Is this Nokia ad accurate?

[thermal]

Nokia is touting that their maps are better than Google's or Apple's.

Nokia stacks up its maps next to Apple's and Google's, politely suggests it comes out on top -- Engadget

Is this advertisement accurate?

 

[Unforgiven]

Possibly. I believe Nokia is using one of the GPS vendors maps and stores them all on the device whereas Google Maps allows for only a certain amount of caching of offline apps.

 

[ari-free]

Google Lat Long: Go offline with Google Maps for Android

 

[EarlyMon]

Possibly. I believe Nokia is using one of the GPS vendors maps and stores them all on the device whereas Google Maps allows for only a certain amount of caching of offline apps.

Unless you add one of many offline map apps for Android.

People use Android for waypoint/maritime navigation, no data connection required.

 

[ari-free]

Unless you add one of many offline map apps for Android.

People use Android for waypoint/maritime navigation, no data connection required.

Yes there are other options for Android and you can set them to be the new defaults.

 

[breadnatty08]

Used offline support (cached maps) when I was in Mexico and it worked great!
Not sure how Nokia does it, but if I know I may be venturing into an area where data is scarce or non-existent, I'll just preload the swath I need. Not the most elegant solution, but still free and easy enough.

 

[ari-free]

I don't agree with all of Nokia's decisions but they are definitely innovating.

 

[zuben el genub]

Nokia had fairly decent maps with Symbian. Now that they've allied with MS, wouldn't they base maps on Bing?

 

[bigdrew]

Nokia spent something like $8B (billion!) on Navteq a couple of years ago, and I think that supplies their map data, but maybe it's based on Bing now. I precache maps also, but offline use is really a backup; I think accurate up-to-date data is more important. Also street view (invaluable), live traffic, detailed POI info, and restaurant ratings are important to me, and these will never work without a data connection. I don't think it's fair to say that either of the three map solutions truly work offline.