I live in London, so I know the problems with this app firsthand (although, I'm sure many worldwide city-dwellers do as well). The main issue is that it requires you to hold your iPhone out in front of you for extended periods while lost. The one time I used my iPhone, even clandestinely, to navigate in London, it attracted the wrong kind of attention, and I was mugged. Imagine throngs of tourists/lost people holding their iPhones right in front of their faces while walking around strange neighbourhoods. What's more, this app only shows you where the station is as the crow flies. London is a rabbit warren of alleyways and cul-de-sacs. Knowing that the station is "over there" is incredibly useless unless you know which streets to take. All that said, though, the technology behind this app is very cool. I just wish that it debuted in a... more thought out format.
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I live in London, so I know the problems with this app firsthand (although, I'm sure many worldwide city-dwellers do as well). The main issue is that it requires you to hold your iPhone out in front of you for extended periods while lost. The one time I used my iPhone, even clandestinely, to navigate in London, it attracted the wrong kind of attention, and I was mugged. Imagine throngs of tourists/lost people holding their iPhones right in front of their faces while walking around strange neighbourhoods. What's more, this app only shows you where the station is as the crow flies. London is a rabbit warren of alleyways and cul-de-sacs. Knowing that the station is "over there" is incredibly useless unless you know which streets to take. All that said, though, the technology behind this app is very cool. I just wish that it debuted in a... more thought out format.