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1. If you don't mind Chinese maps, Amap.com is also a good solution, listed on the Google Play store if you plan ahead to download. You are in China, use some Chinese maps! Translate / dictionary is helpful. Amap has many place names in English as well (Banks, airports).

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Using Baidu Maps worked fine for me for public transportation directions / walking directions. Often I could search for a location in English or Pinyin as well.

It only gets tricky when you want to take a taxi. Sure - you could show the address to a driver, but I found that to be very awkward and it didn't always result in success.

So my major problem with using Baidu Maps is the fact that I cannot view addresses or locations in Pinyin. If I knew the characters I could pronounce it :)

Amap is also where Apple is getting some of its Chinese data from.

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