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koli
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Fri Sep 28, 2012 7:50 pm |
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paulzolo
What's a life?
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Apple have posted a Maps App banner in their App Store home page. Tapping it links to a selection of apps on the store, mostly those mentioned in the letter.
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Sat Sep 29, 2012 11:42 pm |
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koli
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Sun Sep 30, 2012 9:13 pm |
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paulzolo
What's a life?
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Hardly surprising, really. Another feature that is just wrong with I is the colour scheme. Certainly, if you are used to road atlases, you will recognise the different classes of roads from the colours. The Google based version of the app retained that colour scheme. The new version does not.
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Sun Sep 30, 2012 10:38 pm |
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JJW009
I haven't seen my friends in so long
Joined: Thu Apr 23, 2009 6:58 pm Posts: 8767 Location: behind the sofa
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Someone with something good to say about Maps: http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/10/re ... edecessor/Saves you bandwidth!
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Fri Oct 05, 2012 5:19 am |
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paulzolo
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For what it's worth - the satellite images for where I am have improved a lot. Still problems with data (place names, etc.) though.
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Fri Oct 05, 2012 7:40 am |
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Amnesia10
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The satellite images for my areas still look like a very cloudy day.
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Sun Oct 07, 2012 9:10 am |
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paulzolo
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You should look at Colchester.
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Sun Oct 07, 2012 10:22 am |
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jonbwfc
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Wed Nov 28, 2012 11:31 am |
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paulzolo
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The thing I like a lot about Google's offering is the colour scheme. It looms like a road atlas, so you know instantly what the roads are. Apple's maps app just does not do this, and so from a glance it's harder to determine what you are looking at. Really, they should be following common conventions. Personally, they could do really well if they provided varying skins or colour schemes so that their maps appear familiar to ramblers, walkers, motorists, etc.. In other news - they have updated their imagery for my area. My current car is in the drive, not the previous one 
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Wed Nov 28, 2012 12:05 pm |
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Amnesia10
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Since my last comment the satellite maps are now clear so that you can see the buildings and so identify buildings around my location. The numbers of stores shown seems to have increased and it is easier to report problems, or at least I have learned how to move the pins. It is definitely getting there.
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Wed Nov 28, 2012 12:10 pm |
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EddArmitage
I haven't seen my friends in so long
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The building wot I am sitting in right now appears to have been added, as do 2 of the other 3 buildings in this estate-thing. In fact they're using the self-same imagery as Google. Bing has the most up-to-date mapping.
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Wed Nov 28, 2012 2:21 pm |
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