Google Maps and iPhone Maps
Apr. 15th, 2009 08:23 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mik3capI'm really looking forward to improvements in Maps in iPhoneOS 3.0. Opening up access to Maps via API means that Apple and/or Google can create better native iPhone implementations of things like saved Google maps. I really enjoy making maps with saved locations at maps.google.com, but I think I would enjoy it much more if I could also do this on my iPhone (natively, not through iPhone Safari, that's unusable). I should be able to do much, much more interesting things with Maps on the iPhone; I should be able to track my path with GPS and Core Location, associate photos with locations... and if the alleged magnetometer hardware improvement comes with the next iPhone release, I should have real-time street view that animates and turns with me to show me my heading, and turn-by-turn animated path directions and alerts when I go the wrong way.
I want nothing less than for Maps on iPhone to become an augmented reality app - one that I could even improve by adding my own photos of current locations to street view! It should be a viewscreen that I hold up to the street that matches with the buildings and roads and indicates what direction I need to head to.
I want nothing less than for Maps on iPhone to become an augmented reality app - one that I could even improve by adding my own photos of current locations to street view! It should be a viewscreen that I hold up to the street that matches with the buildings and roads and indicates what direction I need to head to.