Hi David, Thanks for posting your findings and instructions. Because of your post, I wound up using Maps yesterday to navigate a route. We were in Florida, not our home territory. GPS Drive is my preferred app for route navigation. For some reason, I could not get it to find the Tampa International Airport; I used Siri as I generally do to input the address. It found St. Petersburg Clear Water, I thought that might be different, but we were not sure. So when we got to what we felt was an important turnoff. we abandoned that route. I then dictated my string into Siri. It found the airport in question, and I was given the choice to call or get directions. I chose the latter and Maps was launched. I found the start navigation button,lower right corner of the screen and the route navigation began. Each turn was spoken automatically in advance as I would hope. I could also explore the screen to see how we were doing in terms of distance to our next turn. That also worked well. Once we reached the airport, as we had a rental car, we had to find a gas station to fill up before returning the vehicle. Again, I used Apple Maps to finds the nearest station after asking Siri where that would be. It took us to a station about 5 minutes from the airport. Finally, I used Maps to return us to the airport, and it worked great. This is my first experience with Apple Maps. I'd give it a thumbs-up, an excellent app for the cost, which is free. HTH.
Les On Dec 8, 2013, at 8:52 PM, David Chittenden <[email protected]> wrote: > The more I play with Apple Maps, the more I like it. I used Apple Maps > earlier to locate new potential places to live. After I got the address from > the website, I opened Apple Maps. I placed the address (number and street > name only) in the search edit field. I then right flick a couple times, or > slide my finger down the display a little, and I find a list of cities. Apple > Maps shows me the name of each city and country where the address and street > is valid. I double-tap on the city I want. > > Now, a pop-up window opens. At the top of the display is Directions Button. > One flick right shows the full address in the search field. After that is > one's current location. Double-tap on directions and one gets the choices of > driving Button, Walking Button, and Public Transit button. Double-tap on any > of these buttons to select it. Then, double-tap on Route Button to take Apple > Maps to the next screen. > > On this screen, one can start the route, or one can go to the bottom of the > display and find the Directions Button. Double-tap Directions to have the > route displayed. The displayed route is excellent, listing direction to > travel, distance to next point, and direction to turn (left or right). At the > end, it shows whether the place is on the left or right. > > Also in the Start screen is a More Info Button and an Options button. In > Options, one can add multiple stops to the route, amongst other options. > > Note: Currently Apple Maps does not support public transit information, so it > brings up GPS apps on the iPhone that support Public Transit. When I opened > Google Maps, my starting and destination information was loaded for me. > > For a free option, this is very good. Also, the map screen can be tactually > explored by moving one's finger slowly. Apple Maps announces the street one > is touching, and can go into tracking mode with sound cues for following > streets on the display. > > Note, I have not yet used Apple Maps for route navigation. Given that I like > it for what's around me when I am walking, I suspect it will do quite well > with routes. I will test it soon. > > > > David Chittenden, MSc, MRCAA > Email: [email protected] > Mobile: +64 21 2288 288 > Sent from my iPhone > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google > Group. > > Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. > > Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. > > Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing > [email protected]. > > Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing > [email protected]. > > More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting > http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "VIPhone" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the "VIPhone" Google Group. Post a new message to VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. Search and view the VIPhone archives by visiting http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. Reach the VIPhone owner and moderators by emailing [email protected]. Unsubscribe and leave VIPhone by emailing [email protected]. More VIPhone group options can be found by visiting http://groups.google.com/group/viphone?hl=en. --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "VIPhone" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
