Route planning on iPhone

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Gillian Snoxall

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Jul 5, 2022, 4:22:54 AM7/5/22
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Morning Smuggers,

I would be grateful if anyone can tell me how to use my iPhone for getting from A to B – i.e. route planning.

Gilly

Russell Brown

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Jul 5, 2022, 4:37:20 AM7/5/22
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Hi Gilly

You need a map program of some sort.  Apple maps is not bad at all these days and is built in to ios.  Google maps for ios is also excellent.  Personally I use Waze.

You open the app, search for destination and then there is usually a button that comes up with a car on it or "navigate here" or similar.  You click that and it assumes your start point is your current location.  Et voila!  As long as you have it safely displayed (not on windscreen for example) you can use any of those three (and there are many others) for turn-by-turn directions.  You can also edit your journey to have a different starting point, you can schedule journeys (including calendar integration for most apps) and can pick car, walking, bike, public transport etc.  

All will allow an extra stop but there are more limits to that depending on the app.  Google maps on line will allow you to plot a journey with I think 5 stops which you can then send to your phone, in the app you can only do one.  Apple maps at the moment will only show you places of interest like restaurants along your route and then you can select one to navigate to without losing final destination.  Waze allows for one additional stop.  For waze, add your final destination, then your intermediate stop.

You can also add "favourites" to all of these programs, so home/work and then eg holiday home etc.  can then just click that rather than have to remember a postcode in the Peak District or whatever!

And finally a shout out for what3words.  Brilliant concept, lets you find and then navigate to any 3m sq spot on the PLANET and integrates with all three apps I mention above (plus others).  Used by all emergency services in Sussex to find people.  Have seen a heli rescue in the middle of nowhere where W3W was used to pinpoint casualty position!

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Gillian Snoxall

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Jul 5, 2022, 4:44:56 AM7/5/22
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Russell, that is a wonderfully helpful email! I can’t thank you enough.

I have learned so much through just your one email – not least of which is “what3words”. Amazing!

Thank you again.

Gilly

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Pat Wilson

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Jul 5, 2022, 5:55:59 AM7/5/22
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A very useful post. Can I also add that having just received my bus pass I use apple maps all the time to get directions and times of next buses. You can use options to remove train etc. 

I’m in London at the moment and it’s invaluable. It shows progress along the route as well. 

Pat

On 5 Jul 2022, at 09:44, Gillian Snoxall <gillian...@gmail.com> wrote:

Russell, that is a wonderfully helpful email! I can’t thank you enough.

andrew lancaster

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Jul 5, 2022, 6:13:10 AM7/5/22
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Another endorsement for What3Words! It enabled the RAC to find me in the back of beyond when my tyre was flattened by a pothole. Excellent. 

Sent from my iPhone

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Pat Wilson

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Jul 5, 2022, 6:28:54 AM7/5/22
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W3W is brilliant. We mapped all the memorial benches along Deal and Walmer seafront with it. 


On 5 Jul 2022, at 11:13, 'andrew lancaster' via Sussex Mac User Group <sm...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Another endorsement for What3Words! It enabled the RAC to find me in the back of beyond when my tyre was flattened by a pothole. Excellent. 

Jason Kitcat

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Jul 5, 2022, 8:37:21 AM7/5/22
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What 3 Words seems good but actually has lots of issues. Two summaries:



Sorry!

All the best, Jason 


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