Rejoice! Google Maps for iPhone is Here

[Bloob]

Or you know, open a browser and m.here.com ...

 

[pat]

[citation][nom]Be0wulf22[/nom]What did they do to it?? It's nothing like the previous app we had. It works about as well as opening up googlemaps.com in safari. Disappointed.[/citation]

You're opening it wrong.

 

[robochump]

Surprising TH didnt link the articles in which Australia also says beware using Google Maps...lol. Having a 2nd option is great either way!

 

[robochump]

[citation][nom]rjkucia[/nom]And then Apple removes it for replicating functionality.[/citation]
Funny. Originally Google was holding back Map features such as turn by turn and others for iOS, so Apple decided to go in-house. Now that Apple Maps team blew it, Google is capitalizing on the misstep to offer Maps with everything as a in-your-face move to Apple. Good advertising too which may = Android sales...lol.

 

[ivanto]

Thank you for Google maps app. Tap on street and see the street address is very useful feature. thank you Google.
Now, I can upgrade iPad to iOS6 and have street view
-IvanTO

 

[unoriginal1]

[citation][nom]stratplaya[/nom]Apple maps works. I've never had an issue. Things got out of hand when a few fan bois with jobs in journalism took a wrong turn.[/citation]

Tell that to the Aussies who got lost looking for a city (mildura). A city... Not like it was trying to pin point the local pizza joint, or coffee shop. No... It missed an ENTIRE city by 45 miles. Putting them in the middle of a desert that reaches temps of 114 degrees!

 

[jaquith]

[citation][nom]rjkucia[/nom]And then Apple removes it for replicating functionality.[/citation]
Huh?! If you search 'Google Maps' then it's listed, oddly, as the 5th result but it's there.

BTW - the new Google Maps is a lot better than the older Google Maps for iPhone. New new Google Map includes Navigation similar to the Androids version with Voice and Street View.

 

[ven1ger]

[citation][nom]rjkucia[/nom]And then Apple removes it for replicating functionality.[/citation]

Apple should have removed Apple Maps for replicating functionality, or maybe for being semi-functional in the first place. Apple's new motto, Competitor's App removed due to being better than our App so that you won't know what you're missing.

 

[ericburnby]

[citation][nom]robochump[/nom]Surprising TH didnt link the articles in which Australia also says beware using Google Maps...lol. Having a 2nd option is great either way![/citation]
Funny you got thumbed down. Australian police also issued an alert to users of Google Maps that were heading down the wrong road in a completely different part of the country.

Yet the Apple warning is headlines around the world and the Google warning is page 20.

 

[Guest]

To make matters worse, after discovering that Apple put Mildura in the wrong place, literally risking lives in the process, Apple proceeded to correct it and guess what, it's still in the wrong place.

People who travel to Australia don't seem to understand that Australia is a VERY big place with lots of desert. People have died in the outback when they took a wrong turn or their car got stuck in sweltering heat and there is no phone network available for miles. This is not a joke. Someone died in the outback 2 weeks ago after being stranded.

http/www.news.com.au/technology/apples-latest-ios-6-maps-system-is-luring-motorists-into-danger-police-warn/story-e6frfro0-1226533592620

 

[ericburnby]

I guess the truth hurts. Two posts telling the truth about Australian police also issuing a warning about Google Maps and they get voted down right away. Just because you ignore it, or try to suppress it doesn't mean it never happened.

Pathetic.

 

[SneakySnake]

[citation][nom]SneakySnake[/nom]Ironically google is admitting that the iOS version of the maps app is better then the android one, at least that's what techcrunch is saying.[/citation]

LOL droid fanboys downvoting facts. Google says it's better on iOS, no need to downvote

I own a gs3 anyways, just stating the facts

 

[Onus]

"Rejoice!"
Really? Because an application has been made available on iPhone? Some people's sense of proportion is hopelessly distorted...

 

[unoriginal1]

[citation][nom]ericburnby[/nom]I guess the truth hurts. Two posts telling the truth about Australian police also issuing a warning about Google Maps and they get voted down right away. Just because you ignore it, or try to suppress it doesn't mean it never happened.Pathetic.[/citation]
The google maps warning release was nothing more then a warning thou... It took people down a "not normally used road" But still was getting them to the destination. Unlike the apple maps which put people some 45 miles away from the nearest populated area. There is a HUGE difference in using an alternate route verses being put in the middle of no where and saying YOUR HERE lol.

Regardless. If people aren't smart enough to look at a map and verify. Then there isn't much hope.

 

[John15v17]

I guess the truth hurts. Two posts telling the truth about Australian police also issuing a warning about Google Maps and they get voted down right away. Just because you ignore it, or try to suppress it doesn't mean it never happened.
Pathetic.

@ericburnby & robochumb

You're being voted down because unlike yourself, educated people "actually read" the linked articles. If you had done so yourself, you would clearly see that the 2nd paragraph is as follows:

In Colac, which is west of Melbourne, near the country's southern coast, police told the ABC that the mapping system is directing traffic to a one-way track called Wild Dog Road, which isn't designed for regular use.

source: http://www.networkworld.com/news/2012/121312-australia-google-maps-265083.html?hpg1=bn

So....going down a not often used street but still arriving at said destination is a HUGE difference from the problems iOS maps is causing which, again if you'd taken the 30 seconds to read the first two paragraphs would see the obvious difference...

several motorists ended up in a semi-arid national park where temperatures can reach 115F (46C) and there is no water supply.

Police in the town of Mildura, which is the Australian state of Victoria, issued a news release on Monday saying they've responded to several drivers who became stranded in Murray Sunset National Park.

If you're going to post comments then, use facts, not your blind assumptions...

 

[EddieLomax]

What's the big fuss over Google maps being available?

The Nokia maps were available weeks ago, and being Navtec based they are exactly the same mapping systems you'd find in a car.

 

[antilycus]

more proof that Apple, the company, is a vendictive little brat despite any and all logic. Do it Apples ways or buzz off. It's a horrible mindset that they can't keep up forever.