Yup, Google Maps for Mobile, the native S60 version, just hit v3.00 an hour ago. The main change is the addition of Google Latitude, a way of finding your friends on the map. More details and screenshots over the next hour once I've had a play. To grab your own copy of v3.00, go to m.google.com and click on 'More' and then 'Maps'. More shortly...
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It is very interesting seeing that Google and Nokia coming from a totally different field have come to almost the same result.
Contacts on OVI vs. Google Latitude
It will be very interesting what approach will be the winner: Google which dominates the internet or Nokia which dominates the handset markets. Will users download to their phones all the Google software (because they use it already on the net), which still needs some effort from the customer or will Nokia win with all its competing applications already preinstalled on its handsets?
Is that hamster in your contact list???
I really like Nokia's Friendview, but being cross-platform Google Maps Latitude has got to be the winner for me, not everyone has or likes Nokia's, it give you a choice if you wish to use other makes, and when the iPhone takes over the world, we'll all still be able to use it 😊
you have to have google maps app always on in order to make this useful, don't you? how does it update your location? if it does it only when you turn google maps app on, it's pretty useless...
Unregistered wrote:you have to have google maps app always on in order to make this useful, don't you? how does it update your location? if it does it only when you turn google maps app on, it's pretty useless...
Actually no, when you shut Google Maps it give you the to continue sharing your location, if you choose yes, the app closes and is no longer visible in the task manager, but continues to update your location in the background.
What effect this will have on battery life I don't know, but I am going to leave it all day and find out.
As much as I convince people to pick up a n82, it's Google Maps for me - purely for being a cross-platform solution. Now I just need time-sensitive privacy options!
I spotted Google's Latitude post earlier today (before this one).
We really could have made good use of Latitude a couple of weekends ago, when I was trying to collect my partner by car after a football match in a town I don't know, and the roads to our intended meeting point were closed.
We both had Google Maps and could each see our own location, but although I searched and searched, I couldn't find an option to send him my location (e.g. a location by SMS - and that was all we needed.) Latitude's ability to plot a walking route from My Location to Friend's location would have been just the job, while I sat in a traffic jam (and then turned round to sit in a car park and wait for him to find me).
I like the fact that Latitude gives you the option to show people either exactly or roughly where you are (good for privacy). What I'd really like to see is that option on a friend-by-friend basis (e.g. allow certain friends to see exactly where I am, but only give general location information by default). I've only shared with one contact so far, but it doesn't appear to be a contact-specific setting.
Not sure why they decided on giving it a misleading name though!
Now if only Google would give us the option to buy turn-by-turn voice routing, I can't help feeling they'd probably corner the market!
Julie
People think I'm mad when I mention this, but I guess I will take the risk.
About two years ago I was using an application called Blin (I think) or Blink...I can't remember.
Does anyone remember this application? It did a similar thing to this googlemaps but allowed you to upload photos at your location and the ability to upload videos was in the works. I can't find any sign of this on the internet.
Anyone else getting 'expired certificate' when attempting to install it?
Its bliin and I still use it get it here m.bliin.com/
> Anyone else getting 'expired certificate' when attempting to install it?
Was this on a 5800? If so, search for nokia-5800-certificate-expired-firmware-bug (there's a newlc article. I'll have to register so I can post links damnit! 😊
Unregistered wrote:Anyone else getting 'expired certificate' when attempting to install it?I downloaded it directly to the phone, and had no problems. Are you going via PC Suite?
btw, I was wrong - you CAN set the level of accuracy on a friend-by-friend basis, and also (globally) whether you want to update your position at all.
Julie
Is this the only change? Updated, but I'm not keen on using this latitude thing.
Though I do feel sorry for Nokia, after all the trouble they had with developing friend view, I wonder if they'll continue with the plan and integrate it on maps 3.0 anyway
fernando20 wrote:Is this the only change? Updated, but I'm not keen on using this latitude thing.It's optional.
got the app working but gadget on igoogle says:"not available for your location" I'm in UK
Its all a bit 'nothing new under the sun' isn't it? Apps like Viewranger have had the ability to find other people a long time before 'SOLO' was even coined. And for a much more important reason (if i don't come back from my Cumbria hike on time i'd like the fact that someone can find my corpse...) than making sure we meet at the same latte house.
It even hooks into your Facebook, ages before everyone started getting excited about the N97 widget.
Admittedly google maps is free (assuming you have an unlimited data plan...), but as an app Latitude isn't breaking any new ground.
The Google Video talks of being able to use this to:
SMS
Email
Google Talk
...to your added friends.
Forgive me, but I see no way of being able to do ANY of these things, on my S60 version.
Am I missing something, or are Google being a bit lenient with the truth.
Either way, I still LOVE this app - the first mainstream, cheap way, for my son to tell me where he really is, if I need to pick him up etc., or my partner for that matter.
But I'd also love to be able to SMS, Email or Google Talk my friends, like Google claim you can do.
Anyone know where I am going wrong?
I tried updating to the new version of Google Maps on my Samsung INNOV8 (i8510), but it says I can't install it because it is a built-in app. Any clues on how I can get it to update to the latest version?
Hi all,
Just downloaded this update and while the location tag works and i can see people, i can no longer use the zoom in or out keys 1 and 3, nothing works.
Any ideas or anyone else had this problem.
Cheers
Colm
Latitude works great on my n85 but I experience the following problem that was not there in the previous vrersion of gmaps: Very often the 3G connection drops and then when it needs to connect again it asks me again about which connection point to use? Previously it was always connected to 3G. It is irritating as sometims it asks me every 30 seconds... I have not changed any settings and all other programs that connect to the internet work great. It even happens with wifi. So i guess its a fault of the version 3. Does anybody else experience it?
When I download Latitude on my Nokia E90 as well as the E65, a �File Corrupted� message ends the installation! :frown:
Maybe the S60 3rd Edtn version of the software has a problem... any body faced the same? :con?
Unregistered wrote:got the app working but gadget on igoogle says:"not available for your location" I'm in UKIt won't work if you go to google.co.uk (although it sometime does work on initial installation and then stops), but if you go to igoogle.com/ig it'll work.
There are posts on the Google groups about this.
Julie
qlifee wrote:When I download Latitude on my Nokia E90 as well as the E65, a �File Corrupted� message ends the installation! :frown:No problems with installation on my E90. (S60 3rd, FP1)Maybe the S60 3rd Edtn version of the software has a problem... any body faced the same? :con?
Hmmm .. am I really the only one who REALLY doesn't like where all this is going? Maybe I'm just too paranoid but the thought Google / Nokia / the US government knowing where I am (or at least my phone is) at any given time kinda gives me the jitters.
This technology is still in its infancy really but we already have a lot of the software we use on a daily basis on our desktops "phoning home" with information on our usage, is it really a stretch to think over the next few years that the "optional" use of this technology will maybe not be so optional after all, with Google, Nokia able to track us even if we don't want to be tracked?
Not to mention that even away from conspiracy theories of big brother tracking us, I actually don't want everyone knowing where I am all of the time.
Then again, maybe it is me. I don't even use facebook!
They already can work out where you are by cell tower triangulation.
PaulyLaw wrote:I actually don't want everyone knowing where I am all of the time.Then again, maybe it is me. I don't even use facebook!
sorry to sound a bit attacking, but this is a knee-jerk reaction. if you'd actually used the program you'd see that you can control on a per-friend basis whether they can see an approximate location, exact location or no location at all. not to mention that you don't have to run the latitude application all the time.
if you're so concerned about being tracked by "them", you wouldn't have a phone in the first place, since as someone has already pointed out, "they" have been able to cell-triangulate since forever. i also suppose that you never use a credit or debit card? the number of ways that you can be traced and tracked are quite scary if you're of that disposition. i myself am worried about the problems that RFID is bringing along, but i understand that Google Latitude is simply a very effective and useful tool for a group of friends to find each other, say for example if i arrange with some people i know on a music forum to attend a gig - we can all add each other, and meet up easily.
i really welcome Latitude and look forward to more developments on this in the future.
if you wanna hide from "them", wear a tin hat, pull all your teeth out (because that's how they find you!) and go live in a cave.
Besides, you don't need to worry too much. Latitude has been convinced that my partner and I have been in Orlando and Turin today ... all without moving more than 5 miles from home in Berkshire!
I just installed this onto both my N95 and Blackberry Bold. On the Bold I can choose an option in Contacts to "Show on Googlemaps" using whatever address the contact has - I cannot find this on the N95 :con?
Is there a way to do it in S60?
Unregistered wrote:sorry to sound a bit attacking.
Don't be sorry .. "they" still allow free speach (apparently) 😉
Unregistered wrote:if you'd actually used the program you'd see that you can control on a per-friend basis whether they can see an approximate location, exact location or no location at all. not to mention that you don't have to run the latitude application all the time.
My issue is not so much about what the likes of Latitude can do *now*, its more about what will happen 5 years from now when we have become completely used to this kind of "tracking" and have implicitely helped by allowing software that does this onto our devices.
There is a big difference between using my credit card and unknown to me (and behind my back) my details being stored, and me spcifically allowing my device to upload specific gps locations, etc.
Don't get me wrong though, if big brother were tracking me I can't help thinking they would be kinda disappointed how boring my life is ha ha ha ha