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Gurvan · 08-26-2014, 03:17 AM

Hello there,

I have a suggestion for an enhancement to Marvin which I find could be useful... :roll eyes:

You have a wonderful lookup feature inside Marvin that allows you to search a word in Wiktionary, Google or do other trick with a word (or more...) that has been highlighted. Why not extend that trick to a geographical search using Google Maps or Apple Plans ?

The idea being that when I read a book that contains the name of a place, (Say the Eiffel Tower in Paris...), I would be able to get to a map of that place using one of the aforementioned services (As I am still using an old iPad 1 under iOS 5, Google Maps is my favorite...) and see where it is physically in the world...

I was reading a book from Pico Iyer : https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...ng_Off_the_Map when I thought about that one...

for reading that one and an even greater thanks if it can be implemented in a backward compatible fashion with my old version...

08-26-2014, 03:17 AM	#1
Gurvan Groupie Posts: 189 Karma: 986146 Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: En Europe, mais pas loin des Etats-Unis et d'un grand groupe de hard-rock Allemand... Device: iPhone 6+ and iPad 1 (love them both...)	Geographical search... Hello there, I have a suggestion for an enhancement to Marvin which I find could be useful... :roll eyes: You have a wonderful lookup feature inside Marvin that allows you to search a word in Wiktionary, Google or do other trick with a word (or more...) that has been highlighted. Why not extend that trick to a geographical search using Google Maps or Apple Plans ? The idea being that when I read a book that contains the name of a place, (Say the Eiffel Tower in Paris...), I would be able to get to a map of that place using one of the aforementioned services (As I am still using an old iPad 1 under iOS 5, Google Maps is my favorite...) and see where it is physically in the world... I was reading a book from Pico Iyer : https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...ng_Off_the_Map when I thought about that one... for reading that one and an even greater thanks if it can be implemented in a backward compatible fashion with my old version...