{"id":10167,"date":"2014-11-28T11:54:29","date_gmt":"2014-11-28T16:54:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=10167"},"modified":"2014-11-28T11:54:29","modified_gmt":"2014-11-28T16:54:29","slug":"first-person-view-in-google-maps-navigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/28\/first-person-view-in-google-maps-navigation\/","title":{"rendered":"First-Person View in Google Maps Navigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/how-to-toggle-first-person-view-in-google-maps-navigati-1646730312\">Whitson Gordon<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/how-to-toggle-first-person-view-in-google-maps-navigati-1646730312\">\n<p>It&rsquo;s very simple: just tap the compass icon in the corner! This should switch you to the first-person navigation view that, in most cases, is much easier to use (especially while you&rsquo;re driving). If you prefer the map view in any scenario, you can just tap the compass icon again to go back.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>After the recent update, Google Maps stopped showing me the first-person view, and so I thought Google had simply gotten rid of it. It&rsquo;s great to be able to get it back.<\/p>\n<p>Before I had a chance to search for how to do this, I gave Apple Maps a try for two trips. It&rsquo;s nice to be able to control it hands-free via Siri. However, it almost led us astray, suddenly suggesting a U-turn and an 8-mile drive to a completely different location just when our destination was in sight. On another trip, the map stopped updating for a minute or two, just as we started navigating through an unfamiliar city center. That had never happened with Google Maps. It was also off by a block with the location of the restaurant, which again Google had exactly right.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whitson Gordon: It&rsquo;s very simple: just tap the compass icon in the corner! This should switch you to the first-person navigation view that, in most cases, is much easier to use (especially while you&rsquo;re driving). If you prefer the map view in any scenario, you can just tap the compass icon again to go back. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[618,245,31,26,247],"class_list":["post-10167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-maps","tag-googlemaps","tag-ios","tag-iosapp","tag-siri"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10167"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10168,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10167\/revisions\/10168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}