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Nov 11

Google Maps for Mobile GPS

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I am glad to see GPS support has been added to Google Maps for Mobile.

I have been using Google Maps on my phone for directions, and have been very happy with it. The only issues have been:

  • No preloading: You walk through the directions by hitting next (3). Since the network is still slow, it takes awhile to load the map fragments, so if you have a bunch of small, quick directions you can get behind. This means that my human pattern is too: get directions, go through them all letting each step load the full image panes into the cache. I wish I could tell it to preload the entire route
  • Know where I am: This has now been solved. Now there is no need to flip back and forth, and instead a more gradual experience will kick in which will be a lot easier to understand

2 Responses to “Google Maps for Mobile GPS”

  1. mostafa Says:

    i want to make a mobile application using java j2me.
    but i have a problem in loading a map object as a .dll file in the j2me application .
    i want to load it as a map not as an image beceause map object in the desktop application has alot of features on the map.
    thanks in advance

  2. RASHED Says:

    hi id like to have you oprograme of mobile GPS

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