Google Maps for iOS

Re:Google Maps for iOS by 2muchcoffeeman on Thursday December 13, 2012 @02:24AM (#4914738)

That's a nice feature I guess but I agree that the UI is quite bad. Tapping on a spot does nothing. To get a pin you have to tap and hold. Tapping on your new pin again does nothing but make the stupid toolbar bounce. Tapping on the toolbar brings it up partially. You have to swipe it to get the full view.

And getting options took me 30 seconds to figure out. There is that stupid tab with 3 little dots.

Public transport data is available for Sydney on the web but curiously missing in the app.

And asking me to sign in on start up. Really? Get out of my face unless I explicitly ask to sign in through the standard iOS settings app.

Of course correct data and great search trumps all complaints.

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Re:Google Maps for iOS by 2muchcoffeeman on Thursday December 13, 2012 @02:54PM (#4917712)

I retract my complaint about dropping pins. iOS maps requires tap and hold too. What threw me off was that Maps gives you the pin first then loads data. Google maps starts loading data then gives you the pin.

That's what threw me off.

Lack of POI data? The mapping data appears equivalent to the web app. Maps has more POI data it seems, or at least shows it without have to zoom in too near.

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Re:Google Maps for iOS by taligent on Thursday December 13, 2012 @04:18AM (#4915009)

Did you notice the lack of POIs in Sydney ? Really weird.

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