AndNav2 brings turn-by-turn navigation to the European Android jet set
Although G1 users have that sweet compass-based Street View implementation, we haven't heard much about turn-by-turn nav on Android until now -- AndNav2 is a new alpha app that uses OpenStreetMap data to get you where you're going. It's currently supported in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria, France, Denmark, Spain, Switzerland, and Italy -- apparently the folks at AndNav don't have server enough for a Stateside implementation, although they hope to have this remedied in the future. In the meantime, it looks like Americans hoping to get from one place to another will have to either continue to rely on their superior sense of direction or, more likely, their Knight Rider GPS.
[Via Googleandblog]
[Via Googleandblog]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
JerseyBricklayer @ Dec 19th 2008 2:29PM
Nice!
Cronick @ Dec 19th 2008 2:42PM
Yes. Very cool. I can't wait to fly a jumbo jet. But, if all the passengers are flying the plane at the same time couldn't that cause a problem?
Chase @ Dec 19th 2008 2:31PM
Second!
RemDX @ Dec 19th 2008 2:33PM
Open map doesn't look very complete for the States. Probably the real reason why they aren't porting it over here.
matt @ Dec 19th 2008 4:27PM
Yes, that is more than likely why. The openstreetmap data for the UK should be completed this year, it is already pretty comprehensive, and has been more up to date than many commercial mapping data.
FILA @ Dec 19th 2008 4:23PM
a couple miles north they be at my house
Kevin @ Dec 19th 2008 5:15PM
If you want to see a US version please donate a couple bucks at:
http://www.andnav.org/
They are short $700 bucks or so. Hopefully after all the press today the gap will quickly be closed.
Alex R @ Dec 19th 2008 7:06PM
"..don't have server enough"? Proof read this shit, jeez.