[windybaseball]

Hi, Guys:
The wait is almost over.
The power of real GPS is 100% unleashed. Consumers can be liberated from the cell phone network to enjoy GPS navigation service, which means, if you get stuck somewhere in Montana in a cold winter day without cell phone signal, then this offline GPS will save your life !

A lot of users reported success on www*berrymail*cn with a new software gpsmaps, which can be downloaded from www*gpslook*net

I cannot figure out how to make north american maps for this software, maybe some experts can help.

Finally, no monthly fee for GPS on blackbarry !

[JSanders]

Hard to test... both of the above are Chinese websites.

If you are able to get these to work, please do report back.

There are at least to other offline GPS mapping solutions, listed in this GPS section.

[windybaseball]

Originally Posted by JSanders

Hard to test... both of the above are Chinese websites.

If you are able to get these to work, please do report back.

There are at least to other offline GPS mapping solutions, listed in this GPS section.

In fact, I just returned to the states from China. Two days ago in Shanghai, I tried this program and worked great !

It's not just an offline mapping, it is a real navigation, but also works as standalone navigation tool, like Garmin GPS or TomTom GPS.

I hope some experts here can explore the software source code and help us on how to make North American map for this program.

[Iare Tosevite]

Will it work with 8830? It seems to me that gps won't work on 8830 without phone network connection. :(

[windybaseball]

Originally Posted by Iare Tosevite

Will it work with 8830? It seems to me that gps won't work on 8830 without phone network connection. :(

It worked on my 8800, others reported success on 8820.
Even on BB without integrated GPS, you can connect to external gps puck to get it running on device like 8700.

The beauty is, cannot be over emphasized, it works even there is NO cell phone signal ! Because you can download map data to memory card and use it offline !

The perception of using GPS requires cell phone network is
a very bad idea, which is motivated by business cash flow.
GPS should give users freedom anywhere, anytime, not limited to cell phone network.

[FF2]

I did not realize that the BB was popular enough in China to support a gps application.

I guess I will ask - are those sites safe to visit? I'm a bit reluctant to "travel" to China and get bitten by some hijacking page.

[jay89]

This looks like what we've been wanting... if you translate the page with google you can read about it although the translation is no where near perfect... maybe it would be possible for a programer to take this guys program and translate it to english and give us a usable offline gps ....

[JSanders]

You already have off-line GPS.

http://www.blackberryforums.com/gps-...ations-bb.html

[Sith_Apprentice]

mobilegmaps works as well check the gps section

[jorgeledesmadds]

Can't wait to see this.

[FF2]

I guess one really needs to read chinese to navigate anything useful on those sites.

Let us know if anyone gets anywhere.

[JSanders]

Originally Posted by FF2

Let us know if anyone gets anywhere.

Gets where?... it is already available.

[jorgeledesmadds]

Can someone put these procedures in English from the chineese site

[funkym]

Originally Posted by windybaseball

Hi, Guys:
The wait is almost over.
The power of real GPS is 100% unleashed. Consumers can be liberated from the cell phone network to enjoy GPS navigation service, which means, if you get stuck somewhere in Montana in a cold winter day without cell phone signal, then this offline GPS will save your life !

A lot of users reported success on www*berrymail*cn with a new software gpsmaps, which can be downloaded from www*gpslook*net

I cannot figure out how to make north american maps for this software, maybe some experts can help.

Finally, no monthly fee for GPS on blackbarry !

hey mate, just download google maps mobile and you got the same

[windybaseball]

Originally Posted by funkym

hey mate, just download google maps mobile and you got the same

Can you save the downloaded google maps to your blackberry and reuse it in the area with zero cell signal ?
If not, you still remain slave of cell network coverage rather than live freely thanks to the wide coverage of GPS satellites.

[jungleland]

Originally Posted by funkym

hey mate, just download google maps mobile and you got the same

wrong...

[tontoeman]

hey i'm going to shanghai in a few days do you know how i can download this? does it work well there? A link would be EXTREMELY helpful, i'm not great a chinese characters but i'm good enough to do streets, thank you

this is exactly what i need, can you find a link for me so i can download it?

i have a tmobile 8820, if you could just tell me what to download and how to put it on and use it, i would be extremely grateful

thanks

tontoe

[flippet]

Sorry to resurrect this thread, but did anybody ever get anywhere with this?

[ATLSport]

Just an FYI, Mobilegmaps has a known problem that when you load Googlemaps (i.e. just log into it), it deletes mobilegmaps (doesn't seem to uninstall, just deletes any way of loading the program, so you basically have to reinstall). Seems to be a known issue on mobilegmap's web site from what I've read there. I'm looking for a way to do offline GPS maps too, but I depend too much on Googlemaps to not use it, which seems the only way you can use mobilegmaps.

[takeshi]

Originally Posted by flippet

Sorry to resurrect this thread, but did anybody ever get anywhere with this?

I doubt it. I frequent this subforum and I haven't seen anything. As you can see this topic has been dead for the past 6 months.