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Maps.me, a free offline and open-source app for Android and iOS [14] Mapy.cz, a free online and offline navigation app for Android, iOS and Windows [15] Organic Maps, a free and open-source offline map and navigation app for Android, iOS, iPadOS, macOS and Linux [16] OsmAnd, a free online and offline navigation app for Android, Fire OS and iOS [17]
Ovi Maps version 2.0 went into public beta in February 2008 and was released in May. [6] Version 3.0 was released in July 2009. [7] Turn-by-turn navigation and traffic information originally required a subscription, but in January 2010 Nokia announced that these would be provided for free. [8] In 2011 it became Nokia Maps. [9]
In November 2014, it was acquired by Mail.Ru Group and became part of its My.com brand. [11] In September 2015, the app was open sourced [12] and a free and open-source software version was additionally made available on F-droid. [13] In November 2020 Mail.ru Group sold Maps.me to the payment processor Daegu Limited, part of Parity.com Group. [14]
Google Maps' location tracking is regarded by some as a threat to users' privacy, with Dylan Tweney of VentureBeat writing in August 2014 that "Google is probably logging your location, step by step, via Google Maps", and linked users to Google's location history map, which "lets you see the path you've traced for any given day that your ...
The Cape to Cape Walk Track is a long-distance walk trail located in the far south-west corner of Western Australia, 250 kilometres (160 mi) south of Perth. It meanders along the whole length of the Leeuwin-Naturaliste Ridge, which forms the backbone of the Leeuwin-Naturaliste National Park .
It used inertial navigation systems, which tracked the distance traveled, the start point, and direction headed. [6] It was also the first with a map display. [5] 1981: Navigation computer on the Toyota Celica (NAVICOM). [7] 1983: Etak was founded. It made an early system that used map-matching to improve on dead reckoning instrumentation.
That is, 7.92 units of distance are equivalent to 1 unit of climb. For convenience an 8 to 1 rule can be used. So, for example, if a route is 20 kilometres (12 mi) with 1600 metres of climb (as is the case on leg 1 of the Bob Graham Round , Keswick to Threlkeld), the equivalent flat distance of this route is 20+(1.6×8)=32.8 kilometres (20.4 mi).
Walk Score was founded in July 2007 by Mike Mathieu [3] [4] and aided by Matt Lerner, Jesse Kocher, and Josh Herst, formerly of Madrona Venture Group.. In August 2010, the company launched Transit Score to help users understand the proximity of public transport to an address.