I think the maps are only part of the deal here, and google is failing on the most important aspect: actually planning a useful route. Have not used the new ap

I think the maps are only part of the deal here, and google is failing on the most important aspect: actually planning a useful route. Have not used the new app. but the current version of Google maps on my BB has a routing algorithm which simply sucks eggs... I can't tell you how many times I've tried to use the directions Google provided on my BB, only to revert to my TomTom. The latter generally provides better directions and has blazingly fast recalcs when I veer off the designated route. (More recently I've discovered Goviko, free-ish, which works better than my TomTom because it will take live delays ahead into account when planning my trip, but sucks the life out of my BB faster than a ... well you know.)