ical travel time

are you entering in an address in "add location"? if so, how are you adding the address? typing it in by hand or cut/copy/paste from another source?

I'm having the same issue. I open an existing ical entry or create a new one, and type the address into the "location". I have tried typing it in free form and copy/pasting it. No option to add a travel time on my iphone or on the desktop... Location services are turned on.

Having exact same problems myself.

Same here - cool feature would love to resolve

Is there a chance it is Geograpical i.e not supported in Australia ??

Dont think so...I'm in the USA and have the same issue. I'm guessing there's some setup we need to do...

As of now, iCal will only add maps and travel time events based off of the Apple Maps database or from your contacts.

Example, you are meeting a friend for lunch at "Temple Cafe"

Once you add the name for the event, under the title, you can click in the menu to "Add Location", instead of typing the address, just type, "temple cafe". iCal will do a search based off the Apple Maps database to find a location matching that description, once it is displayed, you can click on the name and it will add the address of the location. After that, you can go into the time options and add in the travel time, it will automatically be based from your last known location, or you can add your own custom time.

Alternatively, you can also search your contacts when you are typing in the location field and it will add addresses that are based off of your contacts list.

Unfortunetly, as of now, you cannot add/type the address within the location field and have it associate with the location. I am sure this is a feature that will be added in a future update.

Note: if you are having trouble finding the name for the location, open apple's Maps app and search there first, once you find the exact name apple's database has your location under, type the same name within the iCal location.

Hope this helps

Thank you! Typing just the name of the place works, and if Apple's database doesn't have that place, I can create a contact for the place and then type the name. It takes a little getting used to, but ends up being less work!

This is not working for me. I tried searching for obvious things like the White House, but nothing comes up. If I put in a friends address, I get the map and can select the location. This feature was working for me until last week, and I have used it a number of times. Any ideas for how to get it back?

I was having a related problem - I was able to add the location of a friend (and it showed up, map and all)... but I wasn't getting travel time calculated.

Turns out you need to turn on WiFi for that. For most people that probably won't be an issue, but since I've got a cable connected to my iMac, it was a problem for me.

I have the same problem in Germany! Only addressses out of my address book will work. I tried to find some places in the apple maps app which worked great. But typing it the same way in the "location" field will give me no results. I know for sure that it workd before?!?!