Nokia Drive (3.0) & Nokia Transport (2.0) Upcoming Features:
Nokia Drives last update brought offline navigation to all; which is great- so what’s to come in 3.0?
- the application “learns” based on the style of driving
- Time travel and the density of traffic movements are tracked in real time, displaying information on the “live tile”
- Automatic determination of time of day, with the change of colour scheme cards
- Manual adjustment of routes
- Off-line favourite lists with the possibility of fixing tiles on the desktop.
And for the newly released Nokia Transport:
- Search for public transport using the user’s location.
- Displaying nearby transportation: buses, trains, trams, subways, taxis, marked stops
- Show the route with transfers
- Support Schedule in 87 countries around the world
- Support for fast access to Favorites
- Advanced Search
- Saving query history
- Change the query without a new route
- Faster search and installation of the route
- Optimized application performance
It seems like a pretty nice changelog to come (soon hopefully) but one feature I’d love to see (and is frankly pretty important) is the ability to navigate to a Favorite through Nokia drive (as of now favorites don’t sync between drive & maps)- up till now the best Favorites/search integration I could find is still on Symbian, (at least the N9 can sync with the Symbian favorites- WP doesn’t recognize any of your favorites or routes stored online).
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I’d like to note as fair to mention N9 in this context. Also as the soft was planned as a part of MeeGo plan for future.
Saw that….
Will be disappointing if unique features in it don’t make their way to Maemo6x & vice-versa.
Even if it’s quite a bit later than S^3/WP…
Esp. given how soon it’s rumored to be coming…
Konttori said that there would very few improvements to N9 maps after 1.2.
However, a pretty good source has claimed to me all improvements would come.
frankly, I think the former is more likely but hope the latter is the case.
@Viipottaja
Yes I recall konttori saying something like that.
He was mostly guesstimating, but I agree it’s more likely than not.
This “source”, they’re in the Harmattan team?
What did he mean by “all improvements” will come?
Cheers.
^ *BUMP* @Viipottaja? TY.
Great improvements! Can’t. Wait to see how well the traffic live time works on my route to work.
The location based Transport is also really cool sounding.
Nice improvements for Drive, hope that they will include the option to save a location.
As for Transport, I wasn’t expecting it to jump to 87 countries this fast. If Kuala Lumpur is included, I wouldn’t mind giving it a go, though its public transportation mess is a whole other story. :p
hear hear!
“Time travel” is supported! Wow!
LMAO! Amazing nobody spotted that.
I really Line Nokia Transport. Anyone like me who would like to see it adapt to where I am and show progress and show alternate routes as I move?
I also find it annoying that maps and drive don’t talk to each other when they’re both installed so that when I would choose to navigate to a place from maps it would use the Drive app.
Other features I’d like to see for maps in general:
- navigate to contact
- navigate to appointment
- integration with local scout outside of US