Sunday, January 18, 2009

iPhone + MobileMe tip: Using Maps with Address Book sync

If you're using MobileMe, you will know that your Address Book and Contacts are always in sync (at least, suppose to be).  From the Contacts app in iPhone, you can launch Maps by tapping the address.  


So let's say I'm meeting a friend in the city at a restaurant I've never been to before.  I'll make a contact of that restaurant in Address Book on my computer.  Once I get off the train, I'll just find that restaurant in Contacts on my iPhone, tap on the address, and Maps will be loaded.  Sometimes Google can't find it, so you'll have to do some fiddling with the address.  

I also make a group called Places, and I just put meeting points and restaurants into this group so I can easily find it.  

Now they really just need to bring out the copy and paste feature so we can paste address from web pages to Maps.

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