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Re:Microsoft to Cut Jobs, Take $7.6B Nokia Writedown by berns on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @12:14PM (#9852616)
Free offline maps and navigation for anywhere in the world.
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Re:Microsoft to Cut Jobs, Take $7.6B Nokia Writedown by danieldk on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @02:29PM (#9853697)
FYI: the Nokia Here map is now on Android as well. Including free offline maps:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.here.app.m...

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Re:Microsoft to Cut Jobs, Take $7.6B Nokia Writedown by thaumasiotes on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @03:11PM (#9853961)
I use osmand for free offline maps and navigation anywhere in the world. Should I be doing something different? How does this make Windows Phone special?
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Re:Microsoft to Cut Jobs, Take $7.6B Nokia Writedown by berns on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @03:31PM (#9854075)
I was answering the question of what made me choose a Microsoft phone. Offline maps has always been a strong differentiator of Nokia, now the owner of Navteq. I can't comment on the quality and extension of Open Street Maps. I gather that you are a satisfied user of osmand, so I recommend that you don't do anything different.
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Re:Microsoft to Cut Jobs, Take $7.6B Nokia Writedown by thaumasiotes on Wednesday July 08, 2015 @03:38PM (#9854104)
Eh, I'm satisfied as to use in the US. The quality of the mapping they have for China is pretty bad... but I kind of figured it wouldn't be great from any other (english-language) provider either. Google Maps is better in some ways, but hard to access and still terrible at things like street addresses.
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