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> Here Maps is also going thru updates and is working better than before. Its a good map. Here Maps is not a good map: Go to here.com. Search for "東京" (Tokyo
by snogglethorpe 13y ago
> Here Maps is also going thru updates and is working better than before. Its a good map.
Here Maps is not a good map:
Go to here.com. Search for "東京" (Tokyo). It jumps to ... Beijing. ><
Ok, try using "tokyo" instead. This time it actually jumps to Tokyo. Zoom in to see what's around ... and ... oh wait, there's essentially no content. According to here.com, Tokyo has no buildings and only 5-6 roads in the entire city. For Nokia, one of the biggest and most important cities in the entire world is basically an empty featureless plain.
I'm not exaggerating, look for yourself:
http://here.com/35.6798245,139.7395558,15,0,0,normal.day http://here.com/35.6798245,139.7395558,15,0,0,normal.day
Essentially unusable. Good choice Mozilla!
[It shows a few rail lines too (though a very small fraction of those that actually exist), but when I zoomed in I realized that they're not located correctly relative to the other few landmarks that are shown... ><]
- hmsimha 13y agoThere's absolutely no reason the default map for ffOS shouldn't be powered by OpenStreetMaps
- sbuk 13y agoThis. Great point! "Firefox OS was created with the following main objectives: - Create a Free and Open mobile source operating that is developed in the open." If the goal is to be completely open, why use closed-source mapping at all, including Googles offering, when a good open equivalent exists?