Bernd Hahn, the head of iPhone development in Germany, presents the upcoming NAVIGON MobileNavigator iPhone update 1.5.0 at Macworld 2010 in San Francisco.
Bernd Hahn, the head of iPhone development in Germany, presents the upcoming NAVIGON MobileNavigator iPhone update 1.5.0 at Macworld 2010 in San Francisco.
dMap is an alternative to the iPhone native “Maps.” The difference with this is that dMap uses OpenStreetMap database that will return useful information if the native Maps application is unable to find the location you seek.
New day, new app in Cydia: dMap. dMap is an alternative to the iPhone native “Maps.” The difference with this is that dMap uses OpenStreetMap database that will return useful information if the native Maps application is unable to find the location you seek.
As soon as you load dMap, a pop-up window will appear and it will ask you if you want to be located. Since we’re talking about maps, i think a smart move would be to choose to be located.
There are 3 buttons on the bottom of the screen that represents shortcuts for:
By adding our current location to favorites, we will be able to give it a name and contact details change, for greater accuracy. dMap is available in category “GPS navigation” of Cydia through the repository ModMyi.
Finally iPhone gets turn-by-turn navigation from TomTom
It’s been a gap in the functionality of the GPS-enabled iPhone 3G for months, and one that was promised for the 3.0 software update (even though third parties have been trying to get it working for a while now): turn-by-turn navigation. Finally, the light at the end of the tunnel has been conclusively demonstrated not to be an oncoming train; it’s the faint guiding glow from TomTom for iPhone, the first announced TBT navigation package for the 3.0 software (X-Road is already in the store for 2.1 devices).
There’s no cost information yet (Engadget speculates ‘pricey’ so as not to cannibalize TomTom’s hardware business), and the launch date is only noted as after the June 17th 3.0 software availability, but it certainly looks cool: a software app combined with a custom bracket & charging cable, hands-free calling and ‘enhanced GPS performance’ included. For iPhone owners who don’t yet have in-car GPS, this could be a fantastic offering, if the price is right.
Video of the TomTom solution in the second half of the post. I already own a TomTom ONE, and just ponied up the $79 for a year of map updates… probably should have waited.
The official release on cydia of xGPS will be somewhere next week i belive, but the nice thing is that you can already install it from : http://cydia.xwaves.net
for more info on xGPS click here
Months later edit :
This is AnthonyKash from TheNovus.net and are we all ready for some upcoming GREAT news for our iPhones? Shit I know I am and have been waiting for this one for a really long time. Have you ever been driving and using your iPhone as your GPS system? Seems like it’s missing something…maybe voice out loud turn by turn directions? Ya I wondered where they were to, you know those jerk off’s over at Apple just left it out for us to bitch about. Well here we go the new xGPS 1.2 rumored to be out by the end of the month fills this HUGE gap. NO I’m not a beta tester, but I know a few of them and they say it’s legit. I man damn real voice out loud turn by turn directions who could ask for more. This one has been a long time in coming and I can’t wait. Oh ya did I mention that this app is freaking FREE, I mean it can’t get any better. xGPS has always been my default GPS app I have used just for the sole feature that it lets you download regions of map’s to be used in case you lose your data connection. With the 1.2 release a bunch of bugs have been fixed but I’m not going to waste time listing them all I really care about and all you probably care about is that we’re finally getting a nice voice out loud turn by turn nav system for our iPHones. xGPS is available on the modmyi repo via Cydia, just put apt.modmyi.com into your Cydia sources if you don’t already have it. To stay updated check back here at FSMdotCOM where Murda always has the latest updates or check out the xGPS blog here at http://xgpsdev.xwaves.net/.
