One of the most thoughtful touches the folks at Apple added to the iPhone’s software is bit of code that highlights phone numbers on Web sites.
If you touch your finger to one of those phone numbers, a window pops up asking if you’d like to call that number.
This feature saves a massive amount of time that would otherwise be spent punching phone numbers onto the dial pad. It also prevents a huge number of errors in dialing the number.
I only wish Apple’s programmers had extended this feature to addresses.
Given that people tend to use phones when they’re on the move, there’s a good chance that any address that appears on screen is an address the user is trying to get to.
So it would be monumentally helpful if the software automatically highlighted all addresses and — upon the touch of a finger — asked if you wanted directions from your current location to that address.
The Google Maps program does this to some degree. If you search for, say, pizza, you get a map with pin marks showing the location of pizza places next to you. If you then touch your finger to one of those pin marks a couple times you get more info about the restaurant and a button that provides directions from your current location.
But there’s no way I’ve found to get directions automatically from an address on the Web. You have to commit it to memory, open Google Maps, type in the address and ask for directions.
As you can imagine, that takes a while and opens you up to memory or typing errors. Adress highlighting would be much handier.
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