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Cartography Comparison: Google Maps and Apple Maps
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Re: Cartography Comparison: Google Maps and Apple Maps
#22I liked the previous article and this one too but the website layout is just annoying. 50% width of the page is blank.
And I'd be fine with that width for text -- short lines are easier to read, up to a point -- but when the article is about images, really, let me use a reasonable amount of my screen to see the images.
I know you can zoom by clicking on the image. That zoom is barely acceptable. That should have been the size of the image in the article, and clicking on them should zoom more and let me scroll.
Re: Cartography Comparison: Google Maps and Apple Maps
#23If I had to tl;dr my conclusions from this post it's this, Google is better at showing you how to navigate, Apple is better at showing you places worth going to. Really great analysis. I wish it was a bit more succinct, but there's a lot of great information here. One thing that's not clear in each comparison is "which is better?" The analysis seems to be indicating that the answer is "more", but I'm not entirely con…
"The analysis seems to be indicating that the answer is "more","
That wasn't my read at all. What made you think that?
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#24Apple maps is beyond awful where I live (Romania), it's not even worth mentioning it as an option. The problem is not only with the maps, but also with the points of interest.
I'm in Chile. It totally blows here too.
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#25Apple Maps is great because
1. the sign it shows actually matches the sign on the roads
2 UI is clean and clutter free
3. Takes less battery life
4. uses lock screen properly unlike gmaps
5. Better voice
Google Maps on the other hand is just a buggy app and a battery hog. However there're few things Google Maps does better
1. Which lane to use
2. Suggest new route mid route for faster speed
For me (in US) routes are exactly the same all the time.
Re: Cartography Comparison: Google Maps and Apple Maps
#26Apple Maps is useless in India and South Asia in general. It was useless on Day 1 and is pretty much just as useless today. Google Maps on the other hand, not only has turn-by-turn directions, but has even customized it to give directions the way they do it locally (using buildings and landmarks instead of streets where applicable). If Apple Maps wants to become a Universal Map platform, they have a very long way to…
Of course they started at least 10 years after Google.
Google had to wait for the tech to catch up.
Apple didn't have to.
Apple is the world's richest company - ´ if they really wanted to make maps work everywhere they could have.
Its simply not a priority for them (which is fine).
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#27Apple Maps is only available for Apple products, right? The claim in the article that it could become some kind of a universal map seems simply ridiculous. I've never seen anyone use it, I've never heard a good word about it. Here Maps, Bing Maps, and OpenStreetMap all seem to have a larger following. Then again, I've been wrong countless times before.
I was not aware there was a bing maps. (not a troll, just a random data point).
I agree that apple's effort in developing maps has to scale over a smaller user base than google's efforts, which doesn't encourage the same level of investment. Plus apple doesn't appear to be able/willing to monetize their user's usage the way Google can/does which also increases google's incentive to do a good job.
Honestly, I really like and use many Apple products but I don't really understand their long term play.
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#28I liked the previous article and this one too but the website layout is just annoying. 50% width of the page is blank.
personally I like that I can just read the text and not have other random crud wasting my time and attention. It was trivial to increase the text size so that the text took the right amount of space for me.
Re: Cartography Comparison: Google Maps and Apple Maps
#29If I had to tl;dr my conclusions from this post it's this, Google is better at showing you how to navigate, Apple is better at showing you places worth going to. Really great analysis. I wish it was a bit more succinct, but there's a lot of great information here. One thing that's not clear in each comparison is "which is better?" The analysis seems to be indicating that the answer is "more", but I'm not entirely con…
"The analysis seems to be indicating that the answer is "more"," That wasn't my read at all. What made you think that?
Most of the comparisons seemed to be about number of things at various zoom levels.
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#30My main use case for directions is inter-city travel in the US with an iOS device.
From a mapping capability standpoint, the two products are equals at the intercity level. (Google local directions are better at finding places)
But... Google is seemingly committed to making the maps app more obtuse to use as time goes on. So I find myself using Apple as my map app with Waze as a backup.