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Does that mean by the time Google had decided to work on the iPhone-like Android interface, they had been planning to work on a turn-by-turn navigation system u
by rogerchucker 14y ago
Does that mean by the time Google had decided to work on the iPhone-like Android interface, they had been planning to work on a turn-by-turn navigation system using Google Maps for Android as well?
- no_more_death 14y agoAndroid has had turn-by-turn navigation at least since 2010. Having a GPS is irrelevant if you've got an Android.
- abruzzi 14y agoActually it depends on how you use GPSs. Its certainly possible to write a mapping/GPS app for a smart phone that is competitive with the more advanced features of handheld or dashmount GPSs, but I simply haven't seen one yet. None of the features I need are big ones, but rather a bunch features that add up to a much better user experience for a GPS geek. A couple of those hard to find features are: multi point routing (or some way to allow me to tell the GPS the route instead of the other way around), ability to build routes on PC/Mac and upload to the GPS, off-road routing, track to route conversion, etc..
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- taligent 14y agoCould well be the case. It's pretty clear that Google deliberately withheld the data needed for Apple to implement turn by turn/3D in order to give a competitive advantage to Android. Apple purchased Placebase in July 2009 which should give an indication of when they decided to build their own map platform.