Turn by turn directions Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Navigon determined to link with every app it can

by Mel Martin (Feb 10th, 2010)

Navigon continues to be very aggressive at making its navigation platform a continued top seller for the iPhone. Today, the company announced an open app interface called AppInteract, which is a simple script that embeds a link into any app to launch Navigon's MobileNavigator. At the same time, it ...

Review: On the road with the Magellan Premium Car Kit

by Mel Martin (Jan 22nd, 2010)

Magellan was nice enough to loan me a Premium Car Kit for the iPhone or iPod touch, so I put it in the car and drove around on both city streets and highways to get an idea how it worked, particularly with the excellent Magellan Road Mate software [iTunes link]. The Magellan kit is advertised to ...

CoPilot Live now offers almost complete nav app for free

by Mel Martin (Jan 20th, 2010)

ALK Technologies, the creators of CoPilot Live, have released a free version of their navigation app with some catches. The free version, called CoPilot Directions [iTunes link] has turn-by-turn navigation, trip planning and 2D maps. You can download the whole map database over Wi-Fi (not via ...

G-Map back in action with new nav app

by Mel Martin (Oct 9th, 2009)

XRoad gave us one of the first Nav apps for the iPhone. It's still for sale under the name G-Map West or East, and gives users either a Western or Eastern U.S. version. It was pretty basic when it first came out, but there have been many improvements. Now the folks at XRoad have a new app that ...

Another turn by turn app with voice for the iPhone

by Mel Martin (Jul 7th, 2009)

Many months ago I received a review copy of G-Map for the iPhone. It had its own maps and turn by turn directions, but no voice guidance, and North was always up. Apple was limiting nav apps at that time, and I had real trouble with G-Map. I couldn't load it on my iPhone. It kept locking up about ...

Cruising with the AT&T Navigator

by Mel Martin (Jul 3rd, 2009)

I love GPS. in the mid 1990s I had a Garmin unit that had no maps, just a bread crumb trail of where you were and where you'd been. I lived in England at the time, and thought I had a highly original idea to take it to the Royal Observatory at Greenwich and walk across the Meridian line and watch ...