Route 66 or Nokia Maps

What would you suggest to invest in. Route 66 is a very good software, I am using the Eastern European Maps, excellent. However was wondering if it would be better from the onset to go in for Nokia Maps as their Map Navigation is going to go from strength to strength. What is your opinion ?

It does not have to cost anything to download maps for Nokia Maps if you use the pc Map Loader. I have been using Nokia Maps for about 6 months and so far so good. I paid for 3 years sub which includes all map updates for the next 3 years for the whole of western Europe. Great Deal!.
Since that I have been to Turkey, US and Canada. I have paid for maps for these countries at €8.99 for 30 days usage. Worked great except for Istanbul where the maps are a little out of date.
The key is to download all the maps for a particular country or region using Map Loader before you go. This will avoid you paying data connection charges when you arrive.

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Transferred route from Nokia Maps to phone not the...

I planed a route on the Nokia Maps site with a couple of waypoints and some options (no toll roads, no motorways) to get it the way I wanted.
Then I did the synchronization of favorites on the phone and the route was there. But when I tried to open the route on the phone the "Calculating route" message appears and the route that shows up is COMPLETELY different from the one on the Nokia Maps: different roads, strange ways to get to the waypoints, ... In short I can not use this route on the phone as I would like.
Is there a way to transfer complete route AS IS from Nokia Maps to the phone Maps application?

Well I don't get it - why is there a need to do the route calculation twice? I would expect that once the route is calculated on a PC (including the directions) it would be transferred in some kind of way to the device as is (like transferring gpx files to the GPS device).
Anyway, even if it is so that the device recalculate the route once again I really don't understand why the same route gets completely different shape on the device then on the PC/Web. One would expect the calculation from the same provider (Nokia Maps) yields the same results regardless of where it is executed.

6110 notes: Route 66 and Nokia Map (Smartogo) in a...

Hi,
Just sharing some observations after trying out the two maps for navigation in a city.
a) Responsiveness: Route66 is definitely more responsive in re-routing once you drive off the recommended route. It typically provide new directive immediately, whereas Nokia map will take a couple of seconds for recalculations.
b) Quality of re-route: When a route is missed, Route66 seems to provide more 'human-like' new route. Whereas, Nokia Map seems to work on partial re-route, and try to find the "next possibility" with the objective to make a "U-turn" to get back to the previous calculated route. The difference is important in real life, since making U-turns in an un-familiar location can be dangerous, but more importantly, can dis-orientate most people who are not adept in navigation in the first place. So, Route66 seems to be smarter than 'smartogo' on this respect.
c) User interface: Nokia Map (smartogo) seems to be lacked of the short-cut keys that Route66 already provice (such as key 5, 6 etc). Also, the satellite info page seems rudimental.
However, the screen layout of the Nokia Map seems more useful than Route66, but Route66 has more fancy graphics. So, it is clear that Route66 has been optimised for novice in navigation, making it as easy as possible.
d) Voice navigation: Route66 seems to be straight-to-the-point, i.e. clear instruction. Nokia Map tends to be a bit more chatty and delayed. For example, quite frequently, it would say "next possibility", which is useless, except seems to project to me that it is not sure. Also, by the time it finished saying 'possibility', you already missed the turn out.
When one is on the road and decide to rely on the voice navigation, just tell me what to do at the right time, cut out the sweet talks.
e) Landmark management. This one, Nokia Map is definitely one up.
Well, it seems that Route66 is the way to go at this point since it seems a more mature product. However, I think Nokia Map has many tricks up the sleeves, it seems, especially in terms of integration with other applications.
I still love google map for the satellite view, nothing can beat having a preview of the terrain of the route one selects. However, this is not for everybody, I admit.

I find Route66 also tends to keep trying to send me back to the route it initially calculated for far too long after I've diverted off - usually to avoid traffic jams.
The one feature I would really like on Route66 - and which I always assumed would be in any routing software - is a "find me another route that avoids this road" option. Can't understand why that one isn't available as the code that handles the real time traffic data could easily be adapted to do it.

Nokia Maps wont route to certain places !!

Hiya
Can someone please try this for me ?
Can you please try and route from GPS and Route to Loftus
See if you can get a route because mine gets stuck at Calculating route and I am wondering if I have an issue with my version
I dont know how many other places mine wont goto but this is a regular one.
Loftus should come up as Redcar or Saltburn when it finds it and is in the UK
Thx
Paul

I won't beat about the bush here, nokia maps is *bleep*
If I open the maps application and let it find a GPS signal as im driving along, the map on the handset is upside down ie if im travelling south the cursor on the map is travelling north it is following the route im going but the map is upside down, the GPS should recognise which way im going and turn the map correctly. Only when I plan a route does it correct itself and show the map the correct way up
Also, I have maps for Latvia installed on my mem card and if i zoom into street level and copy one of the major street names in Riga exactly as its spelt on the map then go back to search to search for that street it finds no results, it doesnt matter how many different ways i spell it it can't find it, many addresses I have searched for in Riga and it cant find them, yet when i zoom into the map and find it manually it is there, I'm off to Germany in December for the xmas markets (bah humbug) I have not yet installed the maps for Germany but I wonder if i will have the same problem
Moderator note: Please do not try to get around the bad language filter.Message Edited by michaels on 02-Oct-2007 12:28 PM

Nokia Maps is just stays calulating a route?

Hello.
I have just got my N95 8G phone. I Hard reset it, install new firmware and got a 7 day trial of Nokia maps.
I try to get it to calulate a route, even a very short one and it just never finnished calculating a route.
I saw a few others online having same problems, so then decideed to install Map loader v2. This software just freezes at startup logo, I guess this isnt Vista 64 compatible?
I then installed the older map load v1.1 and this works. I remove all old maps, and install the voice and map data from scratch, this makes no difference.
Question is, is this a phone fault or software fault, and is there a soloution?
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Ok, it seems I have solved it. I did the following.
1:format the mass storage.
2:Hard reset.
3:Reinstalled v30 -18 firmware.
4:installed the maps and voice.
Had no effect.
5: Downladed Nokia map update (Beta)
http://www.nokia.com/A41433075
The phone crashed repetedly when either opening Nokia Maps, or sellect add licence key, or words to that effect.
After several attempts I mannaged to add the licence key.
6: I when to Menu/Tools/connectivity GPS Data. Select Position, then options/Satalite status and left the phone on windw seal untill I got at least a 4 bar filled lock.
7: When to nokia maps sellected a destination and it worked.
Next at your own risk:
I then debranded the phone, re installed the firmware v30-18 again which put the older maps in again, but continued to work, i.e calculated the route within 15 seconds.
Message Edited by rectro on 19-Dec-2008 09:25 AM

Nokia Map and Drive+ Beta on Lumina 920 Feedback

So I took my new phone down to MD/DC area in the last few days and here are a few things that I would like to post as my feedback on what would be nice to have, fixes, etc. [I used both my new Lumia 920 and my wife's Samsung Galaxy Note 2 as comparsion).
1. Highest priority for me is that the routes from Here.net need to be able to sync down to the phone. Nothing more is more important then this because when you have a custom route that you want to use (for example, to route around high traffic or potential high traffic areas).
2. Extremely disappointed that a new road in MD (MD 200) was not used by the Drive+ and didn't even show up on the map on my Lumia 920 while it was used and did show up on Google map. This road is a toll road and is over a year old already. [And yes, I have enabled toll road in the navigation as well as selected 'faster route' as the routing to use under smart routing]. I cannot stressed how disappointed I am to not see Nokia Map have this route at all.
3. Allow route changes on the Nokia Drive+ app. As good as pre-planned trip and using Here.net, there are just tmes that it's much better to allow us to change the route based on latest condition.
4. Never once did I see ANY traffic updates at all on both the Map and Drive+ Beta. When it does shows on my wife's Google's Map/Navigation.
5. I love that under Drive+, it tells you which lane to get into ahead of when you need to make a turn or merge onto another way. However, the flip side of that is that there's no way to know which road you're currently on. This is probably more important for when you're in an area with a lot of highway/local way intersections. Also, it would be great if it also will display the next major 'road' that you will be getting onto.
So far I'm happy with some of the functionality and disappointed in some of Nokia Map and Drive+ and I have about a week left to decide to either stay with WP9 and Nokia or do I want to switch back to Android and Google Map.

hi there,
As this is a user to user forum only, if you wish to leave feedback with Nokia regarding their products and services, you can do so directly by clicking the Nokia Support link at the bottom of this page.

Edit Nokia Maps GPS waypoints

Hi!
Is it possible to edit the Nokia Maps GPS waypoints on a PC?
Tks in advance!

@everton_cwb
Welcome to the forum!
If you have created route upon device you can always synchronise it with Ovi, then go to maps.ovi.com and add waypoint to existing route and re-synchronise back to device if that is what you mean.
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Navigation with Nokia Maps crash (N95 8Gb)

Hi All.
Does anyone have this problem, when the Nokia Maps start Navigation and is calculation route, Crash !
Thanks,

Here's my brand new, maps crashing issue; For some bizzare reason, I thought I'd try to use a-gps. I've always had pretty good luck with the thing syncing but it could be better.
I recently came to Germany and got a MOBI (vodafone) sim card and I set vodafone live as my provider. It didn't seem to be any faster so I went into setting, (in maps) and tried to turn it off.
The problem is; I can't. When I go into Maps settings and click on Network, it shuts off Maps or reboots the phone. Now, whenever I turn on maps, it logs onto vodafone and burns off all of my credit in about 5 minutes...and I can't turn it off and I can't use maps without using all of my expensive credit.
It's really **bleep** me off. This is the first software issue I've had with this thing and I have no idea how to solve it. I've gone into Tools>General>Positioning methods and only have Integrated gps checked but it's still logging on.
It's a real pain. If I could remember my lock code, I'd reset everything to default.
Any idea...?
Thanks

Help! How To Delete Unwanted Routes in Nokia 5230 ...

How To Delete Unwanted Routes in Nokia 5230 Nuron?
(which are under MENU -->Applications -->MAPS -->Favorites -->Routes)
It's weird that I can create a route but can NOT delete any? Anyone please help!
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GPSLover wrote:
How To Delete Unwanted Routes in Nokia 5230 Nuron?
(which are under MENU -->Applications -->MAPS -->Favorites -->Routes)
It's weird that I can create a route but can NOT delete any? Anyone please help!
On a 5230 highlight the route you wish to delete, then hit the search bar. The keypad appears, then just press the backward pointing small white arrow on the far right hand side of the screen about half way down and it will then say "Delete selected route?"
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Nokia Map

hi, my nokia map are able to detect where i m. but when i tried to navigate from point a to point b, i was ask to "purchase an upgrade". if i do not, i could not navigate. I thought nokia map can be use free except for it voice navigation need to pay???

hi all, thanks for the reply
i am using E51. I am aware of the voice navigation need to pay, but turn by turn meaning to say it is to navigate frm point a to point b also need to pay??
I m able to simulate nokia map in my navigator 6110 the route though.

NOKIA MAPS! The biggest scam! Simply **bleep**

All users are complaining about NOKIA MAP Loader. Nokia is not giving any answers. So, we don't want to became nokia betatesters. Stop using this application... it is the biggest **bleep** i have ever seen!

I think route dragging should be implemented. It is a pain in the neck to always use additional waypoints, just to find the correct route

Tracking option in Latest Nokia Maps gone

Hi everyone, Ive updated my Nokia Maps on N95. Used their 3 days free trial, and now the tracking option has disappeared from the route menu. On the old version you could plan a route from A to B, and instead of Navigating there, you could use the Start Tracking option. This seems to be no longer available. Now if I plan a route, it wants me to buy the navigation stuff. Has any one else had this problem. The maps app is practically useless now unless you want to buy a licence key.

I too was made a victim of Nokia's failure to inform 'Maps' users of the lack of Tracking capabilities in the latest version of Nokia Maps.
I couldn't have been more dissapointed with the latest installment of a program which i had previously been very happy with! My reasons are simply,
1) I don't think the interface is accesible as that in previous versions of Nokia Maps
2) The lack of tracking capabilities
Like so many of you in this discussion i updated Maps and found i disliked the update and wanted to revert back to the latter version, easier said than done but i managed to do it...
First I performed a Hard Reset (*#7780#): WARNING, i recommend backing up the phones data first, i found this out the hard way!
After setting the country, time, date etc i found that Nokia Maps and a number of other Applications had been replaced by another set of icons and were named differently, eg. Nokia Maps now couldn't be opened and was called Smart2Go.
To rectify the apparently worsened problem i downloaded the Nokia Software Updater which informed me that although i had the latest Firmware i could reinstall it - i did this and PROBLEM SOLVED!
I hope by sharing my experience others might have their problem solved. I think the solution lies in reinstalling the phones software on Software Updater.

Planning a route for HERE Maps/Drive+ Beta

I would like to plan a route with multiple route points in advance and save the planned route to HERE Maps or HERE Drive+ Beta. Is that possible?
The route can be made with here.com webpage, but is it possible to import a route to my Lumia 920? When the route is saved to a collection in my nokia account, it is not shown in the mobile phone.
Phone: Lumia 920
Software: The newest
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Sorry, I'd like to unresolve this. The workaround mentioned is not a solution.
I travel to loads of places by motorcycle, and going off the beaten track is wonderful. Since I upgraded My E6-00 and C7-00 to a Lumia 920, I'm back to allowing the SatNav (phone) to decide where I go. Boring dual carriageways and bypasses are now my natural habitat - bah humbug. Afterall, the phone is in my pocket (safe from weather), headphones in my helmet - I can't constantly look at a map. Having multiple 'favourites' and planning from one to the next isn't workable. Fair enough the Lumia 920 is usable with gloves on (major plus for a biker, come on you marketing people!) but I don't fancy re-routing all the time by the side of a road.
I'm also planning a charity cycle ride over 100s of miles this Summer, and while that can be done in BikeRouteToaster, Google Maps etc, there is no import function into 'HERE' that I can see. It's impossible to plan a route on the device itself. Yes it can route walker (I can't seem to get turn by turn working for that, but nevermind), public transport and car, I have an option to avoid motorways etc, but cycle route planning needs consideration for height metres, unpaved/paved roads (Google StreetView etc used a lot to find a Sustrans route is actually unfit for road bikes) etc. So.. Importing a route planned elsewhere (gpx, kml or something) would be a real alternative, or a workaround. Asking the device to do its own planning from one point to another really isn't workable.
Please make the Nokia's USP an actual USP again?

Nokia Maps Problem

Hi there
Since Ive got my phone, Nokia Maps has never worked. My screen currently sits on green, and with the logo above the Exit button flashing three orange lights... it just doesnt seem to connect
Im in Northern Ireland - would this affect it? Do I need to install or download anything?
Thanks for any help in advance
PS : I have the Nokia N95 8GB
Message Edited by soupyjnr on 08-May-2008 07:06 PM

hi there
i had problems with the gps on my n95 when i first got it heres some things to remember
the gps is under the keypad please make sure its allways open when using it for best signal
its hard to get a lock on in some indoor areas (well alot or indoor areas)
what firmware do you have?? try installing the latest one
nokia maps didnt work very well with the internal gps i left my phone outside in my car for 15 mins with no lock on to signal i was very dissapointed but i tryed garmin mobile xt and it picked up signal very very quickly id say within 45 seconds max probably much less ive heard nokia maps v1.2 is out now and apparently it works alot better then the 1st version so it might be worth updating the maps software here http://europe.nokia.com/A4509291
another thing to do is to make sure assisted gps is on (agps)to do this go into main menu -- tools -- connectivity--gps data--options--posistion settings--then make sure they are all ticked apart from bluetooth gps--
hope that helps mate
so to sumarise
update nokia maps here http://europe.nokia.com/A4509291
or try garmin mobile xt or route 66 both work with the internal gps
then make sure agps is switched on via the settings i mentioned above
then go outside and open phone and load software ie nokia maps (updated version) see if this works any better mate

Nokia Maps Crashing

I have some problems with my Nokia Maps 2.0 on my N82 after downloading a weather application (from the N82 menu 'download' option). First, it regularly crashes the phone - especially when trying to calculate a route. It struggles with the 'Walk' function, and will soon crash the phone. I have removed the weather application from the phone, but the phone is still unstable. Also I haven't now got an option in Maps to save a location, and in another menu, the 'Favourite Places' doesn't work. However, I have a list of some of my saved places in the 'History' option. I've spoken to Nokia for approx. 4 hours over this, but they are puzzled!
What's going on? How can I get Maps to work perfectly on my phone again? I would strongly urge caution on using the 'Download' option on the phone's menu. Has anyone experienced similar problems?

TheDonCymru wrote:
I use Nokia Maps (v3.09 12wk09 b05) on the X7-00 as the SatNav in my car. There's no clear pattern to this but it will happen several times on a long journey.
Nokia Maps v3.09 devours more phone memory than earlier versions and memory leakage only becomes more apparent when application used for several hours, which may well account for such behaviour.
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