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Their vector implementation of Maps will making it a lot more usable, if you can cache a whole route's worth of map data beforehand: -no worrying about getting
by akgerber 16y ago
Their vector implementation of Maps will making it a lot more usable, if you can cache a whole route's worth of map data beforehand:
-no worrying about getting lost right outside data coverage
-people without data plans can precache data while still on Wifi (smartphones without a data plan aren't that common among normals as far as I know, though it'd be bad news for GPS companies if it comes out for the iPod Touch any time soon)
- Hoff 16y agoWith iOS, screen shots can be used to hack this. (To take a screen shot, position the display, and momentarily and simultaneously click both buttons. The screen shots are loaded into the Photo library.)
- protomyth 16y agoI find that works pretty well when you need to go on a rural route with poor 3G. I did that on my last cross SD run and basically had a pretty cheap road map. The fun of it is that you can do it with the wi-fi version also.
- markkanof 16y agoI don't know how bad it would really be for GPS manufacturers. Right now you can get a bunch of different applications for iOS that provide mapping and store all the data directly on the phone. Granted, they do cost money, and Google maps is free, but I don't know that having vector Google maps with caching would really be a huge blow to GPS manufacturers any more than the iOS apps already are.