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**waits for iphone lovers to come in and laugh** hehe...

Okay? Done, excellent :) Yes, I know Iphones can drop pins on locations :lol:

Right...

Being a rather recent convert over to android from an iphone, i can honestly say that i love my desire hd, its much smoother, quicker and generally more functional than any iphone i have ever owned. And then i "rooted" it and it now works in warp speed! :love:

I have found something that i can seem to get my android to do..... drop a pin, or place a custom poi on a map... Now i have done a bit of googling and found some threads from 2008/9 about this, and everyone was asking for it.....

My question is how can i do this? I've tried the various mapping apps that came with it, but to no avail. Simply put i want to be able to select a place on the map, be able to write a note about it "ie: nice ruins for night photography, come back soon!" and then be able to navigate to it at a later date. Also being able to view these locations in a list would be a bonus..

Can anyone help me or am i being silly?
 
I thought the Android came loaded with Google Maps? In which case you can do that. Otherwise you could create contacts as a PoI (Point of Interest) and then navigate to the contact maybe?

Not 100% how this works, this is my experience from the BlackBerry but I hear the iPhone does something similar so I would imagine so would the Android, sorry bit of a stab in the dark but most mobile operating systems have similar features.
 
It certainly should be easy but it isn't obvious if it is actually there. Android 2.2 seems to have about.three mapping apps built in and none of them do what I'm looking for. Thanks for the suggestion about making poi a contact, but this would mean fully and manually putting the address in it seems
 
What do you want to do with the pin once it's dropped? You might be able to use the 'share this' menu to accomplish the same thing?
 
In google maps, use 'starred places'.

Either find a point on a map, or a search result, and tap the star icon near the address.
That's all there is to it. :)
 
Footprint adds geo-tags to photos.

I don't see any need for additional apps for what the op is trying to achieve.
 
As mentioned gmaps does everything you want.

On a side note, how much are you paying for your Desire HD?

I wanted the Desire but the wife got it a month earlier, and you just cant have the same phone as your wife. On Tmobile its £40 a month and I wanted to drop from £35 to £30. :(
 
Harvey_nikon said:
On a side note, how much are you paying for your Desire HD?

I wanted the Desire but the wife got it a month earlier, and you just cant have the same phone as your wife. On Tmobile its £40 a month and I wanted to drop from £35 to £30. :(
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Orange/T-mobile £25/month.

What's this "rooting" thing to which you refer?
 
Harvey_nikon said:
As mentioned gmaps does everything you want.

On a side note, how much are you paying for your Desire HD?

I wanted the Desire but the wife got it a month earlier, and you just cant have the same phone as your wife. On Tmobile its £40 a month and I wanted to drop from £35 to £30. :(
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Thanks for all the help have managed to get "locations" to do the job, using the copy footprint function. Now I fan save my potential future togging spots and even assign a photo to remind myself.

I'm paying 30 quid a month for 900 mins, unlimited texts and unlimited data. Of course there is a fair usage policy, but hve never been caught out by these before. I'm on t-mobile. It was one of the first contracts offered for preordering back in September.
 
tikkathreebarrel said:
Orange/T-mobile £25/month.

What's this "rooting" thing to which you refer?
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It gives you "super admin access" simply put it allows you to remove pre installed junk apps, install an app that blocks all adverts, and a hell of a lot more. Im not overall clear myself on its full capacity but I know that if you do anymore than block apps you need to know what your doing. I don't lol.
 
stokes said:
Im not overall clear myself on its full capacity but I know that if you do anymore than block apps you need to know what your doing. I don't lol.
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Okay cheers. To borrow from Manuel of Fawlty Towers, I too "know naathing". Guess I'll leave Root where it is for now. A quick peep at one or two google search results on the subject allude to using Root to solve problems which pre-date the Desire HD or refer to Root incompatibility with the Desire. I need my phone to work, I can delete apps, I haven't - yet - seen pop-up ads. In some ways my old Palm OS Treo was still better but time marches on.
 
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