iOS 6 preview now on Apple website

[TheHeretic]

poing said:

Seems pretty accurate to me: http://goo.gl/maps/HsuHt

Fail, Miniman.

[miniman]

Interestingly Google figures out that Niagra Falls = Niagara Falls.

[Hunky Dory]

miniman said:

Good grief.

"it's Niagara, you 'tard"

[TheHeretic]

miniman said:

Interestingly Google figures out that Niagra Falls = Niagara Falls.

Probably down to popularity.

Interestingly, google doesn't even have it on their maps when you search.

Edited by TheHeretic on Sunday 7th October 22:43

[poing]

miniman said:

Interestingly Google figures out that Niagra Falls = Niagara Falls.

So Google thinks it knows best, "corrects" your spelling and sends you to the wrong continent? Genius.

[ZesPak]

poing said:

miniman said:

Interestingly Google figures out that Niagra Falls = Niagara Falls.

So Google thinks it knows best, "corrects" your spelling and sends you to the wrong continent? Genius.

You got it wrong, Google suggests the Niagara falls amongst the Niagra falls when you type "niagra falls".

It doesn't send you to the wrong continent, it asks you what you ment. In fact, on my Maps App on the android, if I type in "Niagra Falls", it's only the 5th suggestion:


I think it's brilliant, we have a lot of streetnames that are spelled in some older Dutch, meaning some letters are changed. Like "Keiserlei" is spelled "Keyserlei", and hundreds of other examples are spelled in different ways on signs, maps,... Google easily corrects this a lot better than any other NAV I've used.

[luke111s]

More Maps usage at the weekend

- Found the hotel we had booked by name and took us there without issue.
- Driving through a city with the 3D buildings is really nice, I really love the interface.
- I don't have a car charger yet so turned the screen off. When a turn is upcoming, the screen switches back on to display the sat nav (with lockscreen in place). Excellent feature and the first time I've seen this on any device.

- Finding Manchester Arena was more of a pain than it needed to be. It isn't in the search results on Apple Maps so I used Google Maps from the web, but that doesn't have the easy 'heading marker' so swapped back to Apple Maps to orient myself!

[BalhamBadger]

luke111s said:

More Maps usage at the weekend

- Found the hotel we had booked by name and took us there without issue.
- Driving through a city with the 3D buildings is really nice, I really love the interface.
- I don't have a car charger yet so turned the screen off. When a turn is upcoming, the screen switches back on to display the sat nav (with lockscreen in place). Excellent feature and the first time I've seen this on any device.

- Finding Manchester Arena was more of a pain than it needed to be. It isn't in the search results on Apple Maps so I used Google Maps from the web, but that doesn't have the easy 'heading marker' so swapped back to Apple Maps to orient myself!

My OH used it successfully on a 200 mile car journey last week, no issues. She was really pleased.

I was going on at her to download co-pilot as it has the onboard database - does iOS maps require an internet connection or does it download all steps/turns at the beginning of the journey?

[luke111s]

It doesn't have offline maps as far as I am aware and I don't know whether it caches the whole route to begin with either.

I had no problems with it on a 3 hour trip but I had signal the whole way.

[poing]

ZesPak said:

You got it wrong, Google suggests the Niagara falls amongst the Niagra falls when you type "niagra falls".

It doesn't send you to the wrong continent, it asks you what you ment. In fact, on my Maps App on the android, if I type in "Niagra Falls", it's only the 5th suggestion:


I think it's brilliant, we have a lot of streetnames that are spelled in some older Dutch, meaning some letters are changed. Like "Keiserlei" is spelled "Keyserlei", and hundreds of other examples are spelled in different ways on signs, maps,... Google easily corrects this a lot better than any other NAV I've used.

Depends how you search but it's more than a suggestion in my eyes since it defaults to it.




Not that any other search engine is likely to be better since they are pretty much all American based. And as for Apple maps, I think the world has accepted they are poo in the extreme. Not that I ever used the old ones though and have yet to actually use the new ones either.

[TheHeretic]

They work on popularity. Most people putting that combination of letters in do not normally want the African one. Apple maps does it as well, but like google, it does give it as a suggestion.

[durbster]

Just had a client come to see us. She was late because her new iPhone tried to take her to the south coast.

We're in the midlands.

[TheHeretic]

Where was it supposed to be taking her?

[AB]

TheHeretic said:

Where was it supposed to be taking her?

I reckon the Midlands.

[durbster]

AB said:

I reckon the Midlands.

You're sharp

[TheHeretic]

AB said:

I reckon the Midlands.

Where in the Midlands. Was gonna see where it was on the map, and if it was going to the wrong place. Did they report the issue in the app?

[sneijder]

y2blade said:

Nope, and my Battery is definitely lasting longer.

My battery lasts longer too, after I turned off Bluetooth that I've never used.

[moles]

Find my Friends "Notify Me" feature only works on ios6 and it only works on iphone 4,4s and 5 if you try and geofence someone on a 3gs it wont work but other than that it works fine for me.

[thehawk]

So I've seen a lot of criticism about Apple, surely TomTom must take much of the blame too? In my experience, and many others, their maps are rubbish, especially in the US.

[andy-xr]

Anyone see the iOS6 Aussie 3 o clock glitch? Mildly amusing