I don't believe that they are still capturing maps.google.com - when I click on map links I get taken to Google maps in Safari
however, I agree that the new map is a huge step back - I was in San Antonio a few weeks ago while running the beta, and the maps app kept insisting the nearest Sea World was in Orlando On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 7:01 AM, Alex White <[email protected]> wrote: > The apple maps are sub-standard all my windows users (over 1000 of them) > that use the iPhones and iPads that have upgraded to IOS6 have taken their > devices into the apple stores and got replacement units as the mapping > component is completely useless and there seems to be no way to take the > devices back to IOS6. > > My users use the street view function a huge amount and need complete > mapping and street view of the whole of london, the Apple mapping has major > gaps in it. > > Whilst there is apps that do this job, it is completely out of order that > apple have hijacked maps.google.com and map it to somewhere else, if they > are not going to use maps.google.com for their component then they should > release the URL so that it can be used in safari. > > This upgrade has gone down very badly in my user base, many of the guys > that were going to upgrade their phones are not going to now. > > ATB > > Alex > > > > On 24 Sep 2012, at 10:20, Rolf Bjarne Kvinge <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi, > > On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 11:25 PM, Chris_M <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> I am very close to having my first app ready to submit to Apple -- except >> that I haven't looked at any iOS related stuff yet. Now I'm kind of >> scared. >> >> I display a Google Maps view in the app itself and there's also >> functionality to launch the external Maps app. Will either of these work >> in >> iOS 6? >> > > The API hasn't changed at all, you do it the exact same way you used to > with the Google maps and in iOS6 it'll use the Apple maps. > > In other words: you don't have to do anything at all to make the Apple > maps work if you already have the Google maps working. > > Rolf > > >> >> Reading all of the problems with Apple's new Maps app, I'm not really >> super >> excited about the prospect of switching to it instead. >> >> If I do have to switch to Apple Maps for iOS 6 support, I assume I'll have >> to use code to detect the OS version and will be able to stick with what I >> got for iOS 5 and earlier, and then implement the code to use Apple Maps >> separately if the user is using iOS 6? >> >> (I looked and didn't see this addressed elsewhere, so if it has come up >> already I apologize.) >> >> >> --Chris >> >> >> >> -- >> View this message in context: >> http://monotouch.2284126.n4.nabble.com/Maptastrophe-tp4657170.html >> Sent from the MonoTouch mailing list archive at Nabble.com. >> _______________________________________________ >> MonoTouch mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monotouch >> > > _______________________________________________ > MonoTouch mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monotouch > > > > _______________________________________________ > MonoTouch mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/monotouch > >
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