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And I ask Google Maps to direct me home and it points me at Home Depot. Frankly both Apple Maps and Google Maps could stand some UI improvements. Google Maps w
by millstone 10y ago
And I ask Google Maps to direct me home and it points me at Home Depot.
Frankly both Apple Maps and Google Maps could stand some UI improvements. Google Maps won't shut up, throws up some bizarre progress bar even on mute, has mystery meat navigation, and replaces the map with some giant material design-style empty space when it decides I've "arrived" (even if I haven't).
Apple Maps used to make it hard to pan around, but that's been fixed in iOS 10. Instead now it has terrible bugs in landscape mode, and has adopted the "you've arrived, now you don't need the map any more!" behavior.
If they just let the map be a map...But anyways I'm old enough to remember pulling over to pull out the giant paper map in San Francisco, so I can't get too upset. Either one has made my life so much better.
- mcintyre1994 10y ago> And I ask Google Maps to direct me home and it points me at Home Depot On iOS? You can tell Google your home/work addresses in settings, I ask for directions/transit home multiple times most weeks and it works. On Android they can figure them out, but on iOS they don't have enough permissions and you'll have to tell them - but when you do this works.
- SysArchitect 10y agoGoogle could request permission to access my contacts, which would give them access to my contact card, which has that information... Instead they want me to sign into Google and it wants that info to then be stored on Google's servers.