Comments on: App Store – Real GPS turn by turn navigation by G-Map

By: kauffman

kauffman — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 16:54:06 +0000

i agree with Erik

By: Erik

Erik — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 22:04:26 +0000

And not to forget, of course it’s useful that the maps are downloaded, but still it only makes it a version of google maps with downloaded maps. Not much more.

By: Erik

Erik — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:58:54 +0000

Dragos, by your definition, the iPhone already has turn-by-turn navigation then.

I’ve looked through the G-map site, they don’t mention “turn-by-turn” anywhere.

If their program works like Google maps directions, but automatically updates the next instruction depending on where you are (as well as enlarge the text) then I would find it very useful. But I can’t even find a sample of that on their site.

Can you?

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By: dragos

dragos — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:31:14 +0000

Erik, please make sure you understand plain English (turn-by-turn can be synonym with directions): “G-Map is a stand-alone electronic map. So once it’s downloaded, you can freely search your location and get directions without an internet connection, anytime, anywhere, even when you’re on the move. ”
My 2c.

By: Pyri

Pyri — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:31:20 +0000

I don’t care if its $50.00 or $100.00, I’m freakin’ buying it. I have this feeling that Apple will never add “true” GPS to their FW updates, instead they’ll just modify it. The selling point for this application isn’t just the turn-by-turn, its the downloaded maps. If you check out the developer’s website (where it says “More Information” in the above post), you can view the “coverage areas” of the downloaded maps. There’s three choices: U.S.West, U.S,East, and plain ‘ol North America. Yeah, the whole friggin’ country. I don’t care how big the file is, or how long it takes to download something that incredibly massive, but I’m doing it. To be honest, I’d chose something like this over an Apple addition to Google Maps just for the mere fact that Google Maps runs off of the GPS signal, ergo, when you are driving cross country or in dead zones, the GPS marker is there, but the map itself is the “cannot find signal” grid bullcrap. You can’t really blame Apple or Google, that’s just how the program works. If it utilizes the signal for the map retrieval, then it’ll depend on the signal. I’m just glad the website says that its available mid December. I hate seeing announcements and getting all excited, then looking at the small print and have it saying “available in a year” or something like that.

By: Carlos Martins

Carlos Martins — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 10:23:46 +0000

I was betting TomTom would be the first to get this to market… Guess I was wrong. :)

By: Erik

Erik — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 09:35:05 +0000

Where does it say that it’s turn-by-turn GPS?

Nowhere. Because it’s not.

It’s basically the same as downloaded Google maps. No “Turn right at the next intersection”.