Tag Archives: directions

How reliable are Directions (or Routes) in Google Maps?

Google Maps does not provide metadata about geographical data used for geocoding or routing. This could lead to some astonishment when the user see the routing results in Google Maps. For example a route from Hungary to Bulgaria will direct … Continue reading

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Navigon MobileNavigator for iPhone

Now Navigon delivers also an offline navigational solution for the iPhone. Several months ago TomTom was the first company that announced real turn-by-turn navigation for the iPhone. The application can be downloaded via the AppStore and contains about 1.29GB of … Continue reading

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Yahoo Maps with draggable routes

Yahoo has updated their Map Service for Europe. Now it is also possible to modify routes via drag and drop, as you know it from Google Maps. They included also an function to revert back to the original route and … Continue reading

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TomTom Navi now available for the iPhone

At Apples WWDC in San Francisco CTO and Co-founder of TomTom, Peter-Frans Pauwels introduced TomTom turn-by-turn navigation for the iPhone. The application looks very slick and fast and can switch between portrait and landscape mode. The text to speech functions … Continue reading

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