SoloFlyer Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 They also changed the Thai keyboard, made it 4 lines from 3 ... annoying the locals somewhat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubonrthai Posted September 22, 2012 Author Share Posted September 22, 2012 They also changed the Thai keyboard, made it 4 lines from 3 ... annoying the locals somewhat. I like it. Can find the most used characters faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
angiud Posted September 22, 2012 Share Posted September 22, 2012 Zooming into Koh Chang is interesting It's like they took pictures from different times and different sources and stitched them together. They have a lot more work to do. They should've worked on it 1 more year and just take it out and say "download your own". Like they did with YouTube. Or better yet. Buy Nokia. Put them out of their misery and port their Maps to iPhone. Same for Koh Phangan. The only + is that the map is updated a few years back (google on Phangan around 2001) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muratremix Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 i found a perfect thailand map app for free. Name is nostra map. it seems it is very accurate and updated, it even shows streets in my new mooban in bangkok which google map doesnt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveBKK Posted September 23, 2012 Share Posted September 23, 2012 All you have to do is go to maps.google.com in safari and bookmark to homepage. You now have a web app with ALL the functionality of the old maps app. Now there's a choice of 2. Some things to consider: 1) it'll be good for Google to have some competition finally. 2) it wasn't necessarily 100% Apple's call to drop maps. As with YouTube, Google also wanted to drop it so that they can now run ads (they could not with old YouTube) in their new app. Same thing might be true here....Google wanted something Apple couldn't allow/provide. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bubba Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 All you have to do is go to maps.google.com in safari and bookmark to homepage. You now have a web app with ALL the functionality of the old maps app. Now there's a choice of 2. Some things to consider: 1) it'll be good for Google to have some competition finally. 2) it wasn't necessarily 100% Apple's call to drop maps. As with YouTube, Google also wanted to drop it so that they can now run ads (they could not with old YouTube) in their new app. Same thing might be true here....Google wanted something Apple couldn't allow/provide. Using a web app from maps.google.com will not provide you with street view, as did the iOS 5 Maps app. It's also much slower. It would indeed be good for Google to have some competition. But the new Apple Maps app could hardly be considered competition, and it will be many years before they reach anything close to the Google Maps app that was canned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tchooptip Posted September 24, 2012 Share Posted September 24, 2012 Thank you done in 30 seconds Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wellred Posted September 25, 2012 Share Posted September 25, 2012 I just updated to iOS6 now and am not a happy chappy. Major roads in Thai script, buildings that don't even exist now.... and most places I've checked out in Thailand don't even have any 3D buildings. I have to say for a company that prides itself on a slick experience this is terrible. All I can say is if Google are planning a maps app for iOS then I'm sure many people would happily favour that over Apple's implementation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muratremix Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 I just updated to iOS6 now and am not a happy chappy. Major roads in Thai script, buildings that don't even exist now.... and most places I've checked out in Thailand don't even have any 3D buildings. I have to say for a company that prides itself on a slick experience this is terrible. All I can say is if Google are planning a maps app for iOS then I'm sure many people would happily favour that over Apple's implementation. Just download nostra map. its free. Does anybody bother with my posts regarding this? i found nostra map on appstore, it looks like a logistics company. Their map has the most coverage of Thailand than any other company (including google) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wellred Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 I will download that today. Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
puuchai299 Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 Nostra maps on my iPad is terrible.very lacking in street names,and the more you zoom the more impossible it becomes to see any writing on the map.also the grey theme which can be applied is like a grey cloud,hardly anything visible. Thanks for trying though.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wellred Posted September 26, 2012 Share Posted September 26, 2012 Looks like I will make do with snapshots from google maps. Honestly this is pathetic from apple. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubonrthai Posted September 27, 2012 Author Share Posted September 27, 2012 Nostra is slow and not so beautiful but it does have Thai script along with English which is helpful. Google and Apple can't decide what language to use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muratremix Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 Nostra is slow and not so beautiful but it does have Thai script along with English which is helpful. Google and Apple can't decide what language to use. But it can find address easily and can route directions (not as good as google but anyway). 830k poi in thailand included Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveBKK Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 Good news....looks like the web app version of Google Maps will have street view soon: http://thenextweb.com/google/2012/09/26/google-says-mobile-maps-web-app-get-street-view-two-weeks/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2008bangkok Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 After moving from Blackberry to Iphone I have come to a conclusion that apple make very good hardware and very good iOS but they do not make very good apps, and if they did then everytime I take a photo i wouldnt have to rotate it on my PC, if anyone actually needs to use GPS then i suggest Sygic asia much better than maps, garmin or TomTom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ubonrthai Posted September 27, 2012 Author Share Posted September 27, 2012 Here's a good one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikster Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 After moving from Blackberry to Iphone I have come to a conclusion that apple make very good hardware and very good iOS but they do not make very good apps, and if they did then everytime I take a photo i wouldnt have to rotate it on my PC, if anyone actually needs to use GPS then i suggest Sygic asia much better than maps, garmin or TomTom FYI the whole "rotating" issue is because your PC can't parse the (JPG EXIF standard) rotation flags on the image. Your PC is to blame here, not the phone. Microsoft fixed that in more recent versions of Windows. Older PCs can't display JPGs correctly - what can you say... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mania Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 (edited) Btw. There is a way to downgrade to iOS 5 in case you upgraded to iOS 6 already. Would be very grateful if you would share the method & more specifically does it also work for Ipad2 ? My wife upgraded without checking on possible problems & has enough now that she would like to go back. I did try downloading the IPSW file of iOS 5.1.1 from Apple’s servers That went fine ....all 729 mb of it But using Itunes to restore while holding the option key & then pointing it to the file it starts well but crashes. Got the info here http://www1.maclife....rade_back_ios_5 But as many others reported after using IOS6 you were told you then needed Itunes 10.7 So now there seems to be no way to go back? Seems once on Itunes 10.7 downgrading is not allowed? Do you have any alternative routes? Thank You for any info given. Edited September 27, 2012 by mania Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lomatopo Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 Good news....looks like the web app version of Google Maps will have street view soon: http://thenextweb.co...view-two-weeks/ In the Android world we've had Streetview here for a while. Map caching, turn-by-turn navigation (with spoken directions) requires some modding. Google Earth apk required side-loading. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wellred Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 This is a thread about iOS, not Android and it's obvious support for Google maps and street view. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lomatopo Posted September 28, 2012 Share Posted September 28, 2012 This is a thread about iOS, not Android and it's obvious support for Google maps and street view. Understood. My points, poorly presented, were specific to Thailand, Maps/Nav/Earth and iPhone. Caching of maps has been disabled on Maps for Thailand, and many other countries. (However one can mod this feature.) Navigation is not available for Thailand. (However one can mod. this feature.) Google Earth (app.) appears to be unavailable for DL in Thailand, but can be side-loaded. Streetview, for Thailand and specifically Bangkok, has been available for a while, and some may enjoy using it when it becomes available on the iPhone. Personally I'd like to have a Garmin app., like you do for iOS, with Android. I'm using TSM 12.01 on my Garmin GPS, and believe that can be loaded onto the Garmin/iPhone combination? http://blogs.independent.co.uk/2012/09/21/garmin-capitalises-on-iphone-5-mapping-disaster/ http://www.iclarified.com/24728/garmin-updates-its-iphone-app-with-public-transit-directions-google-street-view 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2008bangkok Posted September 28, 2012 Share Posted September 28, 2012 After moving from Blackberry to Iphone I have come to a conclusion that apple make very good hardware and very good iOS but they do not make very good apps, and if they did then everytime I take a photo i wouldnt have to rotate it on my PC, if anyone actually needs to use GPS then i suggest Sygic asia much better than maps, garmin or TomTom FYI the whole "rotating" issue is because your PC can't parse the (JPG EXIF standard) rotation flags on the image. Your PC is to blame here, not the phone. Microsoft fixed that in more recent versions of Windows. Older PCs can't display JPGs correctly - what can you say... Please take a photo with the home button down(portrait) send it to anybody with a yahoo or hotmail email address, open it on any browser, on any pc or mac....... and then come back and tell me its not the phones fault!! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CDNinKS Posted September 28, 2012 Share Posted September 28, 2012 After moving from Blackberry to Iphone I have come to a conclusion that apple make very good hardware and very good iOS but they do not make very good apps, and if they did then everytime I take a photo i wouldnt have to rotate it on my PC, if anyone actually needs to use GPS then i suggest Sygic asia much better than maps, garmin or TomTom FYI the whole "rotating" issue is because your PC can't parse the (JPG EXIF standard) rotation flags on the image. Your PC is to blame here, not the phone. Microsoft fixed that in more recent versions of Windows. Older PCs can't display JPGs correctly - what can you say... Please take a photo with the home button down(portrait) send it to anybody with a yahoo or hotmail email address, open it on any browser, on any pc or mac....... and then come back and tell me its not the phones fault!! Not wanting to get into a pi##ing match, really just wanted to see what this was all about. I did what you suggested and interestingly when opened in my Apple mail it was orientated correctly. However when I logged into my Hotmail with Firefox you are correct it shows it in landscape. Weird..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tchooptip Posted September 28, 2012 Share Posted September 28, 2012 I remember that when Google maps first came out, the maps were all in Thai too. It was totally useless to people like me who can't read Thai. I even sent them an email complaining about it at the time. Thankfully that changed. Let's send lots of iOS maps feedback to Apple so they'll fix those things quickly... Google Maps app should come out pretty soon too. Edit: It's a classic case of things having to get worse before they can get better... Apple in control of maps means they can improve it. Google meant stagnation. When I read your post I thought OK if part of the new Apple map is in Thai (I had not even open it) I will try to enter a name in Thai, I made a copy/paste of my wife village in North, it did work, one second and the little pin was... in a wrong place, but the name in Thai was not refused, So I entered กรุงเทพฯ and it works right, Bangkok, why did I do that because for some remote little place, it could be easier to have the right name in Thai, in English how do you translate with thr right spelling ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsox44 Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 First adopter issues... will take some time to resolve... Yea bout the same time the iPhon 8 arrives here in Thailand..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaicruze Posted October 2, 2012 Share Posted October 2, 2012 Google should make Google maps app available for iPhone with HUGE annoying ads everywhere and with half the features, but nice and clean and fully featured on Android. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rijb Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 Get Google Street View Maps On Your iPhone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
muratremix Posted October 5, 2012 Share Posted October 5, 2012 its amazing people still recommend sluggish google maps on safari mobile. Turn by turn navigation is working in thailand as of this month. Map data is not that bad, its provided by tomtom. if you use a gps app in iphone, you should be familiar with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nikster Posted October 6, 2012 Share Posted October 6, 2012 After moving from Blackberry to Iphone I have come to a conclusion that apple make very good hardware and very good iOS but they do not make very good apps, and if they did then everytime I take a photo i wouldnt have to rotate it on my PC, if anyone actually needs to use GPS then i suggest Sygic asia much better than maps, garmin or TomTom FYI the whole "rotating" issue is because your PC can't parse the (JPG EXIF standard) rotation flags on the image. Your PC is to blame here, not the phone. Microsoft fixed that in more recent versions of Windows. Older PCs can't display JPGs correctly - what can you say... Please take a photo with the home button down(portrait) send it to anybody with a yahoo or hotmail email address, open it on any browser, on any pc or mac....... and then come back and tell me its not the phones fault!! It's not the phone's fault. Here is a pretty good explanation of what's happening: http://rydama.com/2012/05/02/why-is-my-picture-sideways/ Apple's stance on this is: We're not going to re-encode the image, because that results in a loss of quality. It also uses resources (e.g. battery). We're going to expect everyone to honor the orientation flag in the image. It's a classic example of when you have to choose between advancing technology or stagnation serving the lowest common denominator. Do you do the wrong thing just because some clients out there can't deal with the (standard) orientation flag? Typical Apple to move forward. Why those websites don't do it - I have no idea. I've dealt with this orientation flag in my own software, and admittedly, it's annoying. But it's not hard. It might depend on the browser you are using. Try Chrome and see if you still have the issue. Or get the app mentioned in the above article. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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