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Re:Nokia Lumia 1020 packs 41-megapixel camera whopper by 300bps on Thursday July 11, 2013 @01:21PM (#6027477)
I went from iOS Google Maps->Apple Maps->iOS Google Maps on my iPhones. The Google Maps worked really well.

The HERE Drive+ from Nokia Maps though is fantastic. One nice feature (of many)... it shows you the current speed limit on every road that you're on. It also shows you your current speed and it is dead-on accurate. It can even be set to give an alert if you exceed the speed limit by x MPH.

Hands down, the built-in Lumia 928 maps application is better than any maps application I ever used on any of my three iPhones.

Re:Nokia Lumia 1020 packs 41-megapixel camera whopper by untog on Thursday July 11, 2013 @01:24PM (#6027496)
Maps app or Driving Navigation app? Because they're extremely different use cases. My experience with Nokia Maps was very poor, but I don't need to drive, so never got to try that out.
Re:Nokia Lumia 1020 packs 41-megapixel camera whopper by TheAnimus on Friday July 12, 2013 @06:43AM (#6031907)
>My experience with Nokia Maps was very poor, but I don't need to drive, so never got to try that out.

I'm amazed by that. In London the mapping is top notch, it has pedestrian paths and such which gmaps is missing. However for Soho where bars come and go in weeks, its often out of date for POIs. But as normally if I'm in a place that changes often, I'll have data, that isn't an issue (one can always fall back to gmaps data).

But outside of London Nokia maps are hands down the best I've found. This holds true in the countryside of England, France, Spain, Italy, Morocco, Vietnam... I mean in the middle of nowhere Vietnam, I've good offline all the directions I need to my cycling. Amazing, gmaps didn't even have a road there, and bing, well lets not talk about bing maps. The only one that comes close is the Open Street Map project. But they lack POIs pretty much completely. On my motorbike in Thailand, I had not just Fuel places shown, but also coffee places. With no mobile phone signal...

Whilst I use windows phone as my primary device, I have some uses (SkyDemon) that require me to have an Android too, but I will say that the Nokia mapping is so bloody good, I bought a 720 (as in the UK they were £120 off contract!) for a friend as a travel phone, only for the mapping.

However, I don't use it when driving in the UK, because it doesn't have 'accident black spot warnings' or speed trap locations.

Re:Nokia Lumia 1020 packs 41-megapixel camera whopper by seanmcdirmid on Thursday July 11, 2013 @02:19PM (#6027979)
I don't drive, I mean, most people don't drive in my market....and that's where I'm supposed to look for maps on my 920?
Re:Nokia Lumia 1020 packs 41-megapixel camera whopper by jimueller on Thursday July 11, 2013 @03:02PM (#6028363)
HERE is a suite of applications.HERE Maps is ... maps, HERE Drive is the GPS/NAV app, and HERE Transit is public transportation.
Re:Nokia Lumia 1020 packs 41-megapixel camera whopper by seanmcdirmid on Thursday July 11, 2013 @06:08PM (#6029576)
And none of them work! I mean, my phone is locked to the Chinese App Store, you'd think the built in apps would at least work here also.

Also, who the hell decided to give a bunch of apps the same prefix in an alphabetically ordered list?

Re:Nokia Lumia 1020 packs 41-megapixel camera whopper by blub on Friday July 12, 2013 @05:17AM (#6031709)
Most GPS apps are broken there due to gov rules, you'd have better luck buying a local cheap GPS device.
Re:Nokia Lumia 1020 packs 41-megapixel camera whopper by ctruzzi on Thursday July 11, 2013 @02:08PM (#6027861)
That's the one part I don't like about it but that's because I go 5-15MPH over the speed limit at all times.
Re:Nokia Lumia 1020 packs 41-megapixel camera whopper by tommis on Thursday July 11, 2013 @02:43PM (#6028208)
you can adjust the limit at which point it alerts you. You can set when the alert will go off area that have below 80km/h speed and those with speed over 80km/h. Mine is set to ping on 15km/h+ on the slower areas and 18km/h+over on the higher.
Re:Nokia Lumia 1020 packs 41-megapixel camera whopper by barista on Thursday July 11, 2013 @02:09PM (#6027882)
You can always turn that speed warning off if it bothers you.
Re:Nokia Lumia 1020 packs 41-megapixel camera whopper by zimpenfish on Friday July 12, 2013 @04:20AM (#6031534)
They could also not be a dick and stick to the speed limit.