Monday, 16 of October of 2006
Geographic searches from your Palm with Google Maps
The well-known service of geographic searches Google Maps is finally available for equipment with operating system PalmOS. By all means, like its version for PC, we will need to have a connection to Internet to use it. I have tested in my Tungsten E2 connecting to Internet via my PC using bluetooth and the truth is that the program goes of wonder. Before installing it, we can see a guided visit where the functions of the program are explained to us, that are the following:
- Geographic searches by means of a great variety of data: name of the city, the street, postal code, geographical coordinateses, etc. a trick: in order to find something in a country different from the United States, to in the end add to one comma and the abbreviations of the country. For example, to find Madrid in Spain, we will look for “Madrid, is”.
- Given two points, the program can calculate the shortest route between both, indicating yet details the passage, in the style of the programs of navigation for automobile.
Detail of the route between two cities
- Like it happens in the complete version, we can choose between the physical maps (the photos satellite), or maps of street guide, with the names of the streets and places.
- It allows to make zoom lens to move away to us and to approach to us with great soltura, and in the Palm with navigator of five directions, this one can be used to move by the maps without needing using the touch screen (very useful for the Treo, thus it is not necessary to remove stylus).
- By all means, like his older brother, it allows to look for all type of services: pharmacies, hotels, restaurants, pizzerías… everything what lack can do us when we arrived for the first time at a city.
- Supposedly also it provides information of the traffic in real time, although it seems to be available only for the United States.
- The unloaded maps temporarily stay in cache, so it is not necessary to unload them again if we simply want to return to see the map. Also, is at any moment the amount of data unloaded in the session, to control the cost.
Looking for one pizzería in the environs
The state of the traffic in New York
Although already a version of Google Maps in Java existed, unfortunately was not compatible with the PDA Palm. It's an ill wind that blows nobody any good, and now we can enjoy Google Maps like native application for PalmOS. Once we verify the compatibility of Google Maps with our equipment, we only must unload and install the program in the Palm. Although it is said that it is the version for Treo, is really compatible with all the equipment with PalmOS 5.
We can be abreast of the new features that are arising with this program by means of this page, and consult doubts with other users in this group of discussion. In the forums of PDAExpertos we can find the experiences of the users, and in this vestibule they have realised an extensive analysis with screen captures of all the options.
Without a doubt, a really useful application for our movable devices, that at the same time a new utility to the connection to Internet in these apparatuses gives and makes shake our portfolios. For when accesible a flat tariff of data?
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Wow! I am going to lower it and to already install it of one in my TX… habia used the movable version of Google Maps in the Blazer, but to see if this is better… and if Santiago leaves Chile. Greetings.
We will see the improvements that bring compared with the version java greetings.
Really excellent… very fast load… pity that can only see Santiago of Chile with satellite imageries… seguire using Handmap with the incomplete map of Santiago…
Yes Sir, these of Google besides buying companies curran it. Pity that does not have a targeta wi-fi in the Palm, although the certain thing is that it even goes of fable through Bluetooth.
It hears Marks, the Link that you must before the one to unload connects to this same page
Greetings
Perfect with my Clié. With these things I am glad of to me to have bought a PDA with wiFi.
This adds burrada of added value to the PDA with wifi when you find hotspot in a city that you do not know.
@Lithium: mine with the connections he is already pathological. Thousand thanks
with this I even believe that seguiria losing to me: p
@MrAnderson: luckyly one of the best things of Google is that they worry to extend his services outside the USA (translations, maps), so I do not doubt in that in a time we have maps that now are not available
to @Car them M: yes, for that we did not orient ourselves well is no definitive solution still
Hello to all the truth that is spectacular, pity that cannot use it with the map (only satellite), but does not matter… is SPECTACULAR the RAPIDITY OF the LOAD. Much has impressed me!
Hopefully Google follows with this type of things (that does not become payment of one). Greeting to all and I take advantage of for felicitarte Marks by tremendous blog that llevás!
A virtual hug to all! Bye
To somebody interests this apliacacion to him in Spanish?
but as it is obtained if you have compartela enormously agradecera you greetings.
Thanks for those translations to the Spanish, I read
OK. .trabajando in her….
jejeje
Throne… to begin again
Hello Marks. When attempt to connect says me to me that I do not have access to the network and the program is closed. sera that I must put proxy to him like the Blazer? I have a E2 with the Bluesoleil.
I do not create, although not how proxy for this program could be formed. Somebody has proven that it with proxy, that us of some advice if it can.
Hello!
I have a Palm Z22 and I would like to know more or less as they are the things that I can do with her aside from writing tasks, appointments or notes…
I talk about to that programs are compatible and that series of things.
Much would thank for you… Thanks!
Mmmm what you can do he is almost everything… each program says normally that PalmOS requires like minimum, so it is necessary that you know that PalmOS you have in your Palm and lanzarte to look for interesting programs for you…
they podrian to say to me if the model of palm tungsten E2, is possible to be changed the language of the operating system,
thanks beforehand….
Hello Alvaro.
Some E2 is multilanguage, and the language is chosen after doing hard reset. Nevertheless if your E2 brings only English language, you cannot change it directly, although there are programs to make it of way nonofficial, like PiLoc.
In the Palm multi-language reset can be changed to the language without needing hard… is enough to erase Unsaved Preferences, to make a soft reset and you permitira choose the language. Greetings.
Brilliant trick!
Hello again. It had installed weeks ago by necessity, google maps in my ux50 (in japo); consequently I obtained a message of error in all the occasions, when reading this post, decided to follow the instructions given in the synchronous lowered one of google and. But me sige dande the error: palmgstring.cpp: 219 error == errNone.
somebody knows because. I thank for your tempo and interest beforehand to you. Thanks
Not if it will have some relation. I have installed google maps in PalmSim and have obtained following mensaja: This application requires an ARM CPU. It can be why if runs in others clies and not in ux?
Greetings
I believe that PalmSIM emulates an old Palm based on 68000, and surely Google Maps is optimized for new the Palm with more modern processor. For that reason complaint.