Huh? Street view gives you information about your destination. Things like verifying it is actually at that address. Or figuring out where you can park are pretty important to me. I guess if you don't live near a large city, it may not be important but for me it is. In fact, since Apple is dropping Google's POIs, it will probably be missed even more when the accuracy of locations goes way down.
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Turn By Turn Navigation vs Street View: Which is More Important in a Map Application?
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Huh? Street view gives you information about your destination. Things like verifying it is actually at that address. Or figuring out where you can park are pretty important to me. I guess if you don't live near a large city, it may not be important but for me it is. In fact, since Apple is dropping Google's POIs, it will probably be missed even more when the accuracy of locations goes way down.
I've never needed to use streetview in any big city I've been to. The mapping is enough. Once you get near a location, you just use your eyes to figure out the rest.
I could say the same thing about flyover (vs satellite or map view). Didn't stop Apple from introducing it.
I think is depends on the person/situation on which is more important. For me it's Turn by Turn. I've only ever used Street View twice (aside from playing around with it) but I've used Turn by Turn countless times.
However, when I did use Street View, once was because I was walking to a location and I wanted a better look and the other was to find public parking near a place I was driving to. So even though I've only used it twice, I can see how it can be much more useful to someone who walks more than they drive or someone who drives in a bigger city more often.
However, when I did use Street View, once was because I was walking to a location and I wanted a better look and the other was to find public parking near a place I was driving to. So even though I've only used it twice, I can see how it can be much more useful to someone who walks more than they drive or someone who drives in a bigger city more often.
I've never really used street view on my phone and I'm not sure if I'll be using turn by turn nav since I already have a garmin device in my car. I'll probably use it, I just need to get a mount for my phone. One of the things that I like on my garmin unit is that it displays the speed limit, where as the turn by turn navigation, albeit clean, doesn't have a lot of information displayed.
For me it is turn by turn. I've hardly ever used street view as a practical application, just for the "oooh wow, I can do the 360 thing" aspect. I can see some wanting the possibility of seeing the actual store or something as a visual recognition thing, but I may have used that twice.
But turn by turn, that's something I'd use all the time, and would mark a safer and more convenient way to utilize the maps interface. Something I'd use every single time I set up a destination.
But turn by turn, that's something I'd use all the time, and would mark a safer and more convenient way to utilize the maps interface. Something I'd use every single time I set up a destination.
I've used Street View for:
- to see if there are parking meters by the place I need to park at
- look at the quality of a neighborhood or area
- get a better view of a real estate listing (did this when buying a house and help friends/family who were buying)
- signs! I remember one time I read a sign which said cars are towed if they are parked during a certain time of the day/week. It was that time I was going to be there so I knew ahead of time to park somewhere else.
- when a place has no or poor online listings, Street View can be used to read their hours on the door or see other information, even get phone numbers!
- handicap parking
I mean, if you don't need Street View, then you don't need it, but there are many great uses for it for a lot of us.
- to see if there are parking meters by the place I need to park at
- look at the quality of a neighborhood or area
- get a better view of a real estate listing (did this when buying a house and help friends/family who were buying)
- signs! I remember one time I read a sign which said cars are towed if they are parked during a certain time of the day/week. It was that time I was going to be there so I knew ahead of time to park somewhere else.
- when a place has no or poor online listings, Street View can be used to read their hours on the door or see other information, even get phone numbers!
- handicap parking
I mean, if you don't need Street View, then you don't need it, but there are many great uses for it for a lot of us.
Fair enough, but Apple doesn't think it's important anymore so you have to abide what Apple says and use their mapping solution now. After all, Apple is wiser than all of us, as the forum reminds us day by day. Apple knows what we should have and what we shouldn't have.
Doesn't it feel good to be an iOS user?
Your eyes? Yeah, so when you get there and the destination is not there, you start going around blocks and blocks because you are on one way streets. Maybe you like losing an hour of your day driving in circles by I don't.
I know, Apple just knows what's best for me. Like a few years ago I wanted multitasking on my phone, but they said I didn't need it, and they were right. Then they said, you need multitasking on your phone, which I thought I didn't, but once again, they were right, I did. Now they say I need flyover, which I don't really need... but I guess I do? Yes, I do!
Apple makes me feel independent. I like me!
Seems like a strange poll when not many people are questioning that turn by turn is a useful addition. The actual debate appears to be street view with widespread coverage versus flyover of a few big cities. Why wasn't that the poll question?
this.
not to mention all of the other things where apple appears to be behind google in the maps department.
will they close the gap over the next year or two? probably. am i happy about the iphone having an inferior product in the mean time? no.
Did you not read the first post in the thread or the explanation afterwards? This is for the people who were saying the loss of Street View makes the new Maps application a "downgrade". Something which doesn't make sense unless Street View is more important than Turn By Turn Directions since turn by turn was added in iOS6.
To sum it up, iOS5 has Street View but iOS6 has turn by turn. Thus the poll comparing which is more important to determine whether the new Maps are a "downgrade" because of the loss of Street View according to some.
And it looks like the new Maps are going to be well received in a landslide if this poll is any indication. As most people are saying, Street View is rarely used and many didn't even know it existed while Turn By Turn Directions with Siri integration seems like it is going to be very popular.
Looking forward to the continuing improvements myself. I really like how they implemented the turn by turn feature and integrated it with Siri. This feature alone makes me want to upgrade my other iDevices to the Beta.
All this talk about the new improved iOS6 Maps is cool as I enjoy products evolving. However, in the end, I spend $10/yr on MotionX Drive and can't see it getting much better than that app.
Sure you can pick here and there about any navigation app, but really, truth be told, Apple is going to need to introduce a pretty compelling set of features to warrant me switching. Not just one or two nice features either. A couple cool things without the features and all that I like about my current app won't switch me either.
Sure you can pick here and there about any navigation app, but really, truth be told, Apple is going to need to introduce a pretty compelling set of features to warrant me switching. Not just one or two nice features either. A couple cool things without the features and all that I like about my current app won't switch me either.
Turn by Turn > Street View > Flyover
Flyover is limited to select cities and the rendering is still not the greatest but I believe once Flyover gets more updates people will prefer it over street view. It faster and not limited to streets.
Flyover is limited to select cities and the rendering is still not the greatest but I believe once Flyover gets more updates people will prefer it over street view. It faster and not limited to streets.
I would rather have turn-by-turn AND street view. Obviously street view has been a huge undertaking for Google so I'm not surprised that Apple doesn't have something like that yet. As far as Flyover goes, I don't really see the value in it when compared to the value of street view. As long as I will be able to go to Google's website and access street view for the few times I might want to then I will be content. And if not it won't be that big of a deal to me.
I'm still running iOS 5 so when I try to look at a map via a Google search result it automatically opens the Maps app. Does anyone running iOS 6 know what happens when you search a location in Google and click on the result?
I'm still running iOS 5 so when I try to look at a map via a Google search result it automatically opens the Maps app. Does anyone running iOS 6 know what happens when you search a location in Google and click on the result?
While I'd certainly love to have both, Turn by Turn navigation is of much more importance to have.
Biggest problem with street view on an iPhone is that most people don't even seem to know it's there, us tech-focused people do, but of the other 5 iPhone users in my house only 1 even knew that the phone had it, yet alone use it regularly.
Biggest problem with street view on an iPhone is that most people don't even seem to know it's there, us tech-focused people do, but of the other 5 iPhone users in my house only 1 even knew that the phone had it, yet alone use it regularly.
I like how you totally skipped over how the POI system is an absolute joke now. Not to mention that Google Maps on Android has had traffic rerouting for over a year and also receives crowd-sourced GPS data.
Your judging an unreleased Software update? Google traffic data is horrible no argument there. Atleast Apple is using yelp which kicks the crap out of google places data. If don't like it don't use it.
I can't tell if you're actually serious.
Google Maps uses (and has used) crowd-sourcing for traffic data, same that Apple is going to implement.
The Yelp data is an absolute JOKE compared to the listings in Google Maps. As I said earlier, couldn't find 40% of the places I was looking for doing a quick comparison between iOS 6 and iOS 5.
I have an excellent navigation system built into my car, with a nice large display & excellent audio guidance it's the system I rely on. Being able to pre-plan trips & store them, as well as having the computer calculate the fuel stops required if the trip is cross country, it saves me from Apples tiny 3.5" screen.
As far as the specifics of street view vs turn by turn, few people take the time to learn all the features their iPhone offers. Therefore they miss out on the value of street view. Both of these two features in the poll are quite useful depending on each individual user. I see no reason to compare them.
As far as the specifics of street view vs turn by turn, few people take the time to learn all the features their iPhone offers. Therefore they miss out on the value of street view. Both of these two features in the poll are quite useful depending on each individual user. I see no reason to compare them.