Google Maps 5.0

[Guest squidlr]

3D buildings definitely working, zoomed in with satellite layer on, then turned it off, boom! 3D buildings appeared. Very smooth!

[Guest SWOriginal]

Liar! :)

Lol what am i lying about? If its bout 3D in london its only worked once around the big ben area lol google will sort it tho fingers crossed.

[Guest flatnote31]

saw it on my way back while on the train...downloaded and tested it :) yes yes yes yes...

IT IS GOOD ;)

[Guest That-Guy]

Updating now to give it a try :)

[Guest ejhollin]

Lol what am i lying about? If its bout 3D in london its only worked once around the big ben area lol google will sort it tho fingers crossed.

I don't know what I'm doing wrong then :)

[Guest kikilyon]

Great Update! Everythings working for me, pauls R4.

Tilt view: use 2 fingers with a finger tip width between the two

Compass is working smoothly & better than it ever has

3D vectors working! Better in the U.S than London bit im sure it'll get sorted

The speed of it is just amazingly fast!

Everything works great in France with Paul R4. It's smooth. Vectorial maps are grreat !

:)

[Guest SWOriginal]

Everything works great in France with Paul R4. It's smooth. Vectorial maps are grreat !

;)

I do wish i could disable em tho for satnav but i there transparent so not a big deal :)

[Guest Polythene]

Bit gutted not all of the new features work on the SanFran. Should be lovely when they all do work though!

[Guest xenopod]

with pauls 2.2 rom i can use google maps, just installed new v5 and street view and confirm 3d zoom works and compas works on my blade with wifi and gps enabled, i turned the phone and it followed the direction and everything, i can zoom to street level and tilt, I live in Goole, UK so everyone should be able to use it just clear caches and install google maps version 5 and streetview and thats it, excellent stuff

[Guest Arr Too]

Confirmed working in the latest Froyo -- even got the new market now, too. As noted above, the only UK places with 3D buildings seem to be Cardiff and Birmingham, but the tilt and compass modes work really nicely.

I tried it in 2.1 and got the 3D buildings but no tilt or anything else.

[Guest goldengate]

with pauls 2.2 rom i can use google maps, just installed new v5 and street view and confirm 3d zoom works and compas works on my blade with wifi and gps enabled, i turned the phone and it followed the direction and everything, i can zoom to street level and tilt, I live in Goole, UK so everyone should be able to use it just clear caches and install google maps version 5 and streetview and thats it, excellent stuff

I think your getting Google Maps 5.0 and Streetview mixed up. :)

Street View with Compass (for Google Maps) has been around for ages including the tilt option. But todays New Maps for Android 5.0 is not fully compatible with the Blade even Froyo. We've got two-finger tilt and 3D vector building zoom but were not getting the 360 rotate option or normal compass which is surprise considering we have the streetview option.

It seems to be a hardware option not software. "Phones that will get the full Maps for Mobile 5 experience include the Samsung Galaxy S, the Motorola Droid, Droid X, Droid 2 and Droid Incredible, the HTC Evo, the Google Nexus S, and T-Mobile G2. (Notably missing from this list is the Google Nexus One.)"

Clearing the caches out unfortunately won't fix this. ;)

[Guest xosevp]

I can get the slide fingers down bit to work OK in both portrait and landscape mode.... but I dont understand if it lets us do this why can't we rotate?!?!?!?! :)

Update: i've read the Comments on the Marketplace and seems Rotate Not compatible with the Nexus One, Samsung Captivate and mytouch Slide ...so its not just us Blades!

from : http://www.google.com/support/mobile/bin/a...?answer=1079043

Overview: Touchscreen Gestures Supported Devices

The following devices support touchscreen gestures in Google Maps for Android version 5.0. Due to hardware limitations, certain Android devices may not fully support every gesture available.

Fully-supported devices:

The following devices support panning, zooming, tilting, and rotating gestures.

* Samsung Nexus S

* Samsung Galaxy S

* Motorola Droid

* Motorola Droid 2

* Motorola Droid X

* HTC Incredible

* HTC EVO 4G

* HTC G2

Partially-supported devices:

The following devices support panning, zooming, and tilting gestures only.

* HTC Desire

* Sony Ericsson X10

* LG Ally

* HTC Nexus One

Note:

* Rotating gestures require Android OS 2.2 or later.

* This list of devices may be incomplete and may change in the future as new Android phones are available for purchase.

Edited December 16, 2010 by xosevp

[Guest Arr Too]

We've got two-finger tilt and 3D vector building zoom but were not getting the 360 rotate option or normal compass which is surprise considering we have the streetview option.

Compass mode working fine for me.

[Guest ezablade]

We've got two-finger tilt and 3D vector building zoom but were not getting the 360 rotate option or normal compass which is surprise considering we have the streetview option.

Hmm.. what do you mean by "normal compass" not working? As far as I can see, the only option not working is the 360 degree rotation.

[Guest Rem1x]

Almost all of it works, aside from the twisting gesture, on 2.2 :)

[Guest Magnets]

Using stock 2.1 and I just updated from stock maps to 5.0, all that seems to have changed is that I now have the search bar/icons at the top of my screen. It's still loading tiles, no tilt, no 3d buildings. I presume it doesn't have offline mode either since menu->more doesn't contain any cache options (just labs/help/terms/about)

edit: 3d buildings doesn't work in satellite view, normal maps only.

Edited December 16, 2010 by Magnets

[Guest Arr Too]

In 2.1 you will get 3D buildings (if you go close enough in, and only Cardiff & Birmingham in the UK, but New York, etc. in the US). You don't get anything else. It's all been saved for 2.2 (on the Blade, at least).

[Guest Niks10]

What 's fuss about offline catching?

How do we use it?

[Guest fredewis]

is it me or did the update mest up youtube antone try it for me runing mcr 2.2r4

[Guest ejhollin]

I'm on Flibblesan's ROM (2nd version) and I can't get the vector mode. There's no cache option in the menu. Maybe this version of Froyo isn't recognised by Maps 5.0?

[Guest mario999]

I'm on Flibblesan's ROM (2nd version) and I can't get the vector mode. There's no cache option in the menu. Maybe this version of Froyo isn't recognised by Maps 5.0?

Also running Fibblesans ROM, works fine. Try typing in Manhattan and then zoom in close.

[Guest ejhollin]

Also running Fibblesans ROM, works fine. Try typing in Manhattan and then zoom in close.

I can see 3d-looking buildings but it's still tile-based as I can't rotate

[Guest Magnets]

3D buildings doesn't work with satellite view.

[Guest Niks10]

3D buildings doesn't work with satellite view.

They were not meant to be, in this version.

[Guest fredewis]

is it me or did the update mest up youtube antone try it for me runing mcr 2.2r4

can anyone look into this