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Google maps to IOS

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TuxDave said:
I do that on the fly. I ignore part of the directions and make it recalculate a route. 😀
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I did that on the drive back after being screwed by Google Maps. I was using my wife's iPhone4S Apple Maps on the drive back since it routed me to stay on the major interstate. I also had Google Maps on my phone running. About one hour on the drive back, Google Maps tried to make me exit off the highway into the back roads. I ignored it and followed the Apple maps which told me to stay on the interstate. For the next 50 miles or so, the damn Google Maps kept rerouting and told me to turn around if possible at every exit. I had to drive for about 40 minutes before the damn thing would shut up and reroute back to the highway which is what I wanted.
 
My Garmin usually doesn't do that (although it does sometimes), but my Magellan did that all the time. Different algorithms, yielding different results, even when settings are similar.
 
ponyo said:
I did that on the drive back after being screwed by Google Maps. I was using my wife's iPhone4S Apple Maps on the drive back since it routed me to stay on the major interstate. I also had Google Maps on my phone running. About one hour on the drive back, Google Maps tried to make me exit off the highway into the back roads. I ignored it and followed the Apple maps which told me to stay on the interstate. For the next 50 miles or so, the damn Google Maps kept rerouting and told me to turn around if possible at every exit. I had to drive for about 40 minutes before the damn thing would shut up and reroute back to the highway which is what I wanted.
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You didn't think to shut off voice after like the first or second time it asked?
 
ponyo said:
I did that on the drive back after being screwed by Google Maps. I was using my wife's iPhone4S Apple Maps on the drive back since it routed me to stay on the major interstate. I also had Google Maps on my phone running. About one hour on the drive back, Google Maps tried to make me exit off the highway into the back roads. I ignored it and followed the Apple maps which told me to stay on the interstate. For the next 50 miles or so, the damn Google Maps kept rerouting and told me to turn around if possible at every exit. I had to drive for about 40 minutes before the damn thing would shut up and reroute back to the highway which is what I wanted.
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Are you sure you didn't have the "avoid highways" setting on?
 
Anonemous said:
huh, is there an option to toggle highways or toll roads/ferries?
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It's not super obvious how to set it. You have to choose a destination and when you get to the point where you get to select how you want to get there, there's a grey box right above those routes under "route options". That's where you can toggle it. Again, it's poorly placed. You'd think it would be in some big "settings" thing that's available right off the bat.

(this is to help answer Silverpig's question because until I started looking for it, I actually had no idea where to toggle it)
 
TuxDave said:
It's not super obvious how to set it. You have to choose a destination and when you get to the point where you get to select how you want to get there, there's a grey box right above those routes under "route options". That's where you can toggle it. Again, it's poorly placed. You'd think it would be in some big "settings" thing that's available right off the bat.

(this is to help answer Silverpig's question because until I started looking for it, I actually had no idea where to toggle it)
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Thanks, had to google how to toggle highways/tolls.
 
silverpig said:
Are you sure you didn't have the "avoid highways" setting on?
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No, I did not. I'm fully aware of the avoid highways and avoid tolls options on the Navigation menu. It's hard to miss on the Android when it's the very first item on the Navigation menu.
 
Google Maps sucks a fair bit of Apple juice on the iPhone 4, but that's kind of expected because the screen is kept on.

BTW, if you're on an iPhone 4 and still on iOS 5, I suggest staying there. iOS 5.1 + Google Maps would be a great combo on an iPhone 4. There's not much reason to "upgrade" to iOS 6, unless you absolutely must have facebook and twitter integration. To me, that's just clutter, and the peppier OS feel of iOS 5 is preferable. With Google Maps, iOS 5.1 is now complete.
 
Eug said:
Google Maps sucks a fair bit of Apple juice on the iPhone 4, but that's kind of expected because the screen is kept on.

BTW, if you're on an iPhone 4 and still on iOS 5, I suggest staying there. iOS 5.1 + Google Maps would be a great combo on an iPhone 4. There's not much reason to "upgrade" to iOS 6, unless you absolutely must have facebook and twitter integration. To me, that's just clutter, and the peppier OS feel of iOS 5 is preferable. With Google Maps, iOS 5.1 is now complete.
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Does iOS 6 lag on an iPhone 4?
 
Not so much in-app lag (although Google Maps is laggy for some screen switching), but app-loading and app switching shows more delays than there were in iOS 5.

I'm sure part of it has to do with the single-core CPU, but I wonder if part of it is also related to the 512 MB RAM. (I don't have a 4S with which to compare. The 4S is dual-core, but has the same 512 MB RAM.)
 
I don't plan to download Google Map because I don't like the idea of two map apps with one iPhone and you don't have much space left if you have a 16GB iPhone.
 
Rottie said:
I don't plan to download Google Map because I don't like the idea of two map apps with one iPhone and you don't have much space left if you have a 16GB iPhone.
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Uh, are you trolling us? Cuz if not, you're nuts.

Google Maps is only 13 MB, and on my phone it's using less than 6 MB of storage. Total less than 20 MB.

The actual maps are not loaded on the phone. You need internet access for it. I'm guessing a couple of hundred MB per month if you use it a lot, or less than 50 MB per month if you don't use it much.
 
Eug said:
Uh, are you trolling us? Cuz if not, you're nuts.

Google Maps is only 13 MB, and on my phone it's using less than 6 MB of storage. Total less than 20 MB.

The actual maps are not loaded on the phone. You need internet access for it. I'm guessing a couple of hundred MB per month if you use it a lot, or less than 50 MB per month if you don't use it much.
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The iOS version doesn't have offline support right? If not then it definitely wouldn't take much room.
 
Eug said:
Uh, are you trolling us? Cuz if not, you're nuts.

Google Maps is only 13 MB, and on my phone it's using less than 6 MB of storage. Total less than 20 MB.

The actual maps are not loaded on the phone. You need internet access for it. I'm guessing a couple of hundred MB per month if you use it a lot, or less than 50 MB per month if you don't use it much.
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He's an Apple troll.
Check his post history.
 
Capt Caveman said:
Unless I'm just clueless, can you add more than one driving point? And I'm guessing it's not integrated with your Contacts?
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Correct, not integrated with contacts but it is integrated with your google maps search history and stars/favorites, which is super nice.

I wish that I could pre-route a trip using GMaps on my computer, and then push that to my device. That way I know where I am, etc but get to take the route I want. Doesn't even have to be GMaps, any service I can do that I'll switch over to.
 
Wonderful Pork said:
Correct, not integrated with contacts but it is integrated with your google maps search history and stars/favorites, which is super nice.

I wish that I could pre-route a trip using GMaps on my computer, and then push that to my device. That way I know where I am, etc but get to take the route I want. Doesn't even have to be GMaps, any service I can do that I'll switch over to.
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Try getting a link from gmaps desktop and emailing that to yourself? Works on android.
 
zerocool84 said:
Google gives you the shortest route, if you don't like it then use an alternate route it gives you or go your own way. It's doing it's job correctly, not its fault you're speeding.
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This needs to be configurable. Shortest is most definitely not desirable over quickest for me. On numerous occasions I've ignored the suggested route and it has recalculated a considerably quicker and less congested, albeit slightly longer route.
 
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