Just wondering, why do people prefer Apple Maps to Google? I used Apple maps when it first came out and there where an embarrassingly high number of errors on places near me.
You may be right, but I use it every day and every time I see it irks me. Iād like to think Iād get over it, but ugly is ugly. Letās see.
As for Hugoās āreasoningā, I donāt think you follow what I was proposing.
Do you mean something akin to this? I admit, Iām sure the designers at Monzo could produce something a little better than my attempt
Regarding the new pulse graph, I like being able to see more information as I scroll back in my feed. But it is rather frustrating that sometimes you can see your current balance and sometimes you canāt (like above). Would rather be able to see this at all times
Thanks a lot for sharing your feelings. Itās really appreciated.
All I can do for now is to ask you to bear with us, it will all make a bit more of sense (hopefully )
I was gonna suggest this very same thing!!!
Hate this new look
What do you mean by ālookā, this is not a new look but a different set of functionalities, right?
I personally donāt immediately like the change. However I trust that these guys know what they are doing. There are going to have to be some major changes to the app when current accounts are here so I imagine (hope) that this change is the start of some very cool features that are only really going to make sense when Monzo is operasting a full current account.
What I would say is we havenāt had any major āsneak peeksā in a while. There must be loads you could show us to do with how the app is going to run when in current account mode. This might help people who donāt like the changes understand the rational behind them?
Ashley
Thatās a great idea. Weāll share a few things over the week
Thanks!
Sorry dude I meant functionality, the do da at the top, just not keen on it.
I was actually going to suggest @nathanvoller did below
Iām glad Iām not alone with the dislike of the new look! Youāve set the standards too high for yourselves, Monzo Itās hard to accept āOKā when weāve had beautiful!
I donāt always find the graph being there all the time useful, I would personally like to see more screen given to my payment details so maybe an option to turn the graph off / hide it? Best of both worlds then.
It was indeed so bad when it launched that the company itself put an apology out. Since then though itās become my only map app. Integrated transit directions which I find much easier to follow than Googleās, far more pleasant on the eye, and excellent integration with the iOS calendar app when suggesting the next place I need to be and how long it will take to get there.
Obviously Googleās maps app can do integration with their calendar app but I wish to avoid having a Google account.
In respect of the Monzo app, I would find it much nicer to see Appleās cartography. Just my preference
But instead of supporting two separate maps across two different OS it is better for Monzo to have one single unified database and one map program across both
Oh Iām sure thereās sound technical reasons for the decision, itās just the announcement was made without any explanation, thatās all. Itās a shame, but not the end of the world.
I do hope though that no location information is collected by Google as a result of using their mapping product.
Hereās the explanation for the change -
Thanks Alexs. Iām interested in your comment that [quote=āalexs, post:55, topic:8120ā]
Google is far and away the best source of accurate data we can get for merchants, by an order of magnitude.
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I may have misunderstood your technical explanation of what is actually happening when you pull in mapping data from Google.
I read your post as: the app draws the pin onto a ācopyā of a map obtained from Googleās servers, cached locally onto the device. In other words, Google doesnāt get to āseeā that I just visited a particular merchant.
If this is the case, what is the relevance of Googleās superior merchant database, if all thatās happening is a pin is being dropped onto a map based on my latitude and longitude, and the merchant info comes from the transaction detail rather than Google?
I have likely not understood your post correctly, so any clarification would be welcome
(It might sound overboard, but I go out of my way to avoid using Googleās products due to a deep distrust of the company, so this issue is quite important for me)
I guess then I remain confused as to why there was a need to switch to Google Maps? Alexsā comment suggests that one of the benefits is their more complete merchant dataā¦ but if all thatās required is dropping a pin onto a map, what is the value of Googleās merchant data in this process?
Having picked up the userās location, Monzo still needs to match that with the correct merchant.
Edit - Iāve double checked that this is correct with Tristan.
I guess then I remain confused as to why there was a need to switch to Google Maps?
To use Google Places data, we need to show it on a Google Map