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Just one Data Point - My first query (from my office in Redwood City) was "Directions to Lake Merrit" - it found Lake Merrit, but, unlike IOS 6 Maps, couldn't
by ghshephard 14y ago
Just one Data Point -
My first query (from my office in Redwood City) was "Directions to Lake Merrit" - it found Lake Merrit, but, unlike IOS 6 Maps, couldn't get me transit direction there. IOS 6 Maps one-clicked me over to "HopStop" which gave me a choice of Walk/Caltrain/Bart.
Prior to the uproar around IOS 6 maps not having Transit direction, I wasn't even aware the IOS 5 Map had transit directions. In San Francisco, Tokyo, New York and other places this is a big deal. But, if you want to get Transit Direction from Redwood City, CA to Oakland, CA, IOS 6 Maps currently beats out Google Maps.
With that said, I'm blown away by how quickly the interface can guess what I'm looking for as I start typing into it. Apple has a long way to catch up in that department. I suspect for much map searching, Google Maps is going to become my "Goto" client on the iPhone.
[Edit - Love the speedy Swipe Left/Right interface. Also Offline Maps. Just Cached all of California, Switched to "Airplane Mode" - and all my mapping data is cached. Awesome.]
[Edit 2 - Wow - this map is fast. IOS 6 Maps wasn't particularly slow, but switching back and forth shows me Apple has a long way to go. Have to Love Competition]
[Edit 3 - Jumping into StreetView is silky smooth, and, they make use of the accelerometer so you can look around]
- xbryanx 14y agoI am a regular IOS5 Google Maps transit directions user in Minneapolis/St. Paul. Google Maps transit is far superior here to HopStop, which seems to think we have a subway. Looking forward to testing this new app, so I can upgrade to IOS6.
- magicalist 14y agoIs this a UI issue? Or does it not think it has any transit directions to offer? The web interface and android have transit available from Redwood City to Lake Merritt: http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=Redwood+City,+CA&daddr=Lake+Merritt&dirflg=r&ttype=now&noexp=0&noal=0&sort=def&mra=ltm&t=m&z=11&start=0 http://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=Redwood+City,+CA&daddr...
- ghshephard 14y agoI just get "No Route Found" when trying to get Transit route instructions from 555 Broadway, Redwood City, CA on my iPhone using the Google Map client. HopStop works fine. Even lets me know when the next train is leaving. I think this is just "an exception that proves the rule" - It's pretty well accepted that Google Transit Direction are pretty good - just not well defined on their iOS App for my use case (yet)
- timothya 14y agoIs there a way to manually cache areas for offline use (i.e., how could I cache all of California like you said you did)? When I go in airplane mode I can see that it's cached the areas I had been browsing online, but I can find any explicit UI to add areas to the cache.
- Blara 14y agoThere is on the android version, there's an option "Make available offline" you just draw out a square of what part of the world you want offline. Not sure if it's available on the iOS version though.
- ghshephard 14y agoI just scrolled through the state at various zoom levels (quickly), switched to airplane mode, and the confirmed that 100% of the areas were still available.