[robg adds: Normally we don't run news items, but Google Maps have proven very popular, and Safari is used by something like 80% of all the readers here, so I figured it was worth sharing.]
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Just a quick note from the Google Blog: Google Maps now supports Safari and Opera. Kudos to the Google team to getting it to work cross-browser so quickly!
[robg adds: Normally we don't run news items, but Google Maps have proven very popular, and Safari is used by something like 80% of all the readers here, so I figured it was worth sharing.]
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Google Maps now supports Safari
No, it doesn't, at least not in OS 10.3.8, as of 7:18 AM MST.
Works for me
Same set-up as parent post, 9:20 AM EST
Works for me
Just got some driving directions using it; no problems in Safari. However, I wonder which is better at giving the best route, MapQuest or Google. MapQuest got me there with 90 miles, Google something like 120.
Works for me, but not all the time
Google maps is definitely flaky, so do more than the usual reality checks. In one address I looked up there, it obstinately gave me a similar sounding address in a nearby town ("Xyz Road" instead of "Xyz Woods Drive"). Yahoo had no trouble with it.
Google Maps now supports Safari
Worked for Me too (OSX 10.3.) on a 2.0DP G5, but it was EXTREMELY choppy and didnt have the fluid redraw or point-to-point "Directions" connection either: took way too long to redraw.
Google Maps now supports Safari
Seems to work pretty well for me in Safari [X 10.3.8]. I noticed that the startup screen looks different between Firefox 1.01 and Safari, but the graphics look just great.
Google Maps now supports Safari
Great! So much faster and more usable than mapquest and yahoo-maps!
Modifying Applescripts
If you want to make the scripts from previous days (like these) work in Safari instead of Firefox (or whatev), replace:
with:
Hurray! I love Google Maps!
Modifying Applescripts
Now that google maps work with Safari there is no need to specify a particular web browser. The call should be genericized to bring up your default web browser.
Modifying Applescripts
I was able to get it to work using
Modifying Applescripts
Yeah. Seems openURL seems is not compiling for Safari or anything other than Firefox....
By the way, the following part
tell application "System Events" open location googleMaps & addressURL activate end tellworks as well.
Modifying Applescripts
i had to use
Modifying Applescripts
Thank you for posting this! I was trying to change the script myself, but I didn't have the patience to figure out why it wouldn't compile by just replacing "firefox" with "safari".
Modifying Applescripts for Tiger
Any plans to update your Applescript for Google maps from the address book for Tiger ?
Next obvious question-Addressbook.app integration
in addressbook.app, the 'map' function uses mapquest. anyone figured out how to change it to maps.google?
Dragging the map doesn't work :-(
Google Maps in Safari is missing the feature I like most. In FireFox I can click, hold, and drag the map around. In Safari I have to use the little move buttons and they often move the map more than I want it to. Hopefully this feature works in Safari soon.
Dragging the map doesn't work :-(
That's strange -- dragging works great for me in Safari. Are you using a non-default mouse driver, or any unusual plugins?
Dragging the map doesn't work :-(
I, too, cannot drag the map in Safari. It works fine in Firefox.
Dragging the map doesn't work :-(
I use Privoxy to filter web content and I use iScroll2 to add two finger scrolling functionality to my trackpad. To check if either was a problem, I uninstalled iScroll2 and turned off Privoxy. I still can not drag the google maps in Safari, I can only scroll with their buttons.
Google Maps now supports Safari
I've got to say, yay!
Google Maps now supports Safari
this works great:
Google Maps now supports Safari
It's a same applescript plugin do not work with OS 10.2.X Address Book. Time marches on if one doesn't upgrade to the latest and greatest.
Google Maps now supports Safari
Nada for Canada or outside the USA... Is there?
Google Maps now supports Safari
I must be doing something wrong because it does not work for OSX 10.3.8:
Google Maps now supports Safari
Much better looking than MapQuest but seems to be as inaccurate. To get to my house - a straight forward matter- Google takes me thru a national forest with no road and accross a creek with no bridge!!
Google Maps now supports Safari
Remember folks, Google Maps is very early beta. Also, the accuracy of routes or locations is probably a 3rd party issue, as if I remember correctly they get their map data from an outside source... But I can't find the article that I read that in, so it could be entirely incorrect.
Google Maps now supports Safari
This might be of some interest to those curious about Google's maps:
Google Maps now supports Safari
This is a better link that the last I offered:
Printing NG
Try printing a simple route map, a la AAA TripTik. Safari, both in hardcopy print and in print Preview, shows an opaque white rectangle, obscuring the map, defined by the start and end points of the route, and only shows the blue route "highlighter"over the white. Trying it with Firefox, the map shows, but not the blue route line. G4 MDD 10.3.8, repeat results on other machines and by other users. |
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