Nokia Beta Labs

Snap to roads

Please make it possible to turn of the way one's position snaps to nearby roads.

Colour Scheme

The system calculated route is given as a light blue highlight. The distance box on the map in straight line mode is a light blue box. Within both there is white writing: either street or distance. This is very difficult to read. Different colour scheme would benefit those of us with poor eyesight.

Tracking

Option for a saved red dot track. To both create our own off road route and enable crumbs for track back.Could be uploadable to Ovi maps?

Or rather than red dots why not red arrows giving direction of travel. A track back button could reverse the arrows for a path back?

Way Points

Pre journey Multiple way points to be easily set through the double screen tap method. Multiple way points to be added during travel possibly through single button press.

System generated routes

In urban navigation with street mode active an additional option for secondary roads or tertiary roads only. This would reduce the system generated routes adding major roads with no footpaths.

Step counter, some decimal in speed, and clock.

It would be nice have the step counter too.
It would be nice too have some decimal on speed i.e. 4,23 km/h not only 4 km/h or 5 km/h
the time over the transfer traffic kb is the time of arrival or the clock time? if the second it could be placed between options and stop and have the same time of the clock of the phone (there is one minute of differences.
Navio

Nokia N97 V12.0.024 RM 505

Better way instead "head north" or "head east"

As 5800 owners don't have digital compass the gps does not know if we're looking north or south but when it starts the walk navigation it says "head north" or east or south ..

it should have a better way to identify more accurately where to go.

yesterday I left the metro and I was supposed to "head east" but how will I know if is right or left or even worst am I in the right side of the street?

and because there ARE A LOT of errors on maps here in South America the GPS took 5 minutes to figure out that I was going to a wrong direction but because it doesn't have a "recalculation" mode I just found out when I stopped getting instructions over the phone, you know, it is not safe to walk with a mobile on the streets.

More details on the map

I can suggest stuffs from my last trip to London:

If I am using the walking mode on a mobile it means I really have no idea about the place I am, so it would be nice to have more information available:

- Subway station would be great (haven't found on places to show on map);
- Clock and Weather, a small icon/number on the corner;
- Sun-rise and Sun-set, it is good if you want to appreciate them on a park;
- Residencial, Commercial, Industrial area zones;
- Zones where "tourist people" usually go (where to find lots of shops, parks, etc like Via Sol in Madrid, I am new on the city so have no idea where on a map I should go to see stuffs);

If I get a "high speed" on walking mode it should "pause", it may be because I got a bus, a train, or a bike, that doesn't mean I am on a car avoiding the driving navigation fee.

If you lost signal when it lock again it shouldn't recalculate not stop navigation, there are tunnels, subway, shop malls we usually get into before get to the final destination.

- "repeat" what was just said would be good too
- detour, sometimes you are directed to a street and when you get there you really want to avoid it

- users should be allowed to "send" routes, based on the number of these new routes it would be included into the maps, and the other users can allow or not have this "personalized" routes, so we will have better accuracy on the go and not sticked to a delayed map upgrade.

ok .. no more ideas :-p