{"id":7327,"date":"2017-04-30T18:32:25","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T00:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7327"},"modified":"2017-04-30T18:38:22","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T00:38:22","slug":"siri-and-maps-on-the-same-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=7327","title":{"rendered":"Siri and Maps: on the same page?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While on travel recently, I had a bit of free time and chose to visit a favorite bookstore: Denver&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tatteredcover.com\/\">Tattered Cover<\/a>.  <\/p>\n<p>A former Denver resident, I was somewhat familiar with the route, but decided to review options.  First, I asked Siri and experienced this:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2017\/04\/siri_den.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Curiously, Siri offered a list of locations, but did not lead with the closest (I knew the Colfax building was not far).  The nearby Colfax address was &#8220;beneath the fold&#8221;, as it were, on my iPhone.<\/p>\n<p>I reverted to the maps app and tapped &#8220;Tattered Cover&#8221; into the search box.  The nearest location quickly appeared:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2017\/04\/IMG_5204b.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>I found this experience curious.  <\/p>\n<p>Presumably, Siri would display the nearest location first, but did not.  Perhaps Yelp or other &#8220;weightings&#8221; (altitude?) influence the result set within the Siri world, but not maps?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/?q=%22Siri%22&#038;t=h_&#038;ia=stock\">Siri<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/duckduckgo.com\/?q=%22Siri%22&#038;t=h_&#038;ia=stock\">Apple Maps<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While on travel recently, I had a bit of free time and chose to visit a favorite bookstore: Denver&#8217;s Tattered Cover. A former Denver resident, I was somewhat familiar with the route, but decided to review options. First, I asked Siri and experienced this: Curiously, Siri offered a list of locations, but did not lead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7327"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7327"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7327\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7334,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7327\/revisions\/7334"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}