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So far, it seems very awkward...

Two-finger slide from the right sometimes opens up a sidebar that apparently contains settings (not sure what the magic incantation is).

Zooming in works, but there's no street view, you just keep zooming waaaaay in.

No bike directions. :|

I might like the map drawing better, can't really say which is quicker on my relatively slow device, and it does work quite well. But so far I'm not impressed at all. The previous iOS 5- version was better, if less new-Google-aesthetic-y.

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It does have street view, it's just not obvious how to get to it. Hold your finger on a location. When the address appears at the bottom, tap it. More info will slide up, including a street view image. Tapping that image will take you to actual street view.

Maybe there's a better way, but I'm with you, I tried just zooming way in first.

I dislike having to wait for a network round trip for the pin to drop. Drop the pin, and do the reverse geocode simultaneously.

Access to streetview would be quicker that way.

> Two-finger slide from the right sometimes opens up a sidebar that apparently contains settings (not sure what the magic incantation is).

There's a grippie in the bottom right corner indicating the settings pull-out sidebar.

I must've missed that, thanks! It showed me this time when I launched the app, but not the first time - I accidentally triggered the settings area when trying to move around in the 3D view.

Though now I discover I can only change one setting before it automatically closes it, which also sucks. And crashed when I tried to change two anyway.

So far I'm seeing it as a decent alternative that uses a better data-set, but not much else. Definitely not "now I can finally upgrade to iOS6" material.

> No bike directions. :|

Yes, what is up with that? Android app had that for ages. I guess I am not supposed to have an iPhone if I bike.

Maybe it is a precaution since a fixie is dangerous enough, you should not also look at your phone while driving it.

Unless you want to have the phone attached to the bike, I haven't found any good mounts for my galaxy nexus, but there's plenty of mounts for iPhone. I've considered a switch just because of that.

Bluetooth headphones any use?

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