salutary word for Dora the Explorer and other function fans : Google Maps now , for the first time , propose Street Viewwhen you enter the service from Safari on an iOS gadget .
iOS users were long wonted to having gentle access to Google ’s Street View , thanks to the fact that it was available within the native Maps app since tardy 2008 . As you may have heard , however , the Maps app in Io 6sheds its former Google - trust ; it ’s alternatively power directly by Apple ’s own mapping data , which the company assembled from a assortment of source . Said mapping dataisn’t without its defect , and Apple has suggest thatyou keep using it moreso that you canreport problems , which Apple in turn can desexualise . And CEO Tim Cook publishedan apology for the app ’s occasional flaws and frustrations .
Cook — along withMacworld — suggested that drug user stymied by missing features ( or landmarks ) in the Maps app in iOS 6 twist to providers like Google or else . The Google Maps mobile web site works jolly well on the iPhone . But until this week , that mobile app lacked access to Street View , which shows photographs for many street addresses around the universe . Now , you simply tap the Street View icon — a blue person on a gray background — to launch Street View for the address you ’re expect at , and the web site opens a new nomadic browser app tab with the photograph you ’re after . As you ’d expect , you could purloin around the Street View with your finger , and it works in both portrayal and landscape way . Street View bet particularly good if you access iOS 6 ’s new full - screen Safari mode in landscape .
iOS 6 ’s Maps include a feature called Flyover , which offers pseudo-3D overhead view of major urban center . Apple wo n’t be able to provide a service that rivals Google ’s Street View unless it decides to send out its own fleet of cars to photograph the world ’s road .
Google Maps ’s site ismaps.google.com . The companionship has n’t yet released a standalone Maps app for iOS of its own , thoughThe New York Timesreportsthat one is in the works .
