Yandex cards for iPhone 5s. "Yandex.Maps" offline and how to install your maps on iPhone

Yandex maps for iPhone is one of the most popular free navigation programs for downloading on the RuNet. Allows you to view detailed maps of the world and navigate the area using satellite images. It has powerful tools for searching for restaurants, ATMs, gas stations and other public places. Contains the largest archive of panoramas of CIS cities.
Separately, it is worth noting the Yandex.Traffic service - the most widespread assistant for motorists on the Russian-language Internet. Thanks to the huge number of users, it is quickly updated and publishes up-to-date information about traffic jams, road accidents, and unscheduled road repairs.

Program features:

• large up-to-date database (including CIS countries);
• the ability to view panoramas of streets and squares of large cities;
• voice search - especially convenient when working with the program while driving;
• Yandex.Traffic;
• searching for the optimal path taking into account the schedule public transport.

Principle of operation:

Installing the application on iPhone is standard. The program can both download maps from an online database and work with pre-installed images of large cities in three countries - Russia, Ukraine, Belarus. You can install them for offline viewing by selecting “Download map” in the application menu. This option will be very convenient, especially if Internet access is via GPRS/EDGE technology.

Separately, it is worth noting the principle of operation of the Yandex Traffic Service - it is based on calculating the speed of movement of application users, as well as additional tags that are installed in manual mode by the program users themselves.

Pros:

• a really large and detailed map of the area;
• panoramas of big cities;
• Yandex Traffic function.

Minuses:

• offline access is not possible for local areas, only for populated areas;
• Voice search is sensitive to background noise.

Analogues:

a similar service from the global giant - Google Maps has similar options, but its database of RuNet cities is not as large.

Yandex Maps is an indispensable application for residents of big cities and travelers.

Work without a network connection

Almost all solutions of this kind support the ability to download maps to the device. Yandex Maps is no different from its analogues. You can use the application both online and offline. By the way, loading maps into the device’s memory will help increase the battery life.

Functions

The following features are available to application users:

• viewing contacts and reviews of city organizations;
• search for addresses on the map without connecting to the network;
• real-time traffic congestion research;
• building a route for a pedestrian, car or public transport;
• use of voice prompts while following the chosen path;
• access to public transport schedules.

Purpose

The Yandex Maps application for iOS will be equally useful for those who are used to moving around the city on foot, as well as for those who have personal transport. Regardless of which category you personally belong to, this solution from Yandex will help you easily get to the desired point by choosing the optimal route. However, drivers are still recommended to use the application. It, like Yandex Maps, is available for download and use completely free of charge.

Key Features

• viewing information about organizations;
• construction of pedestrian and transport routes;
• monitoring traffic congestion;
• receiving notifications about road hazards;
• using cards without a network connection;
• nice modern interface;
• access to a database of public transport routes;
• Compatible with all current iPhone and iPad models.

Probably one of the most popular programs navigation for iPhone is the Yandex Navigator program. Today there will be a lot of information about Yandex Navigator.

Yandex.Navigator - what is this program?

If you are a happy car owner and you know the city very poorly, then without such a program as Yandex Navigator you just can't get by.

There is also the Yandex.Maps application, but under no circumstances confuse these two programs. Maps can also be used, but the Navigator is made with voice prompts and other details like on devices designed for navigation in cars.

In order not to write long and tediously about the program’s capabilities, it’s enough to simply make a list of its main functions:

• building optimal routes;
• voice prompts;
• ability to view traffic jams;
• places as bookmarks;
• changing the route depending on the situation.

So if you have a car and a mobile device, this application will come in handy more than once.

You don’t need to do anything special for this program to appear on your device. You just have to check a couple of nuances before installing.


The first nuance is the device itself. If you have an iPhone lower than 4, then look for older versions on the Internet and download them. You must also have iOS no lower than 7.0.

How to use Yandex Navigator?

Some usage details will be mentioned in the following paragraphs, but I will tell you in general how to use this wonderful program.


So, when you launch it, you will see four tabs: Search, Map, My Places and Menu. Search We use it when we need to assign a new point for a route.

On Map we are during navigation, you can also see if there are traffic jams ahead. My places are a kind of bookmark of the places you will go to most often.

And the last tab is Menu, on it you can go to your Yandex profile, change the navigator voice, disable night mode and other details.

Let's say you have the desired address and you need to somehow create a route there. The program is running and now you should go to the tab Search.

On this tab below we see a selection of different establishments that could be useful to you. This could be the nearest gas station or just a place to grab a snack.

So, at the top we see the Search line, where we actually write our goal. Once you start writing, hints will appear at the bottom, which will speed up the whole process a little.

You will be offered several of the most optimal routes, which will show the time and distance that will have to be covered.

Select the one you want and click Go. Sometimes it happens that we need to go through a certain place, but we want to build a route straight to the end point.

To do this, there is a blue plus sign, which we drag to the desired road and the route will be rebuilt.

How to enter coordinates in Yandex.Navigator?

The question is very similar to the previous one, and in fact, to complete it, we also go to the tab Search and enter the addressee you need.

Quite often there is such a situation that you have completely looked through the entire route, started driving using the navigator, and suddenly you see that the places do not coincide with the previously viewed route.


If suddenly there is a traffic jam on your way and there is an opportunity to get around it, then the navigator immediately changes the route and takes you along a completely different path.

At first it was even a little scary, but then you begin to understand how much time you save by not standing in traffic jams.

Yandex.Navigator does not detect location

If you have launched the program, but your location is simply not detected, then first of all we check whether you have turned off geolocation on your iPhone.

You can find where to find it and turn it on in the material. But there is also a possibility that you cannot find the satellite.

This happens if you are far from the city center or simply out of reach of a satellite.

If you drive using this application very often, then there is a chance that the voice may sooner or later get boring.


There are two voices: Dima and Oksana. To change it just go to Menu — Sound — Voice.

Yandex.Navigator does not work without the Internet

Even if you download maps of the desired city in this application and want to use it without the Internet, nothing will work.

Your location is not enough for these maps. A lot of data is downloaded from the Internet and therefore at least Edge must be enabled. But you can see the desired address on the map.

There are many programs for offline navigation, but they are very specific and can only recommend the optimal route.

Cards are one of the most popular standard applications in iOS. Navigation on smartphones and tablets is very useful in mobile devices ah function that allows you to comfortably and quickly find your way to to the right places, buildings and addresses. However, in addition to the built-in iPad application, there are several other high-quality and convenient navigation applications, including offline maps for iOS.

Popular iOS maps

Google Maps. This is the most popular application among all iOS cards, which is installed on almost every iPhone and iPad. A high degree of detail, pedestrian and car routes, a useful Street View function (viewing streets in photos) - all this makes the Google application the most popular among users of mobile devices not only with iOS, but also with other operating systems.
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Yandex maps. The topographic service developed by Yandex is considered the most the best option for Russian users of mobile devices with iOS. Yandex iOS maps can work offline, have a wide range of useful functionality, are distinguished by detailed depiction of terrain and other advantages. Yandex iOS maps are worth downloading for every owner of an Apple device, since it is impossible to find more detailed information about Russian settlements in any other service. The application is updated regularly, and you can download it absolutely free. The application can also be used.
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2 Gis. Although this map service contains a relatively small number of cities, the information provided about each of them is absolutely complete and does not need any correction. The names of organizations, their addresses and telephone numbers, as well as routes to them are very convenient for many business people. The application is at the stage of active development, which promises it very great prospects.
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Navitel. These iOS offline maps are also very popular among users of Apple mobile devices, but they have a rather controversial reputation: some users are delighted with them, while others do not want to hear about the service. Among other things, the application is paid; for maps of Russia, Kazakhstan and Belarus you will have to pay about 2,000 rubles. Surprisingly, terrain plans of European countries are several times cheaper.
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City Maps 2Go — offline maps iOS, which will help every travel lover. The service is constantly updated with new cities, providing users with information about their institutions and attractions.

Now we will not consider the maps that are installed by default on the iPad from Google - we will look at maps from their direct competitor in Russia -.

You can install them for free from app store— To be honest, I would be surprised if I had to pay for a product that was analogous to one that was already preinstalled upon purchase. AND standard cards are not so bad that they need replacement.

Well, first of all, we have a choice of how to look at the map. There are two modes from Satellite and a schematic mode. This is what the center of Rostov-on-Don looks like from space. In the left top corner we see a traffic light - it functions as a button with which we can turn off or turn on the display of traffic jams.

And this is how the same place looks on a schematic map. That is, Yandex maps on iPad work exactly the same as their online version on a computer.

A good search on maps - it finds not only cities, but also streets, villages, stations, train platforms, etc. True, searching in foreign places is an order of magnitude inferior to searching in Russia. But Yandex maps are not aimed at residents of some New Guinea.

If in Rostov traffic jams are recorded only on a few central streets, then Moscow is simply entangled in a “traffic jam network”.

You can also get directions, but there is a big disadvantage. If for Moscow it is easy to do this, then for Rostov (and Rostov-on-Don is a city with a population of over a million), the application notifies that it is not able to do this. Also, if the program plots a route, it says the distance from object A to B. But here the phrase in the program seemed very incomprehensible to me: 13.4 km, taking into account traffic jams. That is, the creators of the application think that the distance somehow depends on traffic jams!?.

You can virtually walk along the mapped route—it’s very convenient to use this in a car when driving in the city.

I will also say that open cards the program stores it in the cache and the second time you access the same location, it opens it without access to the Internet.

Evaluation of this program - if it were useful throughout Russia, it would not have a price. As it is, it’s a must-have for residents of large cities; for others, it will only be useful as a map. It is basically useless to me abroad now.