I just tested Siri out with some directions to make sure I was saying this right. Here is the way I did it, and I will give you an example. Generally, it uses your current location to start with if you are sitting somewhere or in the car. So, when I was sitting here in my house I said "Siri I need directions to 1100 Commerce St. "Siri immediately went to Maps and had the directions there and if I had been in a car they would've been spoken. It's my understanding that with iOS 7, there will be pedestrian mode also.
I do have NAVIGON, and I like it a lot. I also have the Seeing Eye GPS on my iPhone as well. I haven't used it enough yet to decide what I think about that in vehicle mode, but I do like it in pedestrian mode. In fact, I like the Seeing Eye GPS in pedestrian mode better then Navigon because it tells you further out what you're going to do. I like that so I can make a decision to use a different street than the one the application is recommending. Regards, Gigi Sent from my iPhone On Jul 28, 2013, at 7:34 PM, Jessica Moss <junglebookfa...@gmail.com> wrote: > Can I get a few tips on using Apple Maps with Siri, or just how to use it in > general? I tried using it a couple times recently when I was looking for a > particular landmark, and found the mapquest app to be anything but helpful, > but when I put in the info that I could've spelled wrong, I got no results, > and don't know how to check it very well when it comes to points of interest. > I eventually managed to find what I was looking for as we were driving, but > at that point, what was the point in that sense we were almost there? Also, > is there a means to using it and running another task in the background, or > will voiceover not read directions if I've switched tasks? > It doesn't seem to on my end, but wasn't sure if there was a work-around for > this, which I find extremely frustrating. > On Jul 28, 2013, at 9:24 AM, Jamie Pauls wrote: > >> Apple maps with Siri works great. I am also quite impressed with NAVIGON. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Jul 27, 2013, at 8:25 PM, Shen <goalb...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> Hi everyone, >>> My wife and I are going to Italy in September for our vacation. >>> What GPS apps would you recommend that will work well when we are there? We >>> will have our iPhones with us. >>> Any recommendations are appreciated. >>> >>> Shen >>> goalb...@gmail.com >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >>> "MacVisionaries" group. >>> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >>> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >>> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >>> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >>> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. >> Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to macvisionaries@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
