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Apple Launches New 'Maps' App in iOS 6, Includes Turn-by-Turn Navigation, Real-Time Traffic, 3D Maps
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Get directions to a place, from there you can choose walking or bus as well as driving (though it appears only driving works reliably)
Or click the right arrow next to the search bar.
I have voice over though. Can the app not read the turn by turn list, and when you near the next turn, just voice over the directions? Why would Siri be needed to read out text?
Ahhh I always forget. So I am always out of luck. Signal in SF is always horrible. So using GPS there sucks. Plus the maps are too big for download on the go.
Thanks for taking the time...x
Very few people in day to day life turn bluetooth or wifi on and off. I can't think of the last time I turned wifi off.
I know a lot of people that do. I turn wi-fi on and off every day. It's just one press on my Android phone and I save battery.
Just like apple blocks all the other map apps? Oh wait ...
And all the other Google apps.
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What is the point of doing this?
1. You turn off Wi-fi when you don't have access to it (e.g. when I'm out and about)
2. You save battery
3. ???
4. Profit!
What gps mapping apps can you use without a wireless connection? All the GPS apps I know require a signal.
GPS doesn't work without a signal right?
gaiagps app lets you download map areas from open map sources. A bit of a learning curve to use this app. It works great but not a turn-by-turn app. I saved cities before I went to China to see where the taxi drivers took us. You can save topo maps for hiking also.
Deleting Native iOS Apps with 6.0?
Now would be a GREAT time to introduce the "feature" that would let you delete this crap that Apple insists on including with the iOS. Yes, I'm a naysayer considering I haven't even seen this yet, but Google Maps works great, and I already have an app for turn by turn voice navigation - and that is something that is VERY hard to do. I just don't see Apple getting this one right.
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Finicky I know, but turn by turn directions is simply the ability to tell one which way they should go as they progress through the route they are on. It has nothing to do with voice navigation. Voice navigation is when the GPS actually SAYS which way to go, so you don't have to look at the screen.
Now would be a GREAT time to introduce the "feature" that would let you delete this crap that Apple insists on including with the iOS. Yes, I'm a naysayer considering I haven't even seen this yet, but Google Maps works great, and I already have an app for turn by turn voice navigation - and that is something that is VERY hard to do. I just don't see Apple getting this one right.
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Finicky I know, but turn by turn directions is simply the ability to tell one which way they should go as they progress through the route they are on. It has nothing to do with voice navigation. Voice navigation is when the GPS actually SAYS which way to go, so you don't have to look at the screen.
Forgive me for stating the obvious, but would it not benefit everyone, Every user of every different device, all school kids, and even Apple and Google themselves to team up to "photo the globe"
What on earth (earth! lol) is the point of different companies flying planes, or having cars, or people walking photographing the entire planet for the whole human race to benefit from?
That's just moronic to compete in the gathering of this type of Data.
Bot companies would work together and either half the time, or double the quantity of this data gathering, and they would both benefit from faster data gathering and not duplicating what someone else has just done, saving money at the same time.
Sorry, but competing in taking photo's of the same city is just idiotic for just large companies.
Ok, put your own UI over the top, and use the data in the way you wish, but don't require the same data to be gathered.
Just think how much faster and more detailed it would all become with multiple companies working together to map the globe in high detail for us.
What on earth (earth! lol) is the point of different companies flying planes, or having cars, or people walking photographing the entire planet for the whole human race to benefit from?
That's just moronic to compete in the gathering of this type of Data.
Bot companies would work together and either half the time, or double the quantity of this data gathering, and they would both benefit from faster data gathering and not duplicating what someone else has just done, saving money at the same time.
Sorry, but competing in taking photo's of the same city is just idiotic for just large companies.
Ok, put your own UI over the top, and use the data in the way you wish, but don't require the same data to be gathered.
Just think how much faster and more detailed it would all become with multiple companies working together to map the globe in high detail for us.
From what I have heard it is supposed to but it doesn't work at the moment. It seems to want to link you to a page of routing apps.
I agree. But there is no way they can update fast enough to compete with Google Maps. It took Google years to compile all their map info and send Street View cars around the globe.
Bad move Apple.
Seriously?? I always turn Wifi and Bluetooth off when I don't need them. Saves battery life, frees up memory and processor cycles. It just makes sense. Do you leave all your lights and appliances on when your're not at home?
I actually used to work for TomTom, and I can tell you that this doesn't mean what everyone thinks it means.
TomTom bought TeleAtlas a few years ago, who were one of the best map data providers around (google maps v1 was buit on their data). TomToms entire market cap is now less than what they paid for TeleAtlas; it could well be that that's the only really valuable part of the company left.
Their technology is ancient, nobody can understand how it works, and if you look at their apps it shows. They also make some of the most awkward user interfaces around.
They've managed to score a branding coup here, but it won't save their business. Satnav revenue is tanking, and standalone app revenue is about to do the same. Data licensing revenue won't make up for it, especially with the competition leading to companies wanting to own the data.
I really wished more people could have thought like you.
Shame it seems that spple's latest move seems more intended to counter google. So you have a lot of redundancy in that aspect, with both companies wasting resources pretty much doing the same thing.