On 12/16/14 7:22 AM, Dale Harvey wrote:
Here maps isnt installed by default on the user builds any more, however a lot of people, possibly using old builds or installing it themselves specifically mentioned that here maps wasnt good enough, particularly in relation to offline support. I am not sure many people realised here supports offline at all, however its behind a nokia login and fairly limited.
Just a nit, I've just downloaded maps for offline use without a log in the other day.
I'll do another dogfood pass today. Axel
The other part of this that was commonly called out was the GPS reliability, people complained about not being able to get a fix, it was unreliable or slow Fixing GPS obviously needs to be one of the highest priorities, I know its hard problem due to the interaction with the vendor however we cant be handwavey 'its a build issue' any more, if someone on the v188 with the latest gecko is not getting a fast GPS fix we need to know why, I walked around my area with mozstumbler specifically in the hope that it was a lack of agps coverage that was causing the slow fix, but it is still to slow to count on it existing at all, there are also an indication that there are gecko level breakages (one application has a fix, another doesnt, restart a map after having a fix and it will no longer have one) Also I do believe investing in a Mozilla Maps project would be highly valuable, I dont think any other company is going to invest in improving their web capable map applications to make them anywhere near competitive or as usable as the native equivalents and maps are too staple a smartphone feature to have a large gap in functionality. On 16 December 2014 at 04:09, Jonas Sicking <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: On Mon, Dec 15, 2014 at 6:11 AM, Dale Harvey <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Most people commented on the lack of specific apps. The lack of good GPS / > maps / navigation was by far the most commented on lack of functionality / > apps, then there were some common suspects, the most popular of these being > WhatsApp, DropBox, Spotify, Google Hangouts, Skype, Instagram Do we not have Here Maps installed on our dogfooding devices? I know that the builds I've been dogfooding with hasn't had it, but for some reason I was under the impression that the dogfooding builds we've been using more broadly has had it? Or is the problem that Here Maps isn't good enough? / Jonas
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