Our buddies over at Electricpig.co.uk have been busy, mashing things about in their HTC Magic (an Android device) to get Google Maps Navigation running outside the US – in the UK specifically. It looks like it’s working pretty good, but I’ll them take up the story:
Google Maps Navigation might be US only according to Google, but who are we to tow the official line? With the help of our trusty readers, we’ve gone and got the free satnav software running in the UK already. No need for a US passport, and no need for a Motorola Droid!
With little to no jiggery pokery, we’ve got Google Maps Navigation working on our lowly HTC Magic, despite it supposedly only being available across the pond. As you can see in the screenshots, it has no problems figuring out turn by turn routes around London and showing off with Street View, although there are still a few kinks: Google Maps Navigation’s voice command feature won’t work at the moment, chucking up a few errors and then quitting.
Wowzer! Good work guys! There should be more development on this over the coming days – so check out the guys’ original post here – we’ll keep you up to date also!
[Via: Electricpig.co.uk]