While it's a 700M file, for just the USA west coast, the map does
seem to have better listings for finding businesses and the like than my
auto's GPS. For example, I'm not sure how it ended up on the list, but
even my small dental practice could be searched out on the Nokia map
West Coast Map as a 'medical' facility in my area. For all I know, for
my business to get listed on my auto's GPS, some pockets need to be
lined with $omething...
The fine print on the Nokia 2008 maps, at least for my n800, is how
for the last week or so it's shown up on the App Manager update list,
but the update always fails with a message of some sort. Ditto for
Skype installation...
Serious Thread drift...
IMHO, when the App Manager has a failed install or update, an
automated bug dialog box ought to show up for users to click to report
the failure to where ever/whomever it needs to get reported to.
Cat's Meow -- if something on the App Manager's list shows a significant
failure trend, it ought to be automatically removed from the App Manager
list until it's issues are resolved -- whatever it takes to get
developers more responsive to bug ridden code. There's WAY TOO MUCH
JUNK lurking as available on App Manager that doesn't work for one
reason or another for most end users to deal with.
Sadly, Maemo seems to offer a very subjective standard when it comes
to releasing buggy/stable alpha/beta/'stable' code. Some developers
seem to be very sensitive to quality, other's are open to labeling code
as stable even faster than Microsoft -- whatever markets.
For starters, it wouldn't seem overly difficult to set some
automated/objective Maemo standard that matched # of attempted downloads
with variants of faulty App Manager behavior to help determine
alpha/beta/stable code boundaries. Add in bug reports if you wish...
It's a failure in logic for something like "MediaBox" to show up on
the 2008 Maemo product download list when it requires one to install the
2008OS MPlayer which is still lurking somewhere in the garage. Perhaps
Skype and Maps are similar...?
Software is only as stable as it's weakest link -- if part of an
app's required code in in the garage, all code dependent upon it should
remain in the garage... IMHO....
Tim Ashman wrote:
> You are correct. Go into the map app, then the menu, maps, available maps and
> select and download one. Keep in mind the US west coast map alone is almost
> 700M
>
> tim
>
> On 01/02/2008 16:05, Josh Z wrote:
>
>> I think the map on n800 is empty by default... Do I need to download free
>> maps from somewhere on the web and then copy them to the relevant folder?
>> Would appreciate specifics.
>>
>> Josh
>>
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