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Has any one used Bing Maps in San Francisco? If so, can you comment on how good it is with public transport?
In particular, the complete lack of public transit data (which I used heavily) and poor turn-by-turn where big factors in driving me to get an Android device with Google Maps.
Has any one used Bing Maps in San Francisco? If so, can you comment on how good it is with public transport?
It took me about 5 tries for it to actually find the address I kept searching for and tapping on, but once it 'took' the directions were accurate and easy to follow (walking to the stop, which bus, how long, etc).
Has any one used Bing Maps in San Francisco? If so, can you comment on how good it is with public transport?
Good third party options:
- The Transit App – http://thetransitapp.com
- Lumatic City Maps – http://lumatic.com
- Transporter – http://www.transporterapp.net
- Pocket Muni – http://www.pocketbus.com
The first two also do routing and integrate with iOS 6 Maps. Regarding public transit I am actually happier with iOS 6 than I was before, precisely because of the 3rd party integration.
Strangely, Microsoft hasn't put the Bing app in the Canadian app store. The app's been out for ages now, and is still US only (as far as I know?). I can't for the life of me figure out a good reason for this. Bing.com has local search results for Canada, so it's not that. Not that it's putting me out. I can search bing from Safari. Just a strange move on their part. It's like the intern who's job it was to ready the…
As an European Windows Phone user i'm doubting that they are aware that there's a world outside USA. A lot of features are disabled for no good reason, and the rest of them has no data for Denmark. For example when you play music on your phone you can set it to show pictures of the artist on the lock screen. On my phone the background just turns red. Also Local scout is disabled, though there aren't any data for it i…
Bing Maps have been rapidly improving over the past year and no one seems to have picked-up on it. via their deal with Nokia, Microsoft is slowly updating the backend data, incorporating Navteq's over 20+ years of mapping tech. its not quite up to parity with Nokia Maps (or Google) internationally yet, but it's come a long way and (i'm guessing) easily beats-out Apple's quickly-built homegrown implementation. for tho…
Bing like many other major sites, make the poor assumption that the user's location == preferred language.
From a usability perspective, the interface language should primarily be based on the browser user agent Accept Language, and THEN an ip-to-geo database lookup can OFFER the user the location based user interface language.
Finally there should always be a way to change language.
Bing, as in the entirety of Bing, does not have a way to change language. I am currently in Germany, and there isn't a way for me to use the maps in English.
It is a schoolboy mistake from a major player. Idiotic if you ask me.
So if I take a balanced view and consider that there are good things about the new Apple Maps but on the whole think there was a laughable lack of quality control -- that makes me a 'hater'.
Words are the functions of speech -- the API of natural language. Differentiation of meaning matters. Using crudely simplified language is like using a crudely simplified API in your programme; it restricts the scope of your expression and what you can create.
If we insist on 'beautiful' APIs with our software, why not go further and reach for the right word when it comes to criticising software?
Strangely, Microsoft hasn't put the Bing app in the Canadian app store. The app's been out for ages now, and is still US only (as far as I know?). I can't for the life of me figure out a good reason for this. Bing.com has local search results for Canada, so it's not that. Not that it's putting me out. I can search bing from Safari. Just a strange move on their part. It's like the intern who's job it was to ready the…
> Strangely, Microsoft hasn't put the Bing app in the Canadian app store. Isn't in my mainland europe store either, though I have "Bing Get MeThere" which is apparently for London traffic and public transport (I'm not in the UK). > It's like the intern who's job it was to ready the international version got fired and nobody checked his pending workload. And considering the biggest issues Apple Maps have are outside t…