Google Maps Navigation hacked for extra-American use

Guess what, prospective Milestone owners, the Droid's one major advantage over its Euro cousin has just been coded out of existence by those proactive, un-American XDA Developers. The free Google Maps Navigation service, whose US announcement was so shocking as to decimate the stock prices of satnav purveyors Garmin and TomTom, has now been ported to work outside the land of the free as well. Not only that, but you can use the app on other Android devices, meaning your old G1 can get a breath of fresh air for absolutely free. That is if you don't count the time it takes you to learn how to insert all the code properly and the risk of bricking your device in the process. But we know our readers eat iron nails for breakfast and fashion elegantly optimized code before lunch, so we expect all of you to be using this by day's end, you hear?

[No Comment Posted Nov 23rd 2009 1:01PM]

Well done.

[kjones555 Posted Nov 23rd 2009 11:41AM]

Seriously XDA, if you can get Google Navigation to work on the Milestone, you can bring multitouch zooming to the Droid. Get to it, NOW!

[frleus Posted Nov 23rd 2009 11:58AM]

this will happen.
multitouch is enabled in europe so no big problem.

navigation works on my magic(vodafone)
used the no-root because the root version was not available to download.
works perfectly

[coredalae Posted Nov 23rd 2009 2:58PM]

XDA is a HTC development forum, dont think they'll be making droid posts soon ;) still looking for a place that handles droid hacking :P

[Lizeth Posted Nov 23rd 2009 3:26PM]

Froget having to root your phone, Google Maps with Navigation is now in the Android Market...free!

[Hairsup Posted Nov 23rd 2009 4:13PM]

Sorry, but the official new Google Maps only nav in the USA.

I will keep enjoying my rooted G1 with hacked google nav when cursing in Canada.

[Kero Posted Nov 23rd 2009 5:36PM]

So WIN

I've been using this on our G1's for the past two weeks, works really well 90% of the time.

[Ash R Posted Nov 23rd 2009 8:19PM]

Just got this running in Melbourne Australia on a G1 running Cyanogen 4.3.5.

going for a drive at lunch to test it out :)

[greensnow Posted Nov 23rd 2009 8:35PM]

how do you get that navigate to widget from the picture? i would love to have that!

[J Padilla Posted Nov 24th 2009 10:48PM]

for all of you that are wanting the widget that is pictured above here is a link to the devs site.

http://www.2030.tk/link/navstarter

here is a link to DL the apk

http://andrac.googlecode.com/files/NavStarter_0.6.4.apk