Hi,
I have a problem displaying the map in Google Maps.
For 2 devices (mobile Xiaomi and Android car radio) the map is displayed to me only as follows : https://screenshot.cz/62O1K/
That is, the current position can be seen, but not the map.
In addition, when I look for something, the wheel spins and nothing. Does anyone have any idea what this might be? Thanks
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How can the developer of Google Maps not have a compass and auto rotation of maps on the Hero version when other apps are able to provide one ?
Anyone know why as its a pain.
Not sure, but if you are using street view withing Google Maps, then you can enable the compass. I really like that. It should be available with the normal maps.
What other map application uses the compass?
This was a big disappointment for me as well. Compass was the main reason for switching to a low resolution device from HD.
Having compass on the map would help a lot with pedestrian navigation. The compass in streetview in my opinion is only a gimmick and not really needed more than a few minutes when you first got the device.
However, in the map view if you had a compass on one corner, then you would work out which direction to walk. Even with low accuracy, it would certainly help. The map points north and therefore, seeing which direction is north would give you idea rather than walking around fast to see your direction from GPS.
HereIm Map Helper sort of does the job but you still need two applications.
Also it is interesting to see, Google staff's replies to this issue.
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Mobile/thread?tid=6b2c0d5872df9ab2&hl=en
It seems, they are not really using the products they are developing.
I still like the device and no regrets. but I could not give up HD yet mainly due to proper exhange support. Now that I am using sony ebook reader, resolution is also not a big deal anymore.
clobber said:
What other map application uses the compass?
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RMaps, Location Scout to name but two...
When I use google map theres a little blue arrow showing which direction I'm facing...if I turn the phone around, the arrow turns too so its using the compass. I Guess you want the map to turn?
Ah... thats the direction arrow, not the compass. It will only turn if it detects you walking.
If standing still it won't generally face the way you are until you move forwards.
A compass would point north and rotate the map with you as you turn... like on iPhone...
Hi guys,
Just happened yesterday, i tried to share my position in an urban dense area using the 'new' Here Map, these are what I found:
- links to m.nokia.me but when people (and I) click it will redirect to m.here.com but then the coordinates will not shown in here.com, hence no points shown in map, only the bigger area
- longitudes are ok, but the latitudes are drifted by 200-300m north. In an urban dense area, this is easily 2-3 blocks away
WTF? They change Nokia Map to Here Map but they forgot to change the sharing URL. And it took me second try to share the coordinates accurately, even when the Here Map are showing my exact location from the beginning (not drifted at all)
In short, map is ok, but the sharing is broken. Why imbarassed me, Nokia?
Actually, it works fine for me.
On desktop with IE9 64-bit, it will show the map centered on the location but with no location icons. That's probably the limitation of the browser I use.
On my WP8 phone, it will automatically launch the Here map to show the exact location. As for the accuracy, it depends on your current location accuracy. It is pretty accurate for me sitting in my basement.
On my Android tablet and Android phones, it shows correctly in Chrome browser with location icon as well.
So, nothing is broken in location sharing.
Tested again on Win8 IE10 and it is the same as IE9. So is Chrome browser. They all showing the map without a location icon and slightly off to the right.
However, on mobile devices, they show correctly either on app (WP8) or mobile browsers.
The old maps had a feature that if we searched coordinates on Google Maps app, we were taken to nearest street, but if we searched in format: [email protected],67.058318 we were taken to the exact pinpoint with a title Somelocation. Here Somelocation may be any text of our choice. Now this feature seems to be disappeared, and now when I search this coordinate, I am given a point on a nearest street, and by nearest, I mean something like 400 meters away! Yes, in a heavily populated area where one foot might change addresses, I am thrown this far. In Website, I can see both points, i.e exact location (green) and nearest (according to them) in red color. See following link for example:
https://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&so...,67.058315&spn=0.009589,0.021136&z=16&iwloc=A
So, is there a new method or trick which may enable me to search exact location on my mobile?
There are a lot of devices out there without a built-in magnetometer, such as the Parrot Asteroid Smart (runs gingerbread, it's a double-DIN sized car stereo head unit). Without a magnetometer, lots of apps that expect one default to true north and otherwise don't function well. I've searched an there isn't a current app/driver that will respond to magnetometer direction requests with current (or previous) GPS heading.
So here's my plan:
create a driver that sits in between the magnetometer and user-ring applications. When a request is made for current compass direction, the driver redirects to the GPS and requests current (or if not moving, previous) heading. Voila! Apps that want to talk to the compass are now happy.
This could be used for other things as well, such as bypassing the internal magnetometer (on devices where there is one), useful for playing Ingress to override the cruddy compass experience (on my HTC one, which I prefer to call my HT cone).
So, why the post? I think I've searched pretty well, looking for "no compass", "no magnetometer" and '" simulate magnetometer' gps" but the only app I found was for some ancient version of Windows Mobile, and that app put predictive data in between the applications and GPS data, smoothing the GPS output. (The concept is the same, however .... intercept geo requests and respond with modified (or in my case, new) data.)
I'm getting to work creating a driver, but so far it's not very easy going, but it is almost going (thank you github, stackoverflow) but I can't be the first person to try and use GPS heading to simulate magnetometer direction. There are base classes that provide direction, 99% of the direction apps out there are simply requesting compass direction, certainly not crunching raw magnetometer data. Conceptually it should be easy to hook that call (compassGetDirection) and respond with gpsGetHeading data.
I still haven't asked a question. So, in the interest of being annoying (yes, <==noob), please assume all the above sentences are in the form of a question, like "what do you think of ..." and "have any of you ..." or "is it possible to ..."
I've had this question for some days now...
If I have wifi off and mobile data off if I use GPS will it "eat" money??
I can't find an exact answer to this answer
Your question is not clear
GPS : it's always free. With that you can acess a position by using satellites
To be used with a car for example, you must have a software like TOMTOM, MAPS, NAVIGATOR, etc ...
With such sofware you will see all roads aroud you BUT the sofware must use the map of the country where you are. 2 possibilities :
- the map is in your phone. In this case, you don't need to have a DATA access has the map will be read locally in your phone
(It's the case with TOMTOM for example)
- the map cannot be recorded in your phone and must be downloaded in real time. Its the case (partially) with Google Maps
In this case you must have a DATA access and this will not be free depending of your phone operator
It exist several GPS application so try to find one which use OpenStreet maps as it's completly free
Hope that will help you