Newest iPhone FAQs. What is my Apple ID? How Much is the iPhone 5? What is the iOS 6 release date? Your name. Google will slap its own icon on your home screen, though it initially grabbed a picture of the current map I was viewing before swapping it out. This is imperfect, but it appears to be the quickest way to use Google Maps on your iOS device right now. I found that Google Maps was a bit slower with more choppy movement when accessed via Safari, but the maps were still perfectly usable.
A menu bar runs across the top of the map and features a search box and four buttons to see your current location, get directions, and see your saved places or select a layer for satellite, traffic, or bicycling. Alas, Street View goes missing when accessing Google Maps via a mobile browser.
It's a free universal app, though for 99 cents it'll remove the ads while adding bookmarks and landmarks. Here's two screenshots of the same tricky turn on a road in the UK. What's happening here is that there's a dual carriageway, but the median between the two carriageways is full up with mature trees.
The Google Maps image gives you more of an indication that there's greenery. All the iOS 6 Maps one is doing is telling you that there are some roads. With the iOS 6 Maps one there's a bias towards you having personal pre-knowledge of the area that you're driving through.
Google Maps assumes that you don't know where you are. Google Maps also renders roads in the correct colour. This sort of road in the UK is signposted using green colouring, which Google Maps uses. For UK users, iOS 6 Maps look like they're obsessed with everything being a motorway which happen to be blue. Another thing that Google Maps will do is allow you to fiddle with the map view during navigation. Oftentimes you can be in a situation where you have two possible routes home and you know one is filled up with traffic and the other relatively clear.
You might want to inquire whether the system is routing you through the one without traffic. In this screenshot all I had to do was pull over, twiddle with the maps to see that it was taking me on the route to the right rather than the more straight-on route.
I happened to know the straight-on route was rammed with traffic. On iOS 6 Maps you can do this, but it's more fussy. That's why Google wins this fight. One glance from that fantastically clear rendering and you know what's going on and you can park the phone back in your mental periphery and get on with your day. Turn-by-turn directions on iOS 6 Maps is fussier to use and has maps which are substantially less clear.
Perhaps counter-intuitively, it's a lack of information that makes them less clear. There are some other points too. With two choices: either learn to love Apple's Maps app or download the Google Maps app. Actively scan device characteristics for identification.
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