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Google Maps is finally here for the iPhone, which means we’ve ditched that pathetic excuse for a navigation system, Apple Maps. The problem is, when you ask Siri how to get somewhere, it opens Apple Maps. But, with one tiny vocal addition you can make Google Maps one tap away — no jailbreak required.
All you have to do is add “via transit” to the end of your search query. Siri will then open Apple Maps, but then give you the option to pull down your “routing” information via one of your installed programs. That’s Google Maps for most of us, so with a single tap, you can then fire up Google Maps and automatically get the route to your destination of choice.
It’s not ideal, but without jailbreaking, that’s the best Siri can do for you, well, without resorting to fabricating contacts, but that seems rather long winded (look what you force us to resort to Apple?). [YouTube via 9to5Mac]
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That is if you have a shiny 4S or 5, we with the 4 still have no Siri damn it!
I actually used the new Google maps recently for directions and wow, it’s much better than even Google Maps used to be, It has made my sat nav obsolete!
The nicest touch is that not only can you play music on your iphone and still hear the directions, but you dont even have to be in Google Maps to hear them. You still hear the music, the directions when relevant and it flashes up a banner notification if you’re checking your mail or texting. For the first time, my iPhone felt like it was actually multi tasking!
On a side note, any news on what this weeks competition will be Sam? And how am i going to have to whore myself out to win this one? as i’ve failed with all the other ones i’ve entered so far!!
I think we have one that will be a match for your talents here Spatchy, but you’ll have to wait till 1pm to find out.
Ok, it better a competition where either you have to have a username thats an anagram of ‘At Chomps’, you have to be able to eat 16 hamburgers in one day or down a Guinness in under 4 seconds otherwise i will be cancelling my subscription and writing a strong letter of disapproval to our local Methodist Church Youth Group!!
You have been warned.
And they were just getting through the back log of previous letters too!
I started writing to them after i was given a court order telling me to stop harassing the Horley Town Rotary Circle about this kind of thing and i only started writing to the Rotary Circle after the Tory ex cabinet MP Crispin Blunt threatened to have me sectioned, but i shown hm good and proper, i shown him alright.
You sure did fella …you sure did!
“I think we have one that will be a match for your talents here Spatchy, but you’ll have to wait till 1pm to find out”
You know, it’s not lost on me that the Competition in question, the one thats a match for my talents, that one, it’s not escaped my attention that the winner is picked at random and all you have to do is comment on the right story.
Match my talents, why i oughta…..
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It works… kinda. Problem is, it first tries to locate the place with Apple Maps, and then uses that location in Google Maps, rather than searching for it in Google Maps straight up.
So if wherever you’re going isn’t on Apple Maps (like any Tesco on the Isle of Wight!), you’re gonna have a bad time.