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Old 12-14-2006, 10:30 AM
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Running on TyTN. Works great for the most part. But when I try to search for an address, it keeps telling me to check my network connection? Anyone else having problems with actual addresses and not POI's?
Yes, you have to check your internet connection, and if it works, just close and restart program. It is not only, when you look for the address. There's something wrong with program connecting to its server
I found the same - at first it worked, and I was able to find London and scroll around the map, and then it started reporting connection errors intermittently. I guess there's still a few bugs to iron out.


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Old 12-17-2006, 02:53 PM
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Yes, pretty cool program. So far I have only used it for its traffic maps (can be very helpful where I live, in the Los Angeles area), and they are pretty good.

One suggestion though. It would be nice if one could set it so it automatically goes to a specific traffic map on startup. (Or is there now a way to do that, that I have not discovered? A registry tweak, perhaps?)

For instance, if one is driving, and gets stuck in a traffic jam, and wants to look at the travel map, now there are too many steps necessary to get there, to accomplish while driving. One has to start the program, go to the city one wants the map for, choose to show traffic, then zoom in to the part of the city one wants the map for, etc., etc. Way too many steps. It sure would be nice if one could set it so that all one has to do is start the program, and it will go right to the requested traffic map, without all those intermediate steps.

So for now, I find it more convenient to use Map4PDA or Virtual Earth Mobile, for traffic maps. They will remember where you were, and go right back to where you left off, when you restart the program. Windows Live Search has a nice traffic map implementation, except for the fact that it seems not to remember at all where you last were, and I see no way to set it to go right there on startup. (Yes I know, Google Mobile Maps also has traffic maps. But being a Java application, I find it far less convenient than the two Windows Mobile apps I mentioned.)
 
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Old 12-18-2006, 01:29 PM
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The Windows native version looks very cool though. Since I don't have a GPS, I used it with Navizon, a virtual GPS using cellular and Wi-Fi triangulation, and it worked great: displayed my position on the map and displayed the traffic information in my area.
I have the Premium eval version on my TyTN but it wont do the phone triangulation. It only recognizes the wifi. Which I don't want to turn on at the moment.
I believe Navizon is having problems with supporting the TyTN. Tried the same thing and got the same results as you. Check the Navizon forum for updates i guess.
 
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Old 12-19-2006, 01:43 AM
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The Windows native version looks very cool though. Since I don't have a GPS, I used it with Navizon, a virtual GPS using cellular and Wi-Fi triangulation, and it worked great: displayed my position on the map and displayed the traffic information in my area.
I have the Premium eval version on my TyTN but it wont do the phone triangulation. It only recognizes the wifi. Which I don't want to turn on at the moment.
I believe Navizon is having problems with supporting the TyTN. Tried the same thing and got the same results as you. Check the Navizon forum for updates i guess.
Thanks for the reply.... I'll keep an eye out.
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