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Web mapping and navigation service since 2012

Hither WeGo
HERE logo.svg
The current HERE WeGo app
The current Android app
The current maps.here.com browser interface
The current spider web app
Developer(s) HERE Global B.V.
Initial release twenty November 2012; 9 years agone  (2012-11-20)
Stable release

two.0.12509 (Android), ii.0.41 (iOS) / 25 September 2018; three years agone  (2018-09-25), 5 December 2018; 3 years ago  (2018-12-05)

Operating system
  • Android, iOS, Tizen, Burn down OS, web
  • Critical updates only:
  • Windows Telephone
  • Discontinued:
  • Windows 10 Mobile, Windows, Symbian, Asha
Available in English
Website wego.here.com

Hither WeGo is a spider web mapping and navigation service, operated past Here Technologies and originally developed by Nokia. In 2013, HERE Technologies released this web mapping awarding for Windows Phone and the Earth Wide Web every bit a revamped version of Nokia Maps. HERE Technologies released the HERE Maps application to the Android platform on 10 Dec 2022 and subsequently for iOS on 11 March 2015. The company inverse the product name to Here WeGo in July 2016. It's the default maps service provider for the Amazon Fire tablets and smartphone.

HERE WeGo is based on the Hither platform, a fully integrated location data platform. HERE Technologies provided its in-house data, which includes satellite views, traffic information, and other location services.[1] [2] Maps are updated every two or three months.[3]

Timeline and availability [edit]

Nokia/Ovi Maps [edit]

In 2006, Nokia purchased a Berlin-based start-upwardly, Gate5, with a mapping software called smart2go. In February 2007 Nokia announced that smart2go would be available gratuitous on the S60 Symbian platform and on Windows Mobile 5.0. It was pre-installed on handsets, including Nokia N95, which featured Global Positioning System (GPS) technology.[4] In Baronial 2007 the smart2go awarding was reworked into Ovi Maps, named under the new umbrella Ovi brand, released for S60 third Edition devices.[five] Months later, Nokia bought Navteq, a provider of digital map systems.

Ovi Maps version 2.0 went into public beta in February 2008 and released in May.[six] Version iii.0 was released in July 2009.[7]

Turn-past-turn navigation and traffic information originally required a subscription, but in January 2010 Nokia announced that these would exist provided for free.[viii] In 2011 information technology became Nokia Maps.[9] It was released for Nokia Lumia in November 2011, coming preloaded on the devices.[10] Versions for the Nokia N900 and Nokia N9 were also made.

HERE Maps [edit]

In November 2012, Nokia rebranded Nokia Maps as Here Maps.[11] The rebranded version was first released for iOS and afterwards in February 2013 for all Windows Phone 8 devices.[12] It was also released on the Nokia Asha platform and Firefox OS.[13] The legacy Symbian and Series 40 versions carried using the onetime proper name without HERE branding.

The Here awarding was first announced for Android as a beta test version for some Samsung Galaxy smartphones on 29 August 2014.[14] The app was downloadable from eight October 2022 from Samsung's Milky way Apps Store.[15] Information technology was also launched on the same day for the Samsung Gear Due south smartwatch.[16] The kickoff public release of the beta Here app (across all of the Android platform was on 21 October 2014, every bit an APK download from the Hither.com Spider web site.[17] The app became available in the Google Play store from ten December 2014.[xviii] On 12 February 2022 a stable version of Here was released on the Google Play store.[19]

The Web site wego.here.com (formerly here.com) evolved out of the maps.ovi.com and then maps.nokia.com site and provides the spider web companion to the Here suite. It works on all major browsers. Users tin can organize their favorite places on collections and sync to mobile devices. The Web awarding also uses WebGL to offer 3D map views without a plugin. With 3D goggles, users can get stereoscopic views of 25 cities. Information technology too provides detailed street-level imaging for many cities.[20] Equally of 2013 the Web site offers routing support betwixt many waypoints, metropolis pages of over l popular cities showing local fourth dimension and weather condition conditions, along with information from Alone Planet and suggested places, 3D maps of 25 cities, with routing back up.[21] [22] Live traffic flow visualisation. public send search, synchronization of user's points of interest (Collections) between the Spider web site and mobile device. heatmaps visualizing areas popular for food, nightlife, shopping and local sights in select cities, listing and managing businesses (Here PrimePlaces).

On 9 July 2022 Here launched a new public beta of its Android app.[23] As of June 2022 the Here app was available as a free app in 118 countries and territories beyond the world for the Android and iOS platforms.[xviii] On 3 September 2022 Here announced that its app would be available for the Samsung Gear S2 when the smartwatch is released later this fall.[24]

In late 2022 Facebook began using Here's maps for their applications, moving from Microsoft's map offering, Bing.[25]

In December 2015, Hither, at the time a division of Nokia, was sold to a consortium of German automotive companies (comprising Audi AG, BMW AG and Daimler AG) as Hither Global BV.[26] [27] [28] [29]

On 15 March 2022 Here announced that information technology would discontinue support for its app for Windows 10 Mobile on 29 March 2022 due to its apply of "a workaround that volition no longer exist effective after June 30, 2016", and that the existing Windows Phone eight app volition only receive critical updates later this engagement and no longer be actively developed. Hither Maps licensed by Microsoft are notwithstanding offered equally part of the existing Bing Maps-based software on these devices.[30]

Here WeGo [edit]

On 27 July 2022 the mapping service was updated and re-branded Hither WeGo; the update start launched on Android, and is followed by an iOS version and a relaunch of the web version. The update and rebranding focuses on navigation capabilities, including the improver of taxi fare information in some cities, and integration with Daimler's Car2Go service.[31] Tizen smartphone and smartwatch apps have been rebranded, too. In April 2022 HERE WeGo introduced CarPlay integration for iOS. The Android version was too published in Huawei App Gallery. Equally a response to COVID-19 delivery tools demand, HERE WeGo Deliver[32] product was launched.

Features [edit]

Some features are available offline with a downloaded map, others require a data connexion, and some besides crave the user to be signed in.

Turn-by-turn navigation [edit]

HERE WeGo provides turn-by-turn navigation in both offline and online modes. Users can enter a destination address, landmark, or business name, and then the app automatically calculates directions and distance to the destination. Real-time traffic data (where available) is also factored and a prediction made on arrival fourth dimension to the destination.[33]

Depending on the smartphone model, HERE WeGo provides pre-recorded navigation voices as well as text-to-speech commands with street names.

Public send, pedestrian, and bike navigation [edit]

Public ship data is displayed by the Here app whilst planning a route while online, for transport options such as buses, trams, subways and trains. Walking[34] and cycling[35] routes are also supported. Time and distance estimates are provided for these modes, and driving navigation.

Real-fourth dimension traffic and reversible lane traffic [edit]

Equally of March 2017[update] Hither WeGo had real-time information on traffic weather condition and incidents bachelor for 63 countries.[36]

In late June 2022 Hither added real-fourth dimension traffic for reversible express lanes across the United States and Europe.[37]

'Collections' and location sharing [edit]

Users can salvage the location and details of destinations as 'Collections' if they are online and signed in.[38] It is not possible to store destinations offline, on the device. Location and destination can be shared with standard platform tool. Equally of 23 Oct 2017[update] in that location was no choice to sort collections by name or distance in the Spider web, Android, and iOS versions.

Offline maps [edit]

HERE WeGo can download maps of countries and regions to internal storage so that a information connection is not needed for navigation. Online usage provides alive traffic information and additional venue information.[39]

The maps include floor-past-floor details of some big indoor venues such every bit shopping malls and airports.[xl]

CarPlay and Android Machine [edit]

If a machine is equipped with CarPlay connectivity component, Hither WeGo awarding on iPhone can be projected to the machine in-dash navigation screen and controlled as whatever other built-in awarding. Upwardly to July 2022 at that place were no public data nigh introducing Android Automobile integration.

Time to come coverage [edit]

There is a web page "Here automobile drive schedule - Drive schedule for our map data collection cars", with entries typically for the electric current and following month.[41]

Download statistics [edit]

Statistics published by Here country that information technology reached one million downloads on the Android platform a couple of weeks after launch and, 12 weeks after its launch, reached two.5 one thousand thousand downloads,[42] increasing to iii million by mid-Feb 2015,[nineteen] and to iv 1000000 through the Google Play store alone by March 2015.[42] By 4 August 2022 Google Play downloads had increased to v million, and to ten million by early on 2016.[43]

Previous versions [edit]

Symbian^3/Belle [edit]

Here was available on the Symbian^3 platform under the name Nokia Maps. The last version, 3.09, included:

  • Driving and walking plow-by-turn with international phonation guidance
  • Live traffic rerouting in some countries
  • Live traffic visualization on the map in some countries
  • Third-party content such as ViaMichelin and Solitary Planet
  • Social networking service integration
  • Support for preloading street maps for offline use
  • Users tin written report errors in the maps (from version iii.03 except on Nokia E66 and E71 models)[44] [45]
  • Local atmospheric condition atmospheric condition by the hour and forecasts for the week
  • Dark View mod
  • Satellite maps and terrain maps
  • 3D buildings and 3D maps
  • Public transport routing in some cities
  • Saving of favorites
  • City Lens (augmented reality) (Beta only)[46]

Nokia said that the Nokia 808 from 2012 would be the terminal Symbian phone;[47] Symbian development then stopped. Accenture was responsible for maintenance of Symbian and Nokia Maps until 2016.[46]

The supported phones were:

  • Version iii.09 (12 November 2012, also called Maps Suite two.0): only for Symbian Belle phones (500, 603, 700, 701, N8-00, E7-00, C7-00, C6-01, X7-00, E6-00)
  • Version iii.08 (15 November 2011) and 3.07: supported on Symbian^three
  • Version iii.06 (2 Dec 2010): Symbian S60v5 (N97, N97 mini, X6, C6-00, 5800XM, 5235 & 5230, etc.)
  • Version 3.04 (xx May 2010): Symbian S60v3 FP2

Asha/S40 [edit]

Maps for S40 were limited compared to other platforms. The maps were streamed online into the device or pre-downloaded with Nokia Suite. In some markets the phones were sold with an SD bill of fare preloaded with local maps. The system did not support turn-by-turn navigation. Asha serial phones did not have GPS receivers; positioning was washed by Cell ID of the cellular network or past using the Wi-Fi positioning system.

See also [edit]

  • TomTom
  • Comparison of satellite navigation software
  • Comparison of web map services

References [edit]

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  34. ^ "Using Hither for Android to become around with transit and on foot". HERE 360.
  35. ^ Here launches beta test of bike routing on Android, 360 Here. Retrieved half-dozen August 2016.
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  38. ^ "Managing Collections with HERE for Android and iOS". HERE 360.
  39. ^ "Offline navigation actually matters if 500 MB of data costs a calendar week in wages". HERE 360.
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