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[sacha]

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.

[JohnnyW]

You may be right, but I use it every day and every time I see it irks me. I’d like to think I’d get over it, but ugly is ugly. Let’s see.

As for Hugo’s “reasoning”, I don’t think you follow what I was proposing.

[nathanvoller]

Do you mean something akin to this? I admit, I’m 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 can’t (like above). Would rather be able to see this at all times

[hugo (Hugo Cornejo)]

@JohnnyW

This is the first change I’ve seen Monzo make that genuinely felt like a step backwards. I’ve been waiting for an update to revert it, but as it doesn’t seem to be coming, I thought I’d register my feelings on the issue.

Thanks a lot for sharing your feelings. It’s 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 )

[anon72173902]

I was gonna suggest this very same thing!!!

Hate this new look

[hugo (Hugo Cornejo)]

@anon72173902

Hate this new look

What do you mean by “look”, this is not a new look but a different set of functionalities, right?

[anon69693571]

I personally don’t 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 haven’t had any major ‘sneak peeks’ 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 don’t like the changes understand the rational behind them?
Ashley

[hugo (Hugo Cornejo)]

@anon69693571

This might help people who don’t like the changes understand the rational behind them?

That’s a great idea. We’ll share a few things over the week

Thanks!

[anon72173902]

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

[JohnnyW]

I’m glad I’m not alone with the dislike of the new look! You’ve set the standards too high for yourselves, Monzo It’s hard to accept “OK” when we’ve had beautiful!

[Zenothemis]

I don’t 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.

[anon17194903]

It was indeed so bad when it launched that the company itself put an apology out. Since then though it’s become my only map app. Integrated transit directions which I find much easier to follow than Google’s, 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 Google’s 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 Apple’s cartography. Just my preference

[anon44204028]

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

[anon17194903]

Oh I’m sure there’s sound technical reasons for the decision, it’s just the announcement was made without any explanation, that’s all. It’s 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.

[alexs (Alex Sherwood)]

@anon17194903

it’s just the announcement was made without any explanation, that’s all

Here’s the explanation for the change -

Maps

A lot of great discussion in here as always – I love you folks. Will try and answer as many of the raised points as possible, pull me up if I missed any A couple of people mentioned privacy. This is something I care about personally, and that we care about a great deal as a company: Just to be clear about this: pins are drawn onto the Google Map locally on the device. Data about merchants is gathered on the server-side from Google Places, but that request is not tied to a specific use…

[anon17194903]

Thanks Alexs. I’m interested in your comment that [quote=“alexs, post:55, topic:8120”]
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 ‘copy’ of a map obtained from Google’s servers, cached locally onto the device. In other words, Google doesn’t get to ‘see’ that I just visited a particular merchant.

If this is the case, what is the relevance of Google’s superior merchant database, if all that’s 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 Google’s products due to a deep distrust of the company, so this issue is quite important for me)

[tomsr]

Hey - yes @james clarified this for other concerned users.

@anon8997347

Just to be clear about this: pins are drawn onto the Google Map locally on the device. Data about merchants is gathered on the server-side from Google Places, but that request is not tied to a specific user.

[anon17194903]

I guess then I remain confused as to why there was a need to switch to Google Maps? Alexs’ comment suggests that one of the benefits is their more complete merchant data… but if all that’s required is dropping a pin onto a map, what is the value of Google’s merchant data in this process?

[alexs (Alex Sherwood)]

@anon17194903

if all that’s required is dropping a pin onto a map, what is the value of Google’s merchant data in this process?

Having picked up the user’s location, Monzo still needs to match that with the correct merchant.

Edit - I’ve double checked that this is correct with Tristan.

[anon50039658]

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