Google Maps for WM5/WM6 - Ver. 2.0.0.11

[colonel]

Pretty cool. Wish it did people searches like Live Search does.

[Balibe]

Originally Posted by colonel

Pretty cool. Wish it did people searches like Live Search does.

It may not do people search, but it will let you search an address from your contacts. Something it didn't do when I used it on a BB7100 and a very nice addition.

[Pibe38]

Anyone know where cache for this app is? I wanna clear but can't find it...

[rhacy]

Pibe38,

I could not find any cache to easily clear or move either... Doh!

The downloaded map files are stored in the Google Maps folder within your My Device Application Data folder.

On a related note, I could move the program itself to the minisd card program files folder, set up a shortcut, and it would run fine. But when I moved the Google cache folder from the Application Data folder, Google Maps would error out upon start up.

So... eventhough it worked well with GPS etc... Not being able to easily clear or move the map data was a deal breaker here.

Nonetheless... hopefully Google or someone will get a chance to fix the install to card problem, as well as add a storage card data cache option, or post a way to move the data folder to the card without the error issue...

[JackSchitt28]

i have been using it and monitoring my memory and nothing seems to make it go lower. it is like it is erasing it after it is used.

[xarses]

Good app. the contacts searches dont use the address if the contact has one (grr) and the look up by phone number seems close, but never that accurate.

[rhacy]

Originally Posted by JackSchitt28

i have been using it and monitoring my memory and nothing seems to make it go lower. it is like it is erasing it after it is used.

Wow... that's strange.... as I just reloaded it to main program storage memory and it's cache in Aplication Data > GoogleMaps > cache-GLM does indeed grow in size as more maps are downloaded. I can really see the increase when I zoom in and out with different area satellite maps; as the cache grows in size and my program storage memory shrinks by the same amount. Also, the cache does not clear here unless I actually delete the cache-GLM file. I tried a soft reset etc... and the growing cache size is still there.

Can anyone else verify that the cache-GLM erases itself instead of increasing in size?

Maybe it's just my ole apache, lol...

Anyway, for those seeing a directly related decrease in your program storage memory. You can move the GoogleMaps program to your card in order to save some memory, and manually delete the cache-GLM from time to time.

Hope this helps,
R

[xarses]

never mind my previous comment, i fat fingered my adresses and got weird results (go figure)

[JackSchitt28]

Originally Posted by rhacy

Wow... that's strange.... as I just reloaded it to main program storage memory and it's cache in Aplication Data > GoogleMaps > cache-GLM does indeed grow in size as more maps are downloaded. I can really see the increase when I zoom in and out with different area satellite maps; as the cache grows in size and my program storage memory shrinks by the same amount. Also, the cache does not clear here unless I actually delete the cache-GLM file. I tried a soft reset etc... and the growing cache size is still there.

Can anyone else verify that the cache-GLM erases itself instead of increasing in size?

Maybe it's just my ole apache, lol...

Anyway, for those seeing a directly related decrease in your program storage memory. You can move the GoogleMaps program to your card in order to save some memory, and manually delete the cache-GLM from time to time.

Hope this helps,
R

when i installed this, i installed to storage card, and when i zoom in out and move around in sattelite view, it shows it is loading and all, no matter how much i move around or do whatever, neither my storage card nor device memory moves at all. it is going somewhere.

[dannzeman]

I got a chance to use this over the weekend while I visited my mom in KC. I really like this, even more than MS Live Search. After coming home I checked the cache size and it was just over 2mb. If you go to Options, Reset Google Maps, it'll let you reset the applications which I guess is supposed to delete the cookies, history of search terms, preferences, and map & satellite image cache. I did this and notice and decrease in my memory usage. I do have it installed to the storage card and haven't have any problems with it all weekend. However, I did have MS Live Search randomly close on my 3 or 4 times for no apparent reason. When that happened I'd just open GoogleMaps and it smooth sailing from there.