Multi-touch enabled Google maps?

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Hey Everyone,

I'm really enjoying the multi touch in the browser and the album. However, it is disappointing that it does not work in Google maps... I thought I saw a version that ran on the G1 that worked with multi touch, is that something we can get on the Eris? Or do we need root first?

Thanks!

i would say root first of course

I don't know if it's possible to crack the Google Maps application but thats the only way i see of getting Multi-Touch in there. But yeah I don't think there is one...Laxattack is there a multi-touch google maps for root users?

I thought I saw a GMaps that used multi-touch when the G1 was first hacked to take advantage of it years ago. But I did some Googling tonight and it appears it was just a very simple demo/wrapper app that "basically just wraps a WebView and displays your current location on the map, which you can then scroll around and zoom into/out of".

It does have an .apk link though... article is here:
http://lukehutch.wordpress.com/2009/...bile-g1-today/

(Scroll down to the middle under MTMapsDemo). I had heard Google will be releasing Multi-touch enabled Google apps soon for the Nexus 1, so hopefully they'll come to the Eris too.

Multitouch requires root for most apps.

An official multi-touch version of Google maps was released for the Nexus 1 today...
http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/02/n...es-multitouch/

Hopefully if/when we get Root this can be ported over to the Eris!

Multitouch is part of 2.1. If we get 2.1, we get multitouch. Without 2.1, we need root.