[maemo-users] How About Google Maps for Mobile for the IT?

[From: Aniello Del Sorbo]

2009/3/19 Mark <wolfmane at gmail.com>:
> On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Matan Ziv-Av <matan at svgalib.org> wrote:
>> On Wed, 18 Mar 2009, John Holmblad wrote:
>>
>>> All,
>>>
>>> here is another app that would be nice to have on the IT:
>>>
>>> http://www.google.com/mobile/default/maps.html#
>>>
>>> At the end of that www page they put in the following teaser:
>>>
>>>>    Of course, if you have an iPhone, iPod touch, or Android device,
>>>>    you’ll already be familiar with Google Maps right there on your
>>>>    home screen.
>>>>
>>
>>
>> What does Google Maps application do that maemo-mapper does not?
>>
>
> Routing. Maemo-mapper requires you to be online and gets directions
> from - can you say: "Google Maps"?....... (Not that I've been able to
> get that to work in Maemo Mapper.)
>

Google Maps also requires you to be online for maps and routing, doesn't it?
I still don't see what Google Maps does more than Maemo Mapper.

The only thing I can think of is shop search, but that is not in the
todo list of Maemo Mapper, probably.

-- 
anidel