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Re: Apple increases its navigation nous

Date 2015-05-25 19:17 -0400
From Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca>
Newsgroups comp.sys.mac.system
Subject Re: Apple increases its navigation nous
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On 2015-05-25 18:34, John McWilliams wrote:
> On 5/24/15   PDT 7:57 AM, Alan Browne wrote:
>> On 2015-05-23 22:00, John McWilliams wrote:
>>> On 5/23/15   PDT 5:31 PM, Király wrote:
>>>> John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> wrote:
>>>>>> How did you do it?
>>>>>
>>>>> Type in location name in "Start"
>>>>> Type in desired destination in "End"
>>>>
>>>> That's not what I asked. I asked how to plot directions between two
>>>> points I *select on the map*, not addresses I type in a box (assuming I
>>>> even know the addresses).
>>>>
>>>> I find it rather incredible that what I consider to be a basic feature
>>>> of any direction-plotting mapping program could be missing from Apple
>>>> Maps.
>>>
>>> Well, I certainly goofed in not recognizing the critical importance to
>>> you in clicking rather than typing. Sorry.
>>
>> You goofed in not recognizing that a visual UI should allow visual
>> selection of start and end points ... as Google maps has been doing for
>> a very long time (over 10 years, at least).
>>
> That's your should, and not mine.  But a pin drop any where give a
> "Directions to here" and if you know where you started, a piece of cake.

And by extension a "Directions from here" pin (rather than where Maps 
apps believes it is) is easy to add to the dropdown list.  As Google 
Maps has had for a decade.

Of course my iMac doesn't know where it is (as WiFi is off) so the whole 
"Directions to here" can't work with the pin.

It's really poorly thought out.  There is no excuse for it at all.

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Apple increases its navigation nous Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-05-17 18:24 -0400
  Re: Apple increases its navigation nous me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2015-05-18 20:46 +0000
    Re: Apple increases its navigation nous BobbyK <bknight@Conramp.net> - 2015-05-18 16:02 -0500
      Re: Apple increases its navigation nous gtr <xxx@yyy.zzz> - 2015-05-18 14:40 -0700
        Re: Apple increases its navigation nous Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-05-19 00:14 +0000
    Re: Apple increases its navigation nous Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-05-18 19:28 -0400
      Re: Apple increases its navigation nous Warren Oates <warren.oates@gmail.com> - 2015-05-18 20:00 -0400
      Re: Apple increases its navigation nous me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2015-05-19 06:16 +0000
        Re: Apple increases its navigation nous George Kerby <ghost_topper@hotmail.com> - 2015-05-19 10:47 -0500
        Re: Apple increases its navigation nous JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-05-19 13:35 -0400
        Re: Apple increases its navigation nous JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-05-19 13:38 -0400
        Re: Apple increases its navigation nous Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-05-19 19:01 -0400
          Re: Apple increases its navigation nous JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-05-20 02:36 -0400
            Re: Apple increases its navigation nous "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-05-20 17:19 +1000
    Re: Apple increases its navigation nous Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2015-05-19 13:43 +0000
  Re: Apple increases its navigation nous David Moorman <email@domain.com> - 2015-05-18 22:17 -0500
    Re: Apple increases its navigation nous Davoud <star@sky.net> - 2015-05-19 11:11 -0400
      Re: Apple increases its navigation nous Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-05-19 23:01 +0000
        Re: Apple increases its navigation nous me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2015-05-22 13:56 +0000
          Re: Apple increases its navigation nous John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2015-05-22 16:20 -0700
            Re: Apple increases its navigation nous me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2015-05-23 06:23 +0000
              Re: Apple increases its navigation nous John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2015-05-23 12:56 -0700
                Re: Apple increases its navigation nous Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-05-23 17:58 -0400
                Re: Apple increases its navigation nous me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2015-05-24 00:31 +0000
                Re: Apple increases its navigation nous JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2015-05-23 21:36 -0400
                Re: Apple increases its navigation nous John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2015-05-23 19:00 -0700
                Re: Apple increases its navigation nous Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-05-24 10:57 -0400
                Re: Apple increases its navigation nous John McWilliams <jpmcw@comcast.net> - 2015-05-25 15:34 -0700
                Re: Apple increases its navigation nous Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-05-25 19:17 -0400
                Re: Apple increases its navigation nous me@home.spamsucks.ca (Király) - 2015-05-26 06:05 +0000
                Re: Apple increases its navigation nous Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-05-26 09:49 -0400
            Re: Apple increases its navigation nous Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-05-23 08:03 -0400

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