Michal Ždanský The iOS 6 maps debacle made Google Maps one of the most anticipated apps of the year. While the application itself is great, it suffers in particular from low-quality map materials, the supplier of which is mainly TomTom. Apple is working hard on fixes, but it will take years to get to where Google is now.
There have been many reports regarding the Google Maps App. Someone claimed that it is already waiting in the App Store, according to others, Google has not even started with it yet. Developer Ben Guild shed light on the whole situation. He on his own blog has published several partial screenshots (or rather, a photo of a screen with a running application) from the in-progress alpha version that the programmers in Mountain View are working hard on.
The application should have several improvements compared to the previous version from iOS 5. In particular, they will be vector, just like the Maps in iOS 6 (Google Maps in previous iOS were bitmap), by rotating with two fingers it will be possible to rotate the map at will, and the application should also be very fast . The screenshots themselves don't say much, only hinting at the boxy design of the search box that's also seen on Android. It is expected that Google Maps will also offer information about traffic and public transport, Street View and a 3D view, just like Android applications, but there is probably no point in counting on navigation.
No date is known yet, but Google will likely aim for a December release. Until then, iOS 6 users will have to make do with Gottwaldov, Prague Shooter's Island, or the non-existent Prague Castle.
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Regarding the errors in the maps - I see Shooter's island there ;-) however, it finds Strelecky ostrov, Prague and marks it correctly as a place to navigate. I always see Zlín as Zlín and when I search for Gottwaldov it finds Zlín again. – So this error is not there.
Yo-yo, Shooter's Island. As far as I know, Gottwaldov is still in the English version of the system.
Maybe I should wait a bit with the smearing of Gottwaldov, the commies are moving forward, not a step back....
I drive about 200/300 miles a day in the states and I've used apple maps a few times now and they're always fine and spot on, so the documents in CA are in perfect order, but of course Europe is something else and there will be big flaws anyway...
I also don't know what everyone else has to do with Gotwald? Dyt was only there in the beta, wasn't he? :-D I also have Zlín there
The English version of the system still has Gottwald as far as I know.
I confirm, it is in the English version of the system. I just can't stand Czech. I tried it, but buttons like "cancel" or "recharge" immediately took away my desire to try. Only the map is terrible in the English version - one can still guess what Leitomischl is, but if you turn west from Nové Mesto na Morave (nicely named with diacritics) you will find the city of Saar (it should be Zdar nad Sazavou) or you will not find Marianske Lazne at all and Horgassing is there instead of them, so you don't even want to look at those maps. At the same time, in google maps in the browser, everything looks so nice and in order, even in iOS 5 it was not like that (some names were also translated).
settings/maps/always in english -> off
and you have beautiful Czech names :)
Thanks for the tip, I didn't know that. How simple. :-)
Thanks for the tip, I didn't know that.
(The discussion is going crazy again, it's quite common lately.)
I don't know what you're up to, I've already driven several times according to the new apple maps and it's completely fine. And I accept the fact that it is not a full-fledged application.
now just add a ban on online vector maps to the app store conditions and google can start running again :-)
well, I started using google maps to orient myself when moving around Bratislava by dog... and I got quite used to it... and the arrival of the new apple maps made me quite disgusted and made searching for new places where I sometimes need to get to uncomfortable, because I have to use the browser for that , or try other applications... of course I'm a fan of Apple... but as long as their maps are on the same level as those from Google, I'll stick with it... so let them out as soon as possible ;-)
well, I started using google maps to orient myself when moving around Bratislava by dog... and I got quite used to it... and the arrival of the new apple maps made me quite disgusted and made searching for new places where I sometimes need to get to uncomfortable, because I have to use the browser for that , or try other applications... of course I'm a fan of Apple... but as long as their maps are on the same level as those from Google, I'll stick with it... so let them out as soon as possible ;-)