Nokia Updates Ovi Maps Beta
March 19, 2010 10:13 AM | Nokia | Comments (0)
| Nokia yesterday updated the Ovi Maps Beta page with a newer version. There are no major changes but Nokia has tweaked it here and there to improve the stability and fix a number of installation problems. In the Ovi Maps the “GPS indicator bar” has been replaced from the bottom right hand corner of the screen. The GPS position is indicated with a red dot and the map zooms in to a certain zoom level to provide a good overview. There is no visual difference between GPS positioning and the WiFi positioning at the moment but we are looking to improve this in future releases. For cell-ID positioning a halo is shown (the red circle around the dot – as shown below). When you have a position fix and you don’t interact with the map, the map is panned to your position fix and zoom in or out to display the whole halo. |  |
If you zoom in, the halo will get more transparent until it's not visible anymore to avoid a full screen overlay of the map. When you zoom out, the halo gets less transparent to show you that the position is not accurate.
When there is no position fix or the position gets lost, there is a grey dot on the last known position (if there is one) and the “back-to-my-position” (top left hand corner) button is blinking. Also, you can see on the top information bar that it will display "Searching for position" - as shown in the example below.
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