Xperia X GPS Poor Positioning

WhoGo maps has (at least temporarily) been replaced by a fork called Pure Maps.

I still consider Here We Go to be currently the best navigation app for Sailfish. The other options are good but not as polished.

@vattuvarg : Yup, I'm also testing it too. I've updated my answer to reflect Rinigus taking over the work.

@AlanBreen : ...technically HERE WeGo is an Android app. (That happens to work on those Sailfish installation that feature an Android compatibility layer. So mostly commercial Sailfish with Myriad's Alien-dalvik, and perhaps SFDroid)

Otherwise yes : it's a commercial effort by a large company with resource that has been going for quite some time, it's expected that it's going to be more polished that a small community effort that has recently started on the spare time of a few devs.

On the other hand, I have to admit that this opensource Sailfish navigation stack (OSM Scout + Pure Maps) starts to impress me positively with a few surprises compared to "supposedly polished commercial offering" such as my Tomtom satnav.

@DrYak: I agree the Sailfish navigation stack is impressive especially when you consider the comparative resources. I'm sorry If my comments sounded to be putting down the efforts of the Who GO/Pure Maps etc developers. They are doing a fantastic job

I particularly like the idea of the server which can be used for other applications needing a map i.e.Laufhelden

I will try Pure Maps or similar again in the near future. My main beef was the quality TTS and the choice of voices, I expect that will improve.

Currently regarding voices situations hasn't much improved yet. (Mimic is still the best available one).

But Rinigus has mentioned considering upgrading to Mimic2 (also by the Mycroft AI team, but this time a NN that is trained for direct text-to-wav (without intermediate steps such as syllables or phonemes) trained on a giant corpus. So it should eventually come to the same kind of level that Google is having.

The thing that impressed me in the current stack where more the tiny details :

• OpenStreetMaps database, as used by OSM Scout, is extremely well tagged (speeds, type of road, etc.). So when in rather remote area (was visiting Madeira island of Portugal), the Valhalla engine used by PureMaps can still navigate quite decently.
• Meanwhile, the Tomtom, even with this summer's latest map update, is still missing lots of information. Most of the streets are just edge between nodes without much information. So when going uphill on one of the steep parts, instead of instructing to stay on the main road that slowly twists up, the satnav advises to take a short cut through some tiny barely driveable short path (just because it's shorter on the map).
• In general, when on a mountain main road that twists up, and when there are small tiny side paths leading to chalets, etc. most satnavs (including Tomtom) will give an instruction such a "at the next intersection, take a right turn" (as if reaching a cross road between 2 main roads).
• the Valhalla engine used by PureMaps give much more logical instruction "turn right to stay on {name of main road}", making clear that the purpose is to stay on the main road.

Correct. I had to check the settings to enable the most accurate option, and I have had no issues since. The GPS only option worked, but getting the lock just took a long time.