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Originally Posted by muyoso
From what I understand of the app, it doesn't even have a basemap before 2 or more users drive down the road and "map" it for them. It will eventually give real time traffic if literally hundreds of thousands of people are running this while driving across the US. It is a good concept, but I don't think they will be able to get the user base to make this feasible or functional. If Google Maps tried this, MAYBE it would work due to how many phones it can function on.
IDK, certainly interesting.
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Hmm, I thought they got their maps from google itself? Well I installed it yesterday afternoon as I was leaving work just to try it out. I was already on the highway when I put in my home address but it found it. It did take me through a slightly longer route right before my house but it still would've got me there.
I tried however looking up my work address this morning before leaving home and it could not find it, there's a feature there to report an address not found which I did.
Yesterday when I tried it I did like how it gave me my speed, option to switch from my position on the map, to showing my direction and have it always facing north. As I made a turn it would automatically flip the screen to have the direction I was heading face north on the screen. EXACTLY WHAT I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR!
It also has an autozoom feature which I thought was pretty nice. While I was on the highway it showed a zoomed out view of my route and where I was on the map, but as I got closer to my exit, it automatically zoomed in on the map so I could see the turn real well on it. You can also switch between 2D and 3D view as well as night and day view although that can also be set to change automatically.
I REALLY like the navigation part of the app and some of the other cool little features. The only thing missing to make it perfect would be to add voice. Now why can't Gmaps or Windows Bing app have some of the simple features that this app has?? If Bing had turn by turn, automatic north facing map and voice that'd be it!
I'm gonna continue to use it to see if the routing is really reliable. If not, then it's back to Bing for now. I really like the concept of this app
EDIT: After reading the wiki it seems as though it DOES have voice, you just have to turn it on in general settings. Will be tryin that after work today. Although it also states it's not really a Navigation app and to really only use it navigating to places your already know the way to. Guess cuz it's so alpha it's not yet really trustworhty to take you to unknown locations.