[d3mon]

OK just googled up a bit on this HDOP. Seems that the closer it's to 1, the better the accuracy of the 2d coordinates.
Fired up the GPS in my phone (indoors) and found that the HDOP was warying between 2.3 and 3.

Good, considering that it was inside a building, right ? What HDOP do you get with your antenna indoors ?

[vnabhi]

Originally Posted by lancer_rit

Guys,
learnt a few days back that Google has now "enabled" Driving directions on Google Maps. For the users of mgmaps, now you can actually do the routing on the phone, and follow the route :-)

At one point, I waited for this feature for long (or pleaded for Yahoo India to be added etc in mgmaps).

The routing in Google maps isn't always that great though. Going from BLR -> Hassan, will take you through
NH4-> Tumkur -> NH206 -> SH back to Hassan,
instead of the more logical
NH4 -> Nelamangala -> NH48 -> Hassan.

And there is no "Via" option in mgmaps to force an alternate route. Maybe google maps thinks, progress on NH4 will be faster ??

Cheers,

Thanks for this update. Not having a 'Via' option makes it inferior to MapMyIndia. However, I just took a peek, and Google is the first to show the new O.R.R. in Hyderabad.

[lancer_rit]

Originally Posted by vnabhi

Thanks for this update. Not having a 'Via' option makes it inferior to MapMyIndia. However, I just took a peek, and Google is the first to show the new O.R.R. in Hyderabad.

Google Maps are frequently updated esp. for big cities. So, its not a surprise. Mapmyindia, OTOH, has far wider coverage. I have the iNav WF on my phone, was well below my expectations for a commercial product - I posted a detailed review in one of the threads on the forum.
Unfortunately, Mapmyindia is clueless about one-ways etc as in BLR. Google Maps on web is better, need to check if this translates to driving directions.

Regards,

[tsk1979]

Originally Posted by d3mon

OK just googled up a bit on this HDOP. Seems that the closer it's to 1, the better the accuracy of the 2d coordinates.
Fired up the GPS in my phone (indoors) and found that the HDOP was warying between 2.3 and 3.

Good, considering that it was inside a building, right ? What HDOP do you get with your antenna indoors ?

Actually the lower the better.
I get a HDOP is 0.9 outdoors, and about 2-3 indoors.
However in Kinnaur, driving along vertical and overhanging cliffsides, its dropped to 4-5.
At some places even with GPS antenna I lost signal momentarily. This happened when there were cliffsides both left and right of the road, or rocky tunnels.

[d3mon]

Originally Posted by tsk1979

Actually the lower the better.
I get a HDOP is 0.9 outdoors, and about 2-3 indoors.

HDOP of 0.9 ?

The theoretical minimum according to the formula for HDOP is 1.0.

[tsk1979]

Originally Posted by d3mon

HDOP of 0.9 ?

The theoretical minimum according to the formula for HDOP is 1.0.

Oh, my bad!
Actually I get 9 satellites and a HDOP of 1.1

[prajwalkashyap]

Ok!

Thanks to this and the other thread

http://www.team-bhp.com/forum/modifi...mystified.html

I have been successful in downloading Mysore maps from google maps from zoom level 0 - 19 overnight in about 15 hours and its working well on my N70. I am yet to get a bluetooth receiver, so locating myself is still sometime away. But the maps are working, and that is what I needed.

After this success, I have setup to download the entire South India. This should be useful while touring around and me not getting lost. I'll store the .map files for future and I plan to update my offline google maps once in 6 months. I suppose that should be enough.

I'll keep u guys update to my progress.

Cheers!

Prajwal

[prajwalkashyap]

After an entire 36 hours have passed, progress is still at 0.7% !! I am not surprised, since it had to download about 234million tiles at zoom 19. I cancelled it, and I am downloading at soom 17, which has about 1.4million tiles, and after an entire night, the progress is at 8.8%, which is more manageable.

Does anyone want these from me after I have downloaded it?

Prajwal

[harjeev]

Originally Posted by prajwalkashyap

After an entire 36 hours have passed, progress is still at 0.7% !! I am not surprised, since it had to download about 234million tiles at zoom 19. I cancelled it, and I am downloading at soom 17, which has about 1.4million tiles, and after an entire night, the progress is at 8.8%, which is more manageable.

Does anyone want these from me after I have downloaded it?

Prajwal

I think that it would be more appropriate to download 0-13 zoom level for the whole of south india. Even 0-14 would be ok.
I have the whole of north india on zoom 0-13 and Delhi and NCR 0-17.

[nishad.hameed]

Originally Posted by Strangerintown

In the recent Mumbai Motor Show, I came across a stall of "Bharatnav". This is a new GPS manufacturers, who actually manufacture the GPS units somewhere near Pune in collaboration with a Korean company. Does anyone have any experience with Bharatnav or has someone who understands GPS systems evaluated them? Never having owned or used a GPS before I was in no position to compare their product to say mapmyindia.

Do they have a navigation equipment? or just a GPS receiver?

[nishad.hameed]

Originally Posted by shreyas99

Hi All, as mentioned by "ask77" i too use my N95 1gb with "Mapmyindia software". I purchased the Inav Loaded as it does not required a GPRS connection and all the map data is stored on the memory card. One thing i need to say out here, if there is anyone who has mapped our great indian roads its MapMyIndia. These guys have every single road mapped of the 170 cities that they boast of, and also to mention are the point of interests that they have. It can find you a restaurant, fuel stations, emergencies like hospital police etc anywhere.Ill try and share some screenshots from my mobile.

The mapmyindia iNav loaded will work with Nokia N95? I don't think so. For N95, if you are looking for offline maps (without GPRS), the only available option is Garmin Mobile XT with 240 city maps.

By the way Mapmyindia has released a newer version mapset with 407 cities.

[gopinathann]

Originally Posted by lancer_rit

Guys,
learnt a few days back that Google has now "enabled" Driving directions on Google Maps. For the users of mgmaps, now you can actually do the routing on the phone, and follow the route :-)

At one point, I waited for this feature for long (or pleaded for Yahoo India to be added etc in mgmaps).

The routing in Google maps isn't always that great though. Going from BLR -> Hassan, will take you through
NH4-> Tumkur -> NH206 -> SH back to Hassan,
instead of the more logical
NH4 -> Nelamangala -> NH48 -> Hassan.

And there is no "Via" option in mgmaps to force an alternate route. Maybe google maps thinks, progress on NH4 will be faster ??

Cheers,

Today I downloaded the route and converted it to GPX and used in my PDA, it worked fine. Google map direction has a ball which can be dragged to find alternative routes and if you select "by walking" it shows the shortest route. Waiting for this great app for a long time.

[lancer_rit]

Originally Posted by nishad.hameed

The mapmyindia iNav loaded will work with Nokia N95? I don't think so. For N95, if you are looking for offline maps (without GPRS), the only available option is Garmin Mobile XT with 240 city maps.

By the way Mapmyindia has released a newer version mapset with 407 cities.

Thanks for the info on mapmyindia. Need to contact them.
Sure, there is iNav WF for N95 using mapmyindia maps. I use it myself :-)

Originally Posted by gopinathann

Today I downloaded the route and converted it to GPX and used in my PDA, it worked fine. Google map direction has a ball which can be dragged to find alternative routes and if you select "by walking" it shows the shortest route. Waiting for this great app for a long time.

I agree that the route can be pulled through points on the browser display to 're-route' it. However, I was referring more to route calculation from the mgmaps application running on my N95 and contacting maps.google.com ...
Also, for the 'drag and re-route', I should mention that google maps still makes some strange routing choices at times - including going a longer path to join back the original routing.
Will try the 'walking' option as well...
Cheers,

[ask77]

Originally Posted by nishad.hameed

The mapmyindia iNav loaded will work with Nokia N95? I don't think so. For N95, if you are looking for offline maps (without GPRS), the only available option is Garmin Mobile XT with 240 city maps.

By the way Mapmyindia has released a newer version mapset with 407 cities.

I have been using Inav loaded for my N95 8GB for around eight months now . Works fine . Have been using it for Delhi and NCR and the result is excellent. I have also installed Garmin Mobile Xt with India maps and the result is not so aaccurate maps atleast for my city

[tsk1979]

harjeev which software did you use to download mgmaps?