Re: Google Maps navigation: I (kinda) agree with JC Dill

JC Dill wrote on [Tue, 11 Jan 2011 22:42:40 -0800]:
On 11/01/11 5:25 AM, Justin wrote:
Steve Sobol wrote on [Mon, 10 Jan 2011 22:20:48 -0800]:
I don't completely agree with her, but I do think it takes way too many
steps to get to the GPS navigation.

There are so many ways to get to it, though.

Any app with an address you click it and with seconds you can be driving
there, for example

First you click on the address to load it in the Maps app (NOT the
Navigation app). Then you press/hold on the address in the Maps app to
bring up a menu of options for that location, including Map (return to
the Maps app), Directions, Phone, Street View. To Navigate, select the
right arrow icon, then it asks if you want directions or navigation.
THEN it finally will launch the Navigation app, determine your current
location, calculate a route to the destination, and navigate you to the
destination. It's too many clicks, and too much waiting (because it's
stupid and isn't looking ahead and doing the locating and calculating
before you click on the icons). It's a menu designed by an engineer,
not a UI designer. (Again, I will refer interested readers to the book
The Inmates Are Running The Asylum.)

You must have something different to what I do....

Click on the address, load it into the maps app, click the Go button
make sure it's in driving mode and click the navigate icon and off you go

Sure, it could be better, but that seems simpler than your process
.

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