...the app is more bandwidth frugal. HTH

I'm not sure if the web site will do that. It seems like different parts of it are separated out in to different aps. Like the street view pictures and google earth.

maps.google.com provides basic mapping and direction services that are theoretically accessible from any connected device; Google Maps app provides realtime location (via GPS or network-based location) and turn-by-turn navigation, as well as the ability to save map data to your device so it will be available when there's no internet connection available.

You shouldn't be having any errors with Google Maps though. The Kindles run a bastardized version of Android; you can't really get things from Google Play; see if it's available in the Amazon Appstore. That should install and run just fine.

I had a (reader) Keyboard for about a year, now the Fire HD 8.9 and both of them had to be replaced, the reader just because the lettering rubbed off the keys (not from wild overuse), and the Fire just stopped turning on after two weeks.

Besides that, from the beginning the Kindle thing seemed "clunky" to me, the page turning buttons susceptible to random body movements that turned the pages through inadvertance followed by going back or forth to find the place. The Fire display, yes, can be locked portrait/landscape, but don't want to so have to stay imobile. The all-back, super thin thing needs some kind of a strap on the back to hold onto and their tag word for themselves is "sleek," less than a 1/4" thick, and the Power button and others are flush with the edge, under the beveled edge, and everything around the frame is all-black, so hard to find or even see and so tiny that my fat fingers can't fit or feel whether there is any "give" to the push of the button.

I did use the Amazon cover for the Kindle, and sewed on an elastic strap to it to be able to hang on to it with one hand in bed.

It just seems clunky, clumsy to navigate, menus hard to find. Probalby won't go Kindle after this.

is that the app doesn't rely so much on connectivity and bandwidth that the website does. There are a number of places where I get no service, so the app works so much better than a blank web page.

its little tough to say which is supreme depends on use and requirements,when talking about google apps i think they are beneficiary than google. You should be aware that a lot of non profits organizations, simple users, bloggers and others has been using Google Apps as the start point of their email, communication and collaboration activities. With Google Apps they have been able to send credible mails and protect more efficiently their activities rather than use the garbage offered by shared hosting. Each user has lot of GB for use, was able to create, 50 users at first, then has been reduced to 10, but was enough to use as a free and very complete package.

and then it shows up on my Google Maps app on my phone as a starred location, and I can then navigate to it using Navigator.