Google Maps returns to iOS.

Is this an April fool?

I can't see it :cuckoo:

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You're welcome.

Now all I need is someone to show me how to activate StreetView.....
 
Thanks for that link.
 
I found it in the app store - thanks for telling us it was there :) I've finally upgraded to ios6 now that google maps is back online...
 
Ricardodaforce said:
You're welcome.

Now all I need is someone to show me how to activate StreetView.....
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Street view is easy, press at the location you want and the address pops up at the bottom of the screen, touch the address and the pop up slides up the screen with a miniature street view pic, touch the small pic and it opens full screen.

Seems like a well thought out app, works well.

Just noticed in street view, touch the two arrows and you have an auto panorama mode, the street view moves as you move the phone left, right or up,down.
 
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Street view is easy, press at the location you want and the address pops up at the bottom of the screen, touch the address and the pop up slides up the screen with a miniature street view pic, touch the small pic and it opens full screen.

Seems like a well thought out app, works well.

Just noticed in street view, touch the two arrows and you have an auto panorama mode, the street view moves as you move the phone left, right or up,down.
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Brilliant, ta for that!
 
Tried it out this afternoon, I have a built in satnav in my car (Kenwood unit using Garmin ), so I was able to run them both together & compare navigation.

Went into Leeds (from Otley) 12 miles or so, and Google pretty much mirrored the route Garmin indicated (and would have been the route I would have taken), with the ETA the same as Garmin, which I find pretty accurate. The route used 4mb of data (for around 30 mins of use/ standard view), the only flaw I found was that if I was playing music on my iPhone (routed through the Kenwood unit), the spoken instructions would 'pause' the music instead of muting, which was odd, consequently I would have to press play again on the Kenwood screen.

On the way back from Leeds , I used the Iphone's native maps to navigate, and although I think it's looks more elegant than Google, it's still a flawed app, it continuously wanted to take me routes that I didn't think made sense, and it's ETA for the journey was 34 minutes after I'd arrived home :thinking:, but at least it muted the music rather than pausing it, and used slightly more data than google (6mb)

Nether app I would consider as my main navigation aid, as both lack the functionality of a dedicated sat nav, but as free apps, they are still pretty good.
 
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The App Store search is poor. It often doesn't find apps that exist. I'll give the google maps a go as my tomtom can be very slow and misleading :thumbs:
 
It's good to have the app back

Using google maps via safari is not as good as a native app, (and required running a gps app (eg gps data) in the background to keep the blue location dot updated).
 
It isn't back on the iPad yet :(
 
If your searching the store via an ipad make sure you have it set to look for iPhone only apps too, as mine defaults to ipad apps only.


To be honest I find apples maps to be fine for me anyway.
 
You can if you want it small
 
I know it does, but it isn't an iPad app, everything is too big. I installed it earlier and removed it earlier.
 
Quite an interesting article about the iOS map saga

December 13th, 2012 at 8:16 pm by Dr. Drang

OK, let me get this straight.

1 Apple and Google have a falling out over the built-in iOS Maps app. Among the problems: Google wanted more access to user information and Apple wanted the app to provide vector graphics and turn-by-turn directions the way Google’s maps on Android do.

2 Apple cuts Google out and rewrites the Maps app with vector graphics and turn-by-turn. The data set behind the new app, however, isn’t as good as Google’s and the new Maps doesn’t have Street View or public transit directions.

3 Three months later, Google puts out its own maps app with turn-by-turn, vector graphics, Street View, and public transit directions. It is widely hailed as a great addition to the dominant and every-growing portfolio of iOS apps.

4 Apple is considered to have come out of this with a black eye.

I don’t see how Item 4 follows from Items 1-3. iOS now has a free maps app that’s every bit as good as what’s on Android. Google Maps is almost certainly collecting more user information than Maps was before, but it isn’t nearly as much information as it would be if Google Maps were a system app. Also, because it isn’t a system app, whatever data Google Maps collects, it isn’t getting it by way of Apple.

Sounds to me like playing hardball got Apple most of what it wanted. Reminds me of Flash.
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wegotitugetit said:
It was available when they 1st introduced the new ios os update

i used it instead of the apple ios maps instead
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Not according to the tech press.
 
PDub said:
Am i correct in saying for the Navigation you need constant data connection as no maps are stored on the phone?

Thats a big minus point for me if thats true.
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On iPhone yes, as I mentioned in my post, I used 4mb of data for a 30 minute journey, that was using sat nav with a standard view.(google maps)

I understand that on android phones you can store the google maps on the phone (but I may be wrong)
 
Yeah on Android phones you can store the maps on your phone to chit on data costs. I'm surprised they haven't done this for ios.
 
Im sure you dont have to download any data on Android navigation, pre-caching or otherwise. That is the navigation not google maps. Theyre seperate apps linked in Android.
 
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Im sure you dont have to download any data on Android navigation, pre-caching or otherwise. That is the navigation not google maps. Theyre seperate apps linked in Android.
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Data is downloaded.

Go off route with not signal and watch the map quality stop hugely. Find somewhere with no signal and try and start a route. No chance.

Data is required
 
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