{"id":6679,"date":"2012-12-13T14:26:41","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T19:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=6679"},"modified":"2014-09-15T23:21:10","modified_gmt":"2014-09-16T03:21:10","slug":"google-maps-for-iphone-1-0","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/13\/google-maps-for-iphone-1-0\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Maps for iPhone 1.0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/app\/id585027354?mt=8\">Google Maps for iPhone<\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/googleblog.blogspot.com\/2012\/12\/google-maps-is-now-available-for-iphone.html\">now available<\/a>, along with an <a href=\"http:\/\/googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com\/2012\/12\/a-new-way-to-add-google-maps-to-your.html\">SDK for iOS<\/a> and a <a href=\"https:\/\/developers.google.com\/maps\/documentation\/ios\/urlscheme\">URL scheme<\/a>. The map data is top notch, and I don&rsquo;t understand the reviews stating that Apple&rsquo;s rendering is better. In my view, Google&rsquo;s maps are so much easier on the eyes, and with so much more information, that they totally outclass Apple&rsquo;s offering. It&rsquo;s like looking at a real map vs. a Fisher-Price one. Plus, of course, there are Street View and transit info.<\/p>\r\n<p>The iOS 5 Maps app, though using Google&rsquo;s data, was designed by Apple. I&rsquo;m not a fan of Google&rsquo;s Mac app interfaces, so I was a bit worried about what it would come up with for its app. It&rsquo;s actually fine, though, and in some ways better than either of the Apple&rsquo;s built-in Maps apps.<\/p>\r\n<p>There&rsquo;s one giant flaw, though: it doesn&rsquo;t integrate with the iPhone&rsquo;s Contacts database&mdash;or even with your Google contacts. Get ready for lots of Copy and Paste. (When traveling, I use a group in Contacts on the Mac to store all the locations that I plan to visit. Since tapping an address in Contacts on the phone will open Apple&rsquo;s Maps app, I really need to be able to access the contacts list from within Google Maps.)<\/p>\r\n<p>There&rsquo;s also no iPad version, though I assume one is in the works.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google Maps for iPhone is now available, along with an SDK for iOS and a URL scheme. The map data is top notch, and I don&rsquo;t understand the reviews stating that Apple&rsquo;s rendering is better. In my view, Google&rsquo;s maps are so much easier on the eyes, and with so much more information, that they [&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":[618,51,245,31,26,106],"class_list":["post-6679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple-maps","tag-google","tag-googlemaps","tag-ios","tag-iosapp","tag-maps"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6679","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=6679"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9612,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6679\/revisions\/9612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}