{"id":2346,"date":"2009-02-21T03:06:04","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T18:06:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=2346"},"modified":"2009-02-21T03:06:04","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T18:06:04","slug":"new-20-car-navi-iphone-app-heading-to-top-of-paid-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/new-20-car-navi-iphone-app-heading-to-top-of-paid-list\/","title":{"rendered":"New $20 Car Navi iPhone App Heading To Top Of Paid List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2355\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/zenrin_logo.gif\" alt=\"zenrin_logo\" width=\"93\" height=\"44\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmap.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ZENRIN DataCom&#8217;s[J]<\/a> new application is a valiant push toward a genuine GPS car navigation system for the iPhone 3G. It&#8217;s currently sitting at No. 4 on the App Store&#8217;s Top Paid list and it only(!) costs 1,800 yen (at the time of writing, just under US$20). The application&#8217;s name is \u3044\u3064\u3082\u30ca\u30d3 \u5730\u56f3\uff0b\u30eb\u30fc\u30c8 (apologies if this is unintelligible) which translates roughly to &#8220;AnyTime Navi: Maps+Routes&#8221;. (OS 2.1 or higher required.)<br \/>\nThe maps are multi-touch and their data is optimized for the iPhone, while the route data covers almost all of Japan with 400,000 entries (map and route data are ZENRIN&#8217;s own).<br \/>\nFunctions include route planning, toll road information (toll roads are quite common here), GPS tracking, search (using keyword and\/or data types). These functions and others can be gleaned from the following screen shots.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/zenrin1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2348 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/zenrin1-400x266.jpg\" alt=\"zenrin1\" width=\"400\" height=\"266\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/zenrin2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2349 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/zenrin2-266x400.jpg\" alt=\"zenrin2\" width=\"266\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/zenrin3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2350 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/zenrin3-266x400.jpg\" alt=\"zenrin3\" width=\"266\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/zenrin4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2351 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/img.asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/zenrin4-266x400.jpg\" alt=\"zenrin4\" width=\"266\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Without voice instructions, the app can&#8217;t replace a standard navigation system, and could prove dangerous if constantly monitored by a driver. Using handheld devices while driving is against Japan&#8217;s Road Traffic Act.<br \/>\nThe iPhone&#8217;s SDK does not allow realtime route guidance, but this app gets pretty darn close.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZENRIN DataCom&#8217;s[J] new application is a valiant push toward a genuine GPS car navigation system for the iPhone 3G. It&#8217;s currently sitting at No. 4 on the App Store&#8217;s Top Paid list and it only(!) costs 1,800 yen (at the time of writing, just under US$20). The application&#8217;s name is \u3044\u3064\u3082\u30ca\u30d3 \u5730\u56f3\uff0b\u30eb\u30fc\u30c8 (apologies if this&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/new-20-car-navi-iphone-app-heading-to-top-of-paid-list\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New $20 Car Navi iPhone App Heading To Top Of Paid List<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5,17,23],"tags":[1432,1732,2210,2540],"class_list":["post-2346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cellular-phone","category-japan","category-new-service","tag-gps","tag-iphone","tag-map","tag-navigation","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}