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How to See Air Quality on Maps for iPhone & iPad

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Want to know what the air quality index is at a particular destination? The Apple Maps app on iPhone and iPad can give you this information.

Those who are concerned about air quality will find it useful to know that the Maps app on iPhone and iPad has an optional feature that allows you to see the Air Quality Index (AQI) and accompanying color code directly in the Maps app, but first you must enable the feature, and have a compatible version of iOS system software on the device. This is obviously helpful for planning trips and maps routes for groups who impacted by air quality, and offers another way to see air quality information on an iOS device.

Finding the optional Air Quality Index information in the Maps app of iOS requires iOS 12.2 or later to be installed on the iPhone or iPad, as earlier versions do not support AQI index (though they do support weather). iPhone users with earlier iOS versions can get air quality information in the Weather app on iPhone, and both iPhone and iPad users can find AQI index info from Siri, whereas iPad users with earlier iOS versions will want to use either a website or dedicated weather app for this same information. Assuming you’re on iOS 12.2 or later though, here’s how you can enable and see AQI details in Apple Maps.

How to View Air Quality Index in Maps on iPhone or iPad

  1. Open the “Settings” app on the iPhone or iPad
  2. Go to “Maps”
  3. Find the setting for ‘Air Quality Index’ and toggle that switch to the ON position
  4. Exit Settings
  5. Launch the Maps application in iOS
  6. Search for a location or destination in Maps as usual
  7. Note the ‘AQI’ score in the corner of Maps app as you search and use the Maps app on iPhone or iPad

    8. How to see Air Quality Index in Maps for iPhone or iPad

You’ll also notice the weather is shown in Maps directly above the AQI index, offering further information about the destinations and locations you’re viewing in the Maps app of iOS. If you don’t see the weather in Apple Maps, then you may have it turned off in the Maps Settings, directly above the Air Quality Index information.

Any Air Quality Index rating between 0-50 is considered to be ‘Good’, while anything over 50 is of declining quality, over 100 to be considered ‘unhealthy for sensitive groups’, with increasing severity of air quality health concerns from numbers beyond that. You can refer to the below chart from AirNow.gov for reference of air quality index, color codes, and the health concerns associated with them:

AQI Index information from AirNow website

While AQI information may be irrelevant to some iPhone and iPad users, others will find it to be a very helpful feature, especially if you or someone else has trouble with particulate matter, air pollutants, or even allergies, asthma, COPD, or the myriad other conditions where the quality of air matters tremendously.

Source: OSX Daily

April 13, 2019 0 comment
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How to Use Google Maps with CarPlay

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Some CarPlay users may prefer to use Google Maps on CarPlay, instead of Apple Maps. Using Google Maps on CarPlay is simple, and you can easily replace the maps icon on a CarPlay unit with Google Maps (or even Waze) if desired. We’ll show you how to add Google Maps to CarPlay and also how to replace Apple Maps with Google Maps if it’s your preferred mapping, navigation, and directions tool.


Requirements to use Google Maps on CarPlay are fairly straight forward: the iPhone must be running iOS 12 or later, the iPhone must have a new version of Google Maps (update the app if you aren’t sure or download it from App Store), and you must have a CarPlay car or CarPlay receiver. Beyond that, you simply need to have CarPlay setup with iPhone, and you’re ready to go.

How to Use Google Maps on CarPlay

  1. Bring the iPhone into the car with CarPlay if you haven’t done so already and make sure they’re working as expected
  2. Open the “Settings” app on iPhone
  3. Go to “General” and then choose “CarPlay”
  4. Select the car which has CarPlay
  5. Locate Google Maps on the screen, and then tap and hold on the Google Maps icon to drag it to the primary CarPlay Home screen for easy access
  6. Optionally: to replace Apple Maps with Google Maps on CarPlay, move the Apple Maps icon to elsewhere and make the Google Maps icon more prominent
  7. Exit out of CarPlay settings on iPhone
  8. Use CarPlay in the vehicle as usual

Now you simply launch Google Maps on CarPlay as you would any other CarPlay app, and you’re using Google Maps with CarPlay.

The Google Maps icon

Launching Google Maps will open it immediately on CarPlay as the navigation app, as this nice image from Google demonstrates:

Using Google Maps on CarPlay

Note that it’s not currently possible to completely replace Apple Maps with Google Maps for default behavior or things like Siri navigation requests, but it’s possible that will change down the road.

How to Add the Google Maps App to CarPlay

Assuming Google Maps is installed on the iPhone and the iPhone is setup with CarPlay, then Google Maps should be available right away with CarPlay, but sometimes it’s not or was removed. If you don’t see Google Maps available on CarPlay, and you’re sure you’re using iOS 12 or later with a new version of Google Maps, you can add the Google Maps app directly to CarPlay by doing the following:

  1. Open “Settings” the iPhone
  2. Choose “General” and then tap “CarPlay” and then tap your cars name
  3. Locate the Google Maps app in the list, and then tap the “+” plus button to add it to CarPlay

If you’re not sure how to setup and use CarPlay, you can follow these instructions to get that configured. Not all cars support CarPlay by default, and some require a third party CarPlay compatible stereo to be installed to gain the feature.

Many of the general Google Maps tips for driving will work on CarPlay whether for voice navigation or otherwise, but obviously those that are specific to a phone or desktop app will be different or unavailable.

Can I replace Google Maps as CarPlay default for Siri instead of Apple Maps?

Whether you have Google Maps on the iPhone with CarPlay or not, Siri will continue to use Apple Maps as the default if you summon for Siri and ask for directions or navigation somewhere. Thus if you want to use Google Maps as the default, you must open it manually on CarPlay rather than by asking for directions from Siri.

Basically this means if you want to replace Apple Maps with Google Maps on CarPlay, you have to move Google Maps to be more prominent while putting Apple Maps somewhere less prominent, then remember to launch Google Maps instead. This may change down the road, but currently that’s the way CarPlay and Maps work together.

Do you know of any other interesting tips, tricks, or solutions for getting Google Maps working well with CarPlay? Share with us in the comments below!

Source: OSX Daily

March 16, 2019 0 comment
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How to Disable “Shake to Send Feedback” in Google Maps for iPhone and iPad

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Have you ever been using Google Maps on iPhone or iPad and noticed a little pop-up alert message stating “Shake to send feedback – You shook your device! Your feedback suggestions help us improve Google Maps.” with options to report data problems, send feedback, or to dismiss the alert. Sometimes Google Maps users on iPhone or iPad can accidentally trigger the ‘Shake to send feedback’ feature, or they may unintentionally trigger that alert rather than the typical ‘Shake to Undo’ feature on iPhone and iPad.

If you don’t want to see the ‘Shake to send feedback’ alert come up in Google Maps for iOS, this article will show you how to turn that off.

How to Disable ‘Shake to Send Feedback’ in Google Maps for iOS

  1. Open the Google Maps app, then tap on the three lines button in the upper left corner

    2. How to disable Shake to Send Feedback in iOS

  2. Now tap on the Gear icon to access Settings in Google Maps

    3. How to disable Shake to Send Feedback in iOS

  3. Locate the switch for “Shake to send feedback” and turn that to the OFF position to disable this feature in Google Maps for iOS

    4. How to disable Shake to Send Feedback in iOS

Once the feature is off, shaking the iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch will no longer trigger the ‘Shake to Send Feedback’ alert message on the screen.

If you disable the “Shake to send feedback” option in Google Maps instead shaking the device will result in triggering the Shake to Undo and Redo in iOS feature, unless of course you or someone else have disabled Shake to Undo in iOS on the iPhone or iPad.

Whether or not you want to turn this off or leave it on likely depends on how you use Google Maps, and how often you intentionally or unintentionally bring up the feedback dialog message. For the most part it should not trigger accidentally, though if you are using an iPhone or iPad on an extraordinarily bumpy road or terrain (like heavy unplowed snow, a poorly maintained winter road with bumpy ice ruts, an unpaved forest road, or some 4×4 trail), then you may see the alert message coming up on the Google Maps app in iOS when it’s unexpected to – those situations in particularly will likely benefit from turning off the feature if they find it to be frustrating.

But if you’re driving around and you see this on Google Maps for iOS:

Shake to Send Feedback in Google Maps for iOS

And you don’t want to see that again, now you know how to turn it off!

Source: OSX Daily

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How to Use Maps in Globe View on Mac

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Have you ever wanted a little digital globe you could interact with, spinning the Earth around to see the continents, oceans, and features of our planet? If so, you’ll be happy to discover that the Maps app on the Mac has a hidden globe view that allows you to interact with and spin planet Earth as a virtual globe.

The hidden globe view in Maps can be a great feature for obvious geography reasons, whether it’s for informational, exploration, educational uses, just having a little fun, or any other reason you’d like to reference a globe. Even more interesting is that Maps Globe view uses satellite data to show the Earth surface relative to the sun, making both day time and night time views visible depending on the time of day. The whole Globe view is quite interesting and fun to play with.

Read on to learn how to access Globe view in the Maps application for Mac.

How to Access Globe View on Maps for Mac

Ready to switch the Maps app into Globe view? Here’s how you can do that:

  1. Open the “Maps” application on the Mac

    2. Maps icon on Mac

  2. Choose “Satellite” view by clicking the button in the upper right corner

    3. How to access Globe view on Maps for Mac

  3. Now zoom out in Maps view, you can zoom out by clicking the minus “[-]” button in the bottom right corner of Maps app or by using a pinch gesture on a tracking surface

    4. How to access Globe view on Maps for Mac

  4. Keep zooming out until you see Maps has entered into Globe view

    5. How to access Globe view on Maps for Mac

  5. Interact with the Maps app as usual, you can spin the globe, rotate it around in just about any orientation with a click and drag, zoom in and out, etc

You can zoom in and out of globe view quite fast with the pinch and spread gestures on a tracking surface.

One of the more compelling aspects of Globe view in Maps is that it uses updated satellite imagery based on time of day and the Earth position relative to the sun, so you can see where night and day fall on the globe.

Maps Globe view showing where night and day meet

The daytime view is brightly lit as you’d expect and makes identifying continents, oceans, and land features pretty easy. The night time view of the world is quite fascinating as well because it uses detailed satellite imagery to show light pollution on the surface of Earth, making it easy to locate cities, developments, and the human behavior on the planet, visible much like the glowing activity of humans is from the International Space Station, NASA imagery, or some other satellite or space craft (maybe this trick could be extra helpful to any aliens out there floating around in space looking down at Earth but haven’t figured out quite where to land yet).

Maps Globe view showing night time on part of Globe view

And yes if you’re an iOS user and you were wondering, the Maps app on iPhone and iPad also has globe view that is accessible in basically the same way as this, hidden behind Satellite view and requiring lots of zooming out to see.

Exiting out of Globe view is just a matter of either choosing the “Map” mode of Maps app, or zooming into any surface on the Earth close enough so that the globe is no longer visible.

Some Maps features work in Globe view while others don’t, for example you can drop pins and share a location while in Globe view, but features like scale indicators and saving Maps as a PDF don’t entirely work while in Globe view. You can also use “Show Labels” to toggle off or on the labeling of cities and continents.

Pretty cool, huh? If you have any other interesting tips, tricks, or insight about the Maps app or the hidden Globe view, share with us in the comments! Or check out other Maps tips for both the Mac and iOS platforms.

Source: OSX Daily

September 10, 2018 0 comment
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How to Look Inside Airports with Apple Maps on iPhone and iPad to Plan Ahead When Traveling

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Airports can be hectic, and just about every traveler knows the stress of visiting an airport they have never been to before and trying to quickly navigate the maze of terminals to find their gate so that they can board a plane on time. A great trick that can ease the stress of travel and help you plan your travels better is to use Apple Maps on an iPhone, iPad, or Mac, to virtually navigate within an airport beforehand.

With Apple Maps airport exploration mode, you can explore inside airports to find terminals, boarding gates, baggage claims, check-in counters, security checkpoints, bathrooms and toilets, restaurants, shops, and more. This makes travel planning a bit easier and takes some of the stress out, particularly if you’re visiting a huge airport, or one you’re just unfamiliar with.


All you need is an iPhone or iPad to get started. The rest is super easy.

How to Use “Look Inside” Airport on Apple Maps

  1. Open the “Maps” app on the iPhone or iPad, be sure the map setting is set to map mode and not satellite view
  2. In the “Search” section, type in the Airport you want to browse and look in (you can also use airport codes, like “LAX”)
  3. Zoom in a bit and locate the terminal you want to investigate, then tap on the “Look Inside” text

    4. Tap on Look Inside airport to navigate airport in Apple Maps

  4. Now zoom in further or navigate around the airport map, tapping on a Terminal to view even more information, including check-ins, gates, security, bag claims, food, drinks, shops, restrooms / toilets, and more

    5. Looking inside an airport with Apple Maps airport explore mode

In the example screenshots here, we’re using an iPad to browse Los Angeles International Airport (LAX), which is a large, busy, and particularly sprawling and complex airport to navigate around with its myriad shuttles, many terminals, parking garages, as well as many food and shopping options.

Browse around in airports with Apple Maps

You can use this feature anytime from an iPhone or iPad as long as you have internet access on the device, but it’s probably best to browse around an airport before you’re actually in it, or when you’re in it. Of course you could also use in-flight wi-fi service to browse through a destination airport before you land, which would certainly make the process of landing a bit easier too. If you already know where to go before you land, you’ll be navigating the airport like a seasoned traveler!

If you’re traveling with a companion but on different flights, or you’re looking to meet-up with someone in an airport, a great way to use this feature is to use this in combination with either Mark & Share Location in Maps for iOS or “Share Current Location” in Messages on iPhone, to share where you are, or where you want to meet up, with your travel partner, so that you can meet up with each other in the airport for a quick bite to eat, or to pair up and find your baggage together. That’s particularly great if you’re flying to the same destination as someone else but you’re on different flights.

Oh and as a bonus tip, don’t forget that you can also see the weather reports of locations in Apple Maps too (it’s in the corner of the Maps screen), so if you’re not quite sure what the weather will be upon arrival or departure, you can check that as well.

Do note that not all airports are supported by this Apple Maps feature, yet anyway, but most major international airport hubs, busy US airports, and international airports are supported and can be browsed through this way. Considering that it’s usually the biggest and most busy airports that are the most complex, this makes some degree of sense, but don’t necessarily expect a tiny airport in a rural location to be included in the Look Inside feature of Apple Maps, so if you’re flying into some tiny remote destination you’ll have to just figure that one out on your own.

Happy travels!

Source: OSX Daily

May 26, 2018 0 comment
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How to Enable Voice Navigation in Maps on iPhone

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By default, the Maps app for iPhone will use voice navigation when giving directions. Voice navigation and talking directions is also the standard setting for Google Maps on iPhone too. But sometimes users can accidentally toggle the voice navigation settings off when they didn’t intend to, or forget to turn the voice navigation settings back on if they were disabled at some point.

Not to worry, if you want spoken directions from your mapping applications then this article will show you how to enable (or re-enable) voice navigation directions for both the Apple Maps and Google Maps apps on iPhone.

Wait: Turn Up iPhone volume!

Before anything else, be sure you turn up the iPhone volume on your actual iPhone. Do this by pressing the physical Volume up button on the side of the iPhone repeatedly until the volume is set at maximum level as shown by the on-screen volume indicator.

It’s fairly easy to inadvertently crank the volume all the way down using the physical buttons, and obviously if the device volume is off or down then the voice navigation will not be heard. So before anything else, just make sure the iPhone volume is up all the way and is working as expected.

You’ll also want to make sure the iPhone does not have headphones or anything using the audio port plugged in. Another possibility is that the iPhone is stuck in Headphones mode, although that is fairly rare to occur, and if that happens then all audio won’t come through the normal iPhone speaker in general rather than just in the Maps applications.

Now that you’re assured the iPhone has volume turned up all the way, you can turn to the specific Apple Maps and Google Maps apps to make sure audio is enabled in each of those too.

How to Enable Voice Navigation in Apple Maps on iPhone

If voice navigation and speaking directions are not working with the Apple Maps app on the iPhone, and you already turned the physical volume up all the way, then you may find the voice navigation settings have been turned off or disabled. Here is how you can easily re-enable the voice navigation settings in Apple Maps:

  1. Open the “Settings” app on the iPhone and go to “Maps” settings
  2. Go to the “Driving & Navigation” settings
  3. Look for the “Navigation Voice Volume” setting and choose ‘Loud Volume’, ‘Normal Volume’, or ‘Low Volume’ to re-enable voice navigation in Apple Maps for iOS

    4. Enable voice navigation in Maps for iPhone

  4. Exit out of Settings and get directions from Apple Maps as usual

The key thing with Apple Maps voice navigation settings is to make sure you don’t have “No Voice” set otherwise no matter how loud the volume is on your iPhone, you won’t have voice navigation available.

You can also enable or re-enable voice navigation for directions in Apple Maps directly from the Apple Maps application by swiping up from the bottom of the directions screen and choosing “Audio Settings”

These settings should apply through any directions given by the Apple Maps application, whether you are initiating them through the Apple Maps app directly or even if you’re starting by asking Siri to use voice navigation and turn-by-turn directions on the iPhone.

How to Enable Voice Navigation in Google Maps for iPhone

Google Maps voice navigation settings can be toggled off or on directly within the Google Maps app while giving directions. The settings toggle makes it kind of easy to accidentally turn off or on the voice navigation for directions, so just be sure you have the setting properly enabled if you want to hear voice directions. As before, be sure you turn up the iPhone volume all the way first.

  1. Open Google Maps on iPhone and start directions to any location as usual
  2. Look in the upper-right corner of the Google Maps app for the little speaker icon and tap on that

    3. The voice navigation button in Google Maps for iPhone

  3. Make sure the speaker option is enabled in Google Maps on iPhone

    4. Enable Voice Navigation in Google Maps on iPhone

It’s pretty easy to mute and un-mute voice directions in Google Maps, which is nice if you’re trying to quietly get directions somewhere or you want to temporarily silence spoken navigation to a destination. But that can also mean it’s easy to accidentally toggle, since the audio navigation setting is just on the screen all the time. So just toggle the speaker button in Google Maps for iPhone and you’ll be able to get audio back again.

That should be it, whether you’re using Google Maps or Apple Maps for directions, you now know how to enable or re-enable voice navigation in each app on your iPhone.

Did this help you to get voice navigation and spoken directions working on your iPhone? Do you have another solution or trick for troubleshooting voice navigation not working on iPhone maps apps? Share your comments and experiences below!

Source: OSX Daily

March 23, 2018 0 comment
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How to Enable or Disable “Avoid Highways” in Maps for iPhone

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The iOS Maps app has quite a few tricks up its sleeve, including a settings toggle that allows you to get directions to and from destinations while avoiding highways and freeways. This is particularly helpful for iPhone users that rely on the Maps app for directions and getting around, but it works on iPad as well.


Getting Maps directions that avoid highways may be helpful for many reasons; maybe you don’t like driving on highways, maybe you’re trying to avoid a predictable traffic jam, or maybe you just want to use side roads and backroads. Whatever the reason, if you’d like to enable the Maps feature to avoid highways it’s easy to turn on, and likewise if you enabled the avoid highways feature at some point in time and now want to disable it, it’s equally as easy to turn the feature off again.

The “avoid highways” Maps toggle requires a modern version of iOS, if you’re on an ancient version of system software you would need to update to have such a feature.

How to Turn On or Off “Avoid Highways” in Maps for iOS

The “Avoid Highways” capability is available along with a separate “Avoid Tolls” option in Maps for iOS, you can toggle each on or off individually on any iPhone or iPad:

  1. Open the “Settings” app on your iPhone or iPad

    2. Settings icon

  2. Go to “Maps” and then tap on “Driving & Navigation”

    3. Open the Navigation settings in iOS

  3. Look for the “Avoid” section and toggle the switch next to “Highways”
  • If the “Highways” switch is enabled then Maps will avoid highways whenever possible
  • If the “Highways” switch is disabled (default) then Maps will use highways as normal

Avoid highways in iOS Maps Settings

  • Exit Settings and return to Maps for your changes to take effect on the next set of directions

    • You can confirm the change has been made by getting Maps directions to some location that requires the usage of a highway.

    The change also carries through to turn-by-turn voice navigation directions initiated by Siri on the iPhone.

    Debatably, it might be more useful to have the settings toggle for avoiding highways (and tolls) directly within the Maps app, but for now you must be go the Settings app to toggle the features off or on as you see fit.

    iOS setting for Maps to avoid highways

    The Maps app for iOS has a lot of interesting features, you can easily add stops for food and gas on a road trip, see weather directly in the Maps app for destinations, show GPS coordinates for locations, input GPS coordinates for locations, mark and share specific locations, get directions via transit, and so much more.

    It’s worth pointing out that some users may be tempted to use the “Avoid Highways” feature for avoiding traffic routine jams, but don’t expect it perform quite a good as something like Waze or another app which is dedicated specifically for that purpose. So while it may not avoid traffic, it will avoid highways, whereas if you want to avoid both (or just traffic) you may be better off trying an app like Waze for iPhone for such a purpose.

    Happy travels! And if you have any particular experience with the “avoid highways” feature in iOS Maps, share them in the comments below.

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    March 5, 2018 0 comment
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    How to Show a Map of All Geotagged Photos on Mac

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    Have you ever wished you could view all of your geotagged pictures on a map? With the Mac Photos app, you can do exactly that by accessing a handy map of all images containing geotagging and GPS data, each displayed on a nice navigable map, right within the Photos app of Mac OS.

    For some quick background, if an image is geotagged it will have embedded GPS metadata stored with the picture file to maintain a record of exactly where a photo was taken (or at least where an image was assigned a location for).

    While many privacy advocates don’t like geotagged pictures – particularly if the images are posted to the internet, social networks, social media, or any other broad service for the world to see – some users may find having precise location data within images to be useful.

    This only works if you have pictures within the Mac Photos app that are geotagged with GPS data. If you removed location data from Photos on the Mac, otherwise routinely bulk strip GPS and metadata out of images for privacy reasons or compression purposes, or turned off geotagging and camera GPS on iPhone, you may not have geotagged image data to work with and thus wouldn’t have anything showing up in the Photos app.

    How to See Map of All Geotagged Pictures in Photos for Mac

    1. Open the Photos app on the Mac
    2. From the Photos sidebar, choose “Places” to load the geotagged photo map

    Show Geotagged pictures on the Mac Photos app

    Note if the sidebar isn’t visible by default, you can go to the View menu to reveal the sidebar as expected.

    The “Places” section of the Photos app will always show GPS tagged images that are within the Photos app of Mac OS, but there are other ways to see geotagged images as well.

    You can zoom in and out on the GPS tagged photo map, and you can set the map to be a satellite view too if you’d like. The map with the geotagged images is the same type of maps you encounter with the Apple Maps app on Mac and iOS.

    Showing Geotagged images on a map in Mac OS

    Show Nearby Photos with Geotagging

    You can also show nearby geotagged photos that may relate to an existing geotagged image by having a nearby location:

    1. From Photos on the Mac, open a geotagged picture you want to find other nearby photos for
    2. Scroll down to reveal the “Places” section and then click on the “Show Nearby Photos” option

    Show nearby geotagged photos on a map

    You can also view EXIF data directly from Photos app, which will also show the geotagging information if relevant.

    This can also offer a simple way to see a bunch of images that have GPS data if you want to remove the location data from the picture directly within the Photos app on the Mac, or if you want to know what image files should be passed through a Mac app like ImageOptim to strip the image files of EXIF metadata and GPS coordinates.

    So there you have it, now you can quickly see all the geotagged pictures you have played out on a map for you within the Photos app. And if you have other pictures elsewhere you wish to check this for, you’d want to import those image files into Photos app, or copy the pictures from an iPhone or camera to Photos app on Mac first. Just remember that if you do have GPS and geotagging data stored in pictures and you choose to share those pictures with someone else or post them online, technically anyone can retrieve the metadata and GPS coordinates of where the picture was taken.

    Source: OSX Daily

    February 4, 2018 0 comment
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    How to Get Weather Info for Locations from Maps on iPhone

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    Did you know you can get the weather in the Maps app of iOS? Obviously the Weather app on iPhone will tell you the temperature and forecast of locations, and with a little exploration you can also view detailed weather info too. That’s great, but it’s in the Weather app. What if you’re driving or exploring the in Maps application in iOS, and want to get the weather report of your destination or of a specific location, directly from the Maps app on iPhone?

    The latest versions of Apple Maps for iOS include a little weather report widget that will give you the temperature and weather info of a particular location in Maps. Going further, if you have an iPhone with 3D Touch, then you can use a little 3D Touch trick to get a weather forecast directly from the Maps app in iOS and even add that destination to your Weather app too.

    How to View the Weather in Maps for iOS on iPhone

    1. Open the Maps app on the iPhone and enter any location as usual
    2. Once the location has loaded in Maps app, look in the lower right corner of the Maps app for a little tiny weather widget – this will show you the temperature and a weather icon for that destination

      3. See the weather in Maps on iPhone

    3. Bonus trick for 3D Touch equipped iPhone models: now 3D Touch on that weather icon to reveal a forecast and expanded weather info

    This works with any location that Maps or Weather can gather weather data for, even seemingly in the middle of nowhere it usually will pull weather data from a nearby weather station, so give it a try with cities, towns, or even rural spots that are off the beaten path.

    3D Touch Maps Weather Tricks

    If you soft press with 3D Touch, you will see a forecast and more detailed weather information.

    Get weather details Maps 3D Touch trick

    If you firm press with 3D Touch, the Maps app will redirect that location to the Weather app and ask if you’d like to add it to the Weather app, or just view that location in Weather app for more specific weather information like wind speed, humidity, heat index, chance of rain, and extended forecasts.

    Add a location to Weather app from Maps app

    Of course if you don’t have 3D Touch, don’t feel too left out, you will still see the weather widget in the corner of the Maps app.

    If you don’t see the weather details in the corner of Maps app when browsing destinations and locations, you may have an older version of iOS and need to update your system software to gain this ability in the Maps app for iPhone.

    Remember, you an also retrieve weather information from Spotlight in iOS or even get weather info from Siri too, from either iPhone or iPad.

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    Access Maps from the Command Line Rendered in ASCII with Mapscii

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    Have you ever wished you could access a mapping application from the command line? Now you can with Mapscii, which is sort of like Google Maps or Apple Maps but for the Terminal, with all of the mapping data rendered in ASCII text and characters.

    MapSCII uses OpenStreetMap data and the entire Earth can be navigated through the command line seamlessly rendered in ASCII. Beyond just being interesting and a kind of fun proof of concept to access mapping data from the command line in a console map rendered in ASCII, MapSCII is also Braille compatible which is obviously valuable for many users in and of itself (and certainly more useful than watching Star Wars in ASCII from the Terminal).

    OK enough talk, you probably want to try this out yourself (well, if you’re a geek like me anyway). This is demonstrated on a Mac with Terminal app but because you’re telnetting into a remote server you can also access MapSCII from any other terminal application, whether it’s on Mac OS X, Linux, unix, or Windows with an app like PuTTY or the Windows 10 linux bash shell.

    Accessing Maps from the Terminal with MapSCII

    1. Open the Terminal application, found in /Applications/Utilities/, and type the following command syntax:

      2. telnet mapscii.me

    2. Hit Return and once you are connected to the remote MapSCII server you are ready to browse and enjoy the ASCII maps

    Ascii Maps at the command line with Mapscii

    MapSCII can be navigated by the keyboard or mouse, keyboard navigation is easy with the following keys:

    • Use arrow keys to navigate around the map: Up, down, left right
    • A zooms in to the maps
    • Z zooms out of the maps
    • C toggles ASCII mode off/on

    You can also click and hold and drag on the map with your mouse cursor.

    Ascii maps command line

    Whether or not you find this fun, interesting, geeky, useful or useless, is up to you. Most users will be perfectly happy using Google Maps on the web or iPhone, or the Apple Maps app on their Mac, iPhone, or iPad, but even then it’s still fun to be able to access a full fledged mapping application from the command line.

    MapSCII is an ASCII maps app for the command line

    Let’s see if embedding this works:

    The MapSCII project is open source and you can also install it locally if you’d like, check the project out on GitHub here.

    If you liked this you’ll almost enjoy our other command line posts and topics, so take a look.

    Source: OSX Daily

    June 23, 2017 0 comment
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