Advice Request Windows Maps *HERE Maps discontinued*

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Windows Maps Features
  • Search for addresses, businesses, restaurants, hotels and local attractions.
  • Get driving, walking and public transport directions.
  • Pin your home, work or other favourite places to Start for one-tap guided directions from anywhere.
  • Choose alternative routes to avoid things such as traffic, tolls or transfers in driving and public transport directions.
  • Hear turn-by-turn voice-guided navigation on GPS-enabled devices.
  • When you arrive, let Maps help you remember where you parked your car.
  • Download maps to use them even without the Internet.
  • See your favourites and search history across all your Windows PCs and phones.
  • Explore the world in 3D with detailed imagery of more than 200 cities and landmarks.
  • See 360° panoramas of a place with Streetside views.
  • See current traffic, cameras and incidents on the map and plan your trip accordingly.
  • See airport gates, shops and more in indoor venue maps.
  • Get detailed business info such as phone numbers, directions, addresses, business hours and reviews.
  • Print and share step-by-step driving and walking directions.
  • Note: Some features may not be available on all devices and in all countries or regions.

HERE Blog: Important information about HERE apps on Windows Phone - HERE 360

Although the essence of the HERE apps lives on in the Windows Maps app, we are removing the HERE branded apps from the Windows 10 store on March 29, 2016 and will limit the development of the apps for Windows Phone 8 to critical bug fixes.

If you have a smartphone with Windows 10
In the last few months, we made the HERE apps compatible with Windows 10 by using a workaround that will no longer be effective after June 30, 2016. To continue offering the HERE apps for Windows 10 would require us to redevelop the apps from the ground up, a scenario that led to the business decision to remove our apps from the Windows 10 store.

This means the HERE apps will no longer work on devices running Windows 10 mobile after June 30, 2016. To prepare for this change, we have also decided to remove the HERE apps from the Windows 10 store on March 29, 2016.

For maps, routes and navigation, we recommend using the preinstalled Windows Maps application. The Windows Maps app contains many HERE elements since Microsoft has developed it using the HERE Platform and with assets they received from HERE in 2014. Based on your comments on HERE 360 and elsewhere, we know many of you are already having a good experience using Windows Maps.

If you have a smartphone with Windows Phone 8 or a PC with Windows 8
HERE is deeply integrated in the Windows Phone 8 operating system. The HERE apps for Windows Phone 8 will continue to work for you without any disruption. However, we made the business decision to stop the development of new features. Additionally, the maps developed specifically for Windows Phone will not be updated.
 

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Very odd decision in my view because not long ago they released HERE apps for iPhone and Android.

At this time of point Maps works like crap IMO. Even the old Waze app works better but is not always as accurate as the HERE apps. I'm testing other options like Mapfactor and Sygic.
 
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