.
- seanmcdirmid 13y ago
  I don't drive, I mean, most people don't drive in my market....and that's where I'm supposed to look for maps on my 920?
  - jimueller 13y ago
    HERE is a suite of applications.HERE Maps is ... maps, HERE Drive is the GPS/NAV app, and HERE Transit is public transportation.
    - seanmcdirmid 13y ago
      And none of them work! I mean, my phone is locked to the Chinese App Store, you'd think the built in apps would at least work here also. Also, who the hell decided to give a bunch of apps the same prefix in an alphabetically ordered list?
      - blub 13y ago
        Most GPS apps are broken there due to gov rules, you'd have better luck buying a local cheap GPS device.

by epsylon 13y ago

300bps 13y ago

I went from iOS Google Maps->Apple Maps->iOS Google Maps on my iPhones. The Google Maps worked really well. The HERE Drive+ from Nokia Maps though is fantastic. One nice feature (of many)... it shows you the current speed limit on every road that you're on. It also shows you your current speed and it is dead-on accurate. It can even be set to give an alert if you exceed the speed limit by x MPH. Hands down, the built-in Lumia 928 maps application is better than any maps application I ever used on any of my three iPhones.

ctruzzi 13y ago
That's the one part I don't like about it but that's because I go 5-15MPH over the speed limit at all times.
- barista 13y ago
  You can always turn that speed warning off if it bothers you.
  - zimpenfish 13y ago
    They could also not be a dick and stick to the speed limit.
- tommis 13y ago
  you can adjust the limit at which point it alerts you. You can set when the alert will go off area that have below 80km/h speed and those with speed over 80km/h. Mine is set to ping on 15km/h+ on the slower areas and 18km/h+over on the higher.
untog 13y ago
Maps app or Driving Navigation app? Because they're extremely different use cases. My experience with Nokia Maps was very poor, but I don't need to drive, so never got to try that out.
- TheAnimus 13y ago
  >My experience with Nokia Maps was very poor, but I don't need to drive, so never got to try that out. I'm amazed by that. In London the mapping is top notch, it has pedestrian paths and such which gmaps is missing. However for Soho where bars come and go in weeks, its often out of date for POIs. But as normally if I'm in a place that changes often, I'll have data, that isn't an issue (one can always fall back to gmaps data). But outside of London Nokia maps are hands down the best I've found. This holds true in the countryside of England, France, Spain, Italy, Morocco, Vietnam... I mean in the middle of nowhere Vietnam, I've good offline all the directions I need to my cycling. Amazing, gmaps didn't even have a road there, and bing, well lets not talk about bing maps. The only one that comes close is the Open Street Map project. But they lack POIs pretty much completely. On my motorbike in Thailand, I had not just Fuel places shown, but also coffee places. With no mobile phone signal... Whilst I use windows phone as my primary device, I have some uses (SkyDemon) that require me to have an Android too, but I will say that the Nokia mapping is so bloody good, I bought a 720 (as in the UK they were £120 off contract!) for a friend as a travel phone, only for the mapping. However, I don't use it when driving in the UK, because it doesn't have 'accident black spot warnings' or speed trap locations.
seanmcdirmid 13y ago
I don't drive, I mean, most people don't drive in my market....and that's where I'm supposed to look for maps on my 920?
- jimueller 13y ago
  HERE is a suite of applications.HERE Maps is ... maps, HERE Drive is the GPS/NAV app, and HERE Transit is public transportation.
  - seanmcdirmid 13y ago
    And none of them work! I mean, my phone is locked to the Chinese App Store, you'd think the built in apps would at least work here also. Also, who the hell decided to give a bunch of apps the same prefix in an alphabetically ordered list?
    - blub 13y ago
      Most GPS apps are broken there due to gov rules, you'd have better luck buying a local cheap GPS device.