Nokia N95 Off Road Maps - who's got them?

Brett,

OziExplorer is a mapping program that only runs on Windows or Windows Mobile operating systems. It does not come with it's own maps. You need to install raster based maps such as NATMAP.

As far as maps are concerned, it would depend on what type of digital map (raster, topographical, etc.) the phone software requires.

At a guess I would say the maps required would be "proprietary" and only load and run on a Nokia device.

I would suggest Nokia themselves, or one of the mobile phone forums/knowledge bases for further information.

Your phone will take tomtom, its still vector but I think better than nokia maps.

Good luck.

Brett

Someone on This link will know for sure.

I think I read somewhere (not sure where - the brain is going) that the Nokia 95 only operates with "assisted GPS" - you need to be in a mobile service area for it to work.

Goerge

There are two issues here.

1st - OziExplorer is not maps - it is mapping software. Currently it doesn't run on Symbian (The operating system in N95 phones), so unless Des's current rewrite is including Symbian support (I've seen nothing to suggest that) it is still quite some way off.

2nd - maps - well a lot of the maps are really supporting NAVIGATION software (like the standard Nokia stuff) - the maps generally used with OziEx are just raster maps for moving map displays and the like, and do not have the requisite information to distinguish what are roads/tracks etc. Without software that can read the GPS and display the moving map, for instance, the maps are not much use.

Lastly, it seems that third party software for the N95 might have difficulty accessing the GPS in the phone - although Nokia might have fixed that or might fix that in the future.

For now, navigation on roads with the requisite different type of detail is what the N95 provides as far as I can tell.

Check out SmartCom GPS
And also Mobile GMaps

Cheers
Glenn

Cheers guys, I'll try the HEMA Raster maps but not to fussed if it doesn't work, the GPS is just a "nice thing to have" in this phone.

I'll get onto those sites you've all given me and see what's there.

Cheers again!

Hi you could try google maps for mobiles, not what your realy after. but i just down loaded it on to my pda.
It has street maps and satellite pictures as well. works good
you will have to configure your com ports and baud rate to communicate with the gps and your away.
the sat photos are good the gps shows the part of the house I am in the definition is that good.

Is this the same post as in the 4wdaction forum.

From what I read you need a bluetooth GPS as well cos the inbuilt Gps wont work with other than the Nokia maps