...... All while Apple and Google are probably skipping down the street hand in hand laughing at us on their way to the bank.
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Redesigned Google Maps App with iPad Support and Explore Feature Hits the App Store
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...... All while Apple and Google are probably skipping down the street hand in hand laughing at us on their way to the bank.
Yay for iPad support!
I'm also excited for the airport info. It's always nice to know if you need to hit the deli in this terminal, or wait for one closer to your gate.
I do wish the bookmarks feature (now "saved places") was as easy to access as before Apple kicked them out.
I'm also excited for the airport info. It's always nice to know if you need to hit the deli in this terminal, or wait for one closer to your gate.
I do wish the bookmarks feature (now "saved places") was as easy to access as before Apple kicked them out.
Most desired feature: Clicking the "directions" button in Safari opens the route in Apple Maps...
This thread is about Google maps running on Apple devices, which is relevant news because Google Maps is no longer the default mapping service on Apple devices because Apple decided to replace Google Maps with Apple maps. It's perfectly reasonable to talk about them together.
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I'd add the same for "location" in iCal. At least we know that feature is coming
How dare we be passionate about products/solutions/innovation.
I'm starting to think you guys woke up in a MacRumors forum and didn't actually type the URL knowingly.
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Thank you! If I wanted product news un-colored by Mac talk I would visit the thousands of other tech-news sources that are not specific in serving to Mac culture. In fact I do visit those other sites. But I specifically visit this one forum called MacRumors to read news and discussion in the context of the Apple ecosystem.
Unfortunately, many here are confused by what this forum is about and do not share in my value.
Google Maps 2.0 also supports offline maps on iOS
Article didn't mention it, but the new version also supports offline maps. Just zoom to the map area you'd like cached, type "Ok maps" in the search bar and press search button. It'll cache the visible portion of the map. The mall/airport indoor maps, and the fact that it offers turn-by-turn voice directions on iPhone 4 (which Apple Maps doesn't) make this a winner at least on the iPhone 4 ... iPhone 4S and above, there are certain aspects of Apple Maps that are superior (the 3D rendered buildings and iOS integration being two)
Article didn't mention it, but the new version also supports offline maps. Just zoom to the map area you'd like cached, type "Ok maps" in the search bar and press search button. It'll cache the visible portion of the map. The mall/airport indoor maps, and the fact that it offers turn-by-turn voice directions on iPhone 4 (which Apple Maps doesn't) make this a winner at least on the iPhone 4 ... iPhone 4S and above, there are certain aspects of Apple Maps that are superior (the 3D rendered buildings and iOS integration being two)
I used Google Maps to get to Washington DC last we and it only sent me the wrong way three times. Apple Maps took back to Ohio with no problems.
Isn't the iOS integration because you are not given a choice about it? Also, what part of the integration is "deep"?
That's my theory as well. I use iCloud for contacts, since they let you have more fields than Google's contacts, but occasionally I upload them to Google just for the Maps app.
Be careful, seems like questioning one's motives around here is slanderous. You might be liable for not buying into the "mac culture".... whatever the hell that is
This was the one thing I found indispensable on my android phone. In the very week I made the decision to move to an iPhone even with this limitation, Google updates the program. Thank you Google!
Won't let Google access the Address Book API they let everyone else access?
Isn't it more likely that Google is trying to push everyone to use Google's contacts?
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Apple Maps was released a year and a month ago, and Google just released iPad support for their map now. It took a year to update their app.
Google still can't find me!
Downloaded the new app. GPS placed me within a 100 yards of my home (well, actually in the middle of the lake), but it still doesn't know the name of my street. Perhaps it is because the street has only been here 15 years. In addition, the map doesn't match the satellite view.
Amazingly, Bing, Garmin and Tom Tom do not have any problem locating me. Apple doesn't have a problem finding me either.
Sent the info to google, but I suspect they are more interested in mapping the ocean floor and North Korea than rural America.
Downloaded the new app. GPS placed me within a 100 yards of my home (well, actually in the middle of the lake), but it still doesn't know the name of my street. Perhaps it is because the street has only been here 15 years. In addition, the map doesn't match the satellite view.
Amazingly, Bing, Garmin and Tom Tom do not have any problem locating me. Apple doesn't have a problem finding me either.
Sent the info to google, but I suspect they are more interested in mapping the ocean floor and North Korea than rural America.
Access to the address book database from third party apps are limited in what they can do to the address book.
Third party apps cannot write custom identifiers or create custom fields in the address book.
In order for the Google Maps to create a "pin" location for user in the contacts app, it needs to have the ability to create new field with the pin data.
And I agree... I'm sure Google would love to have everyone use Google contacts.
I suspect the issue here is more of Apple not wanting Google, or anyone else for that matter, getting in to the Core services frameworks in iOS.
What? No on-the-fly re-routing? That gives it very limited usefulness for driving directions.
It's kinda creepy to see how much this comment was upvoted. Some people still think everything Apple does is superior which in this case its clearly not.
Similar to how people first criticized lightning-cables and now even defend it's prices...kinda like listening to creationists.
15,793 people have viewed this thread.
47 upvoted the first post which said "I prefer Apple Maps".
By what definition of creepy does 0.3% of MacRumors thread viewers preferring Apple Maps qualify?
What I find creepy is that there are people out there who are so incapable of thinking that even a small minority gathered at a place with a well stated selection bias might see the world differently than they do, and lack the analytical power to put their personal perspective in context... kinda like listening to creationists at a molecular biology conference.
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