Apple Maps vs. Google Maps vs. Waze
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Apple Maps vs. Google Maps vs. Waze
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Re: Apple Maps vs. Google Maps vs. Waze
#2Here is the best comparison I have seen with Apple maps and Google maps hands down.
https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat/ Google Maps's Moat - Justin O'Beirne
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#3So I switched to CarPlay so I am forced to use Apple maps. It’s not that bad. I think the turn by turn is better then Google was. The only issues I cannot figure out is when you have to paths showing on the screen (dashboard screen) and you want to pick the other one (not default). There seems to be no way to do that. You just have to know to make that alternate turn then it picks it up.
Re: Apple Maps vs. Google Maps vs. Waze
#4This matches my experience trying to use Waze, multiple times, over multiple years. Sometimes the "creative" routes would seem to save time, other times exiting the freeway to take a surface street would have me sitting at the offramp for 10 minutes... possibly with all of the other Waze users who were routed that way.
There's also a familiarity level of safety taking known routes. Sure, cutting down some residential side streets might save 60 seconds, but no kid is going to run out into the road chasing a soccer ball on 101.
Re: Apple Maps vs. Google Maps vs. Waze
#5Here is the best comparison I have seen with Apple maps and Google maps hands down. https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat/ Google Maps's Moat - Justin O'Beirne
Lengthy HN discussion (over 600 comments!): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15965653
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#6Google Maps has been steering me wrong quite often the past 6 months, including instances where it has me pass the landmark or business that I am driving to, turn into a private residential neighborhood, go two to three blocks in, and say "you've arrived at your destination".
Tempted to try Apple Maps again now that it's improved since launch.
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#7So I switched to CarPlay so I am forced to use Apple maps. It’s not that bad. I think the turn by turn is better then Google was. The only issues I cannot figure out is when you have to paths showing on the screen (dashboard screen) and you want to pick the other one (not default). There seems to be no way to do that. You just have to know to make that alternate turn then it picks it up.
I haven't done it yet, but it's possible to jailbreak and put any app on CarPlay.
Re: Apple Maps vs. Google Maps vs. Waze
#8So I switched to CarPlay so I am forced to use Apple maps. It’s not that bad. I think the turn by turn is better then Google was. The only issues I cannot figure out is when you have to paths showing on the screen (dashboard screen) and you want to pick the other one (not default). There seems to be no way to do that. You just have to know to make that alternate turn then it picks it up.
I haven't done it yet, but it's possible to jailbreak and put any app on CarPlay.
Now we get to risk running malware / bricking our cars too :) great!
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
I haven't done it yet, but it's possible to jailbreak and put any app on CarPlay.
Now we get to risk running malware / bricking our cars too :) great!
My car also supports the same functionality for Android, with all the permissiveness that goes with. I can only presume there's isolation between essentially an external display for the phone and the car's core features.
Re: Apple Maps vs. Google Maps vs. Waze
#10Google Maps has been steering me wrong quite often the past 6 months, including instances where it has me pass the landmark or business that I am driving to, turn into a private residential neighborhood, go two to three blocks in, and say "you've arrived at your destination". Tempted to try Apple Maps again now that it's improved since launch.
Its funny, Google Maps has been doing almost the opposite for me -- always insisting that I go in the main entrance to a property, and continuing to route me after I've parked at the location and exited my car. For example, I was trying to get to a shop at an intersection where going in from the minor street would have been easy. Instead it, it wanted me to make 3 turns to go in on the main street.