Comments on: Whereis navigates on Apple® iPhone™

By: Mark Tylinski [Telstra Employee]

Mark Tylinski [Telstra Employee] — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 02:42:53 +0000

Rob, Thanks for the link. A suggestion once again relating to map corrections. Your Home page link (on Whereis) should be called “Report Map Errors”, not Report Map Corrections. Makes more sense.

By: Palah

Palah — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 09:02:10 +0000

know Iphone app thread but a report on Whereis Nav as use gps everyday & had on HTC TP2 (Wm6.5) for about 10 months… in the main find very useable, (used tom Tom, Destinator, Garmin XT etc) the lane notifcations are good, re-routing is quick…Maps in Sydney west are good(only come across handful of closed roads/no right/left etc) the chicks voice is bearable …. the negs …dont trust the speed alert(as frequently wrong), Does not recognise NO school zones on holidays …speed alert has been ding ding ding all Jan. being offboard maps, had the ‘cannot connect message, try later or contact support’ (only ever rang support once )… each time my mobile has had full signal…this has been the greatest bugbear (happened 2 -3 times in dec) ….going to a E7 when released as Ovi Maps are not only free but maps are ‘onboard’ so no need to wait for W Nav to verify subscription… but when working find in the main a good program & $9.95 amonth (was $14.95) is fair

By: GW

GW — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 05:45:19 +0000

Thanks Rob, start to expect more errors being reported

Cheers

By: rob finney

rob finney — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 05:17:44 +0000

hi all

There have been some requests made regarding how to raise map errors and anomolies to Sensis

http://www.whereismaps.com/report-map-corrections.aspx

You can do this via Whereis.com or alternately via the link above to whereismaps

regards
rob

By: Mark Tylinski [Telstra Employee]

Mark Tylinski [Telstra Employee] — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 04:55:51 +0000

My comment is directed to Rob from Sensis Whereis. This relates to the base map info provided by your company. The map info is also used by Garmin as an example on their Nuvi range of road GPS units. Outside Metro Melbourne and I suspect many other major metro locations, your speed limits are often incorrect and not even shown on major roads. I know you say you strive to “fix” these anomalies, but how does the end user at least have an opportunity to convey that information to you so that a timely update of the maps can be made? We can’t afford to wait 2 years plus for these form of updates if they come at all. Can you please provide a portal on your web site to accept feedback and suggestions (locations of errors at least) so that they may be followed up by your staff. Thanks.

By: GW

GW — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 23:42:22 +0000

Thanks Rob

Yes I am sure what ‘cough’ Choice has to say all sounds great but in reality that all means little if your ‘consumer’ is saying otherwise. You only need to read some of the comments in here to see that others also have similar issues when using whereis.

If you can provide me with an off blog contact email address I will be happy to send to you the list of errors as I find them from now on… I cannot remember all the past ones as I did not record them at the time, but I can assure you that they were numerous.

Thanks

By: rob finney

rob finney — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 23:09:21 +0000

hi GW

Rob from Sensis Whereis here. We definitely acknowlege that there is always room for improvement with our map data. But rest assured that independent consumer organisations such as Choice rate our map data as of the highest quality. Recently Choice provided a list of 9 top portable navigation devices – 8 of which carried Whereis maps. They also lauded the quality of our rural and regional map coverage over competitors (in partcular Navteq). Part of this quality is driven by a process of actively addressing anomolies identified by map users. If you could list some specific examples of map coverage gaps and/ or errors for us to chase up it would be greatly appreciated.

By: Benno

Benno — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 04:49:56 +0000

I used my Samsung Galaxy S this morning on my way to work from home & used the Android Version of the whereis navigator App only (no phone calls, not listening to music etc) and I was very surrprised to see how HOT the phone got for the 20-25 journey. The phone was 100% full charged when I left home & it was around 79% when I parked the car.

By: Adam (Telstra Staff)

Adam (Telstra Staff) — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 01:21:23 +0000

Google Maps offers the service for free, and the maps are pretty good!

By: Mario Lazakovic

Mario Lazakovic — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 08:16:30 +0000

… Did anyone test this app before releasing it?

On first use (iPhone 4), I punched in the destination address, and that was all good. About half way through the trip I decided to put my iPhone on standby (clicked on Home button and then Power button). Screen was black. I placed my iphone in the laptop bag. 30 min later I took the phone out of the bag only to be surprised how HOT it got. I ‘ve been using other SATNAV apps on iphone and never had this issue. It would be interesting to see if anyone else here had the same problem.

Also,

Get the price down before other people start loughing at this app. It is priced too high especially with the fact that it comes with a subscription fee. (Hint: check pricing for other iphone sat-nav apps, and as suggested by someone else here there are free apps available too)