Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.glorb.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local2.nntp.dca.giganews.com!news.giganews.com.POSTED!not-for-mail
NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 13:31:29 -0500
From: Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca>
Subject: Re: App]le Maps
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system
References: <562897f3$0$27876$b1db1813$2411a48f@news.astraweb.com> <xvGdnXtN7YOzRrXLnZ2dnUU7-VednZ2d@giganews.com> <slrnn2ia9g.139d.g.kreme@amelia.local> <yP6dnXjHELM_wLTLnZ2dnUU7-Q-dnZ2d@giganews.com> <slrnn2jmbh.9gh.g.kreme@amelia.local>
X-Mozilla-News-Host: news://news.giganews.com
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 14:31:29 -0400
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.3.0
MIME-Version: 1.0
In-Reply-To: <slrnn2jmbh.9gh.g.kreme@amelia.local>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Message-ID: <joGdnZBTO4Oc4LfLnZ2dnUU7-eGdnZ2d@giganews.com>
Lines: 32
X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com
X-Trace: sv3-Ndx6fZSY/rYZPGh3U2Oxwccq+xHA3kmYulcBMOutjguR5p7X0zeKVmGsYYRGcJzEAA0Z6bMM9/4Y7f8!9MW562ub5NgVRwdHGD3r16ZW7XbqGXQWN8nCBkOtVVk56kSDgN6MQs2hBptFxMvILATnsrzZyg==
X-Complaints-To: abuse@giganews.com
X-DMCA-Notifications: http://www.giganews.com/info/dmca.html
X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers
X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly
X-Postfilter: 1.3.40
X-Original-Bytes: 2858
Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:84027

On 2015-10-23 02:51, Lewis wrote:
> In message <yP6dnXjHELM_wLTLnZ2dnUU7-Q-dnZ2d@giganews.com>
>    Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
>> On 2015-10-22 14:19, Lewis wrote:
>>> In message <xvGdnXtN7YOzRrXLnZ2dnUU7-VednZ2d@giganews.com>
>>>     Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:
>>>> OTOH, planning a trip from point A to point B when you are at neither is
>>>> a PITA in Apple Maps as you can't enter arbitrary begin/end points as
>>>> you can so simply in Google Maps.
>>>
>>> Complete and utter bullshit.
>
>> Complete and utter truth.
>
> Nope. I have directions on my screen right now for Vancouver to
> Vancouver. I am not in either Washington nor British Columbia.


Sure.  But you didn't do it by clicking on start and end points as 
easily as one does in Google Maps.  In fact you can't do it at all w/o 
entering one of them in the start field (or using current location if 
the Mac can determine it).

Google Maps is just more flexible in route define/edit, offers drag 
point editing of the route and shows traffic (real time or history 
based) in a clearer fashion than Apple Maps.

Apple Maps presents a nifty 3D of the world and can upload the route to 
ones phone.  Nice.  But for practicality, GM is far better.

Never mind that Mass Transit in Google Maps is pretty much anywhere in 
the world whereas Apple Maps is US and some other countries.  Not many.