A decent GPS App?

[potatoprince]

Would love to see something like TomTom or one of the other major companies to release their software so it would work with the G1

[f4phantomii]

Holy cow.....I swear I've seen this exact same post exactly word-for-word before.

Yes....the Google Maps app that comes with the phone is inadequate for those that were expecting a realtime turn-by-turn navigation function.

Yes, there are at least two solutions for realtime turn-by-turn navigation currently available today.

1. TeleNav service from Tmobile. $10/month subscription, and supposedly almost as good (some will argue better) as any standalone GPS device....but you'd pay less for a standalone GPS device.

2. Nav4all hit the market last week. It works and it's free.....the bad part is it is made to work on literally hundreds of phones, so the UI is a little clunky and the maps aren't the greatest. It's decent, but nowhere near as good as a standalone GPS unit or TeleNav for that matter. Select the "Fun British Female" voice and your phone sounds like you called a 1-900 number.

Two other things to keep an eye on.....

AndNav will be free, great support from the two devs, and it looks good and should work as well as TeleNav and other GPS software. Still requires a network data connection to plan routes, but you can download routes ahead of time for offline use and download maptile packs for offline use....both excellent features. They've ordered hardware to build a dedicated US server for routing. They are just waiting on an out-of-stock mainboard to arrive. Should have something working by mid-year if not sooner. A version is available in the Market now, but routing only works in a few US states.

AmazeGPS still claims to have a "Coming Soon: Android" version on it's website. If it ever comes to fruition, it looks like it might be good. Again, something to keep an eye on.

[hernandz5683]

Have you tried telenav yet. Best one out there.

[mbreezy]

I was going to say the very same thing as F4... I'm partial to AndNav (from what I've seen) and cannot wait until it comes out. Looks great!

I've yet to use my G1 for navigating (very rare occasions when in a bind) as I use my Magellan standalone.

[sflande]

telenav is a piece of crap. I used it for a month and was only impressed a few times. A few issues i found:

1. Its really picky how the addresses are entered in your contacts. It doesn't parse them properly so your forced to type in addresses most of the time.
2. The voice recognition rarely can recognize what i'm saying.
3. The gps disappears regularly when driving, even though the gps indicator says its locked on.
4. When your stopped at a light the map keeps on moving so sometimes you end up on the other side of the intersection.

It may get better in time but for now its definitely not worth it.

Spencer :-)

[TheJuan]

f4 covered it. ive been using telenav for the last 3 months.. its ok it aint horrible, however i do recomend a standalone gps device. shoot u can find a navigon for like $70 (refurb) on ecost.com i bought a $500 navigon last year and the 70 dollar 1 works just as good, i broke it and thats y the telenav experience came in..... andnav im still waiting for.. we must donate. cus people in cali got it going, they donated the devs noticed and boom.. its free for us but the servers cost $. love andnav tho www.andnav.org

[f4phantomii]

One thing I will mention about Nav4all.....

Over Easter weekend I was driving back from my in-laws (about a 6 hour drive) and had Nav4all running to navigate home. We also had my wife's brand new Garmin Nuvi running side-by-side with it.

It was really interesting....typically the voice prompting came from both systems nearly simultaneously, or certainly within a second or two of each other. The interface on the Nuvi was clearly way more polished, but Nav4all did the job.

The map display on Nav4all was really poor. It was difficult to use and I wasn't able to always get the results I wanted. Unfortunately turn previews weren't available in map view, but you still got the voice prompt.

On the whole, I think AndNav is going to be more on-par with TeleNav. About the only thing AndNav is lacking is the 3D view. But it has an enormous amount of potential. I just wish the AndNav devs would share the source code.....I think development would really skyrocket.

[paul roberts]

Do any of these work with no data (3g/edge/wifi) when roaming.

[henchman]

I've tried all the different apps, and s far TeleNav kicks ass on all of them.
I wish you could download and store maps on the phone, so you only have to rely on the GPS.
But it sdoes give traffic updates as well.

I've had no problem with the voice recognition at all.

So, until something else comes along, I'll stick with Telenav.