That pushpin business also comes into play when you use Maps as a glorified national Yellow Pages. If you type, for example, pizza austin tx or pharmacy 60609, those red pushpins show you all of the drugstores in that Chicago Zip code. It’s a great way to find a gas station, cash machine, or hospital in a pinch. Tap a pushpin to see the name of the corresponding business. You can tap the O button in the pushpin’s label bubble to open a details screen about the pushpin address. If you’ve searched for a friend, you see the corresponding Contacts card. If you’ve searched for a business, you get a screen containing its phone number, address, Web site, and so on. Remember that you can tap a Web address to open it, or tap the phone number to dial it. (“Hello, what time do you close today?”) if the cluster of pushpins makes it hard to see what you’re doing, tap List. You see a neat text list of the same businesses. Tap one to see it alone on the map, or tap O to see its details card.
In both cases, you get two useful buttons, labeled Directions To Here and Directions From Here. See page 181 for details. You also get an Add to Bookmarks button, which saves this address for instant recall later, as described next. Maps and apps
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