IMHO, one of the best thing in Apple Maps is that they localized the street names to those one familiar to locals. I live in Bangkok, and Google Maps always say something like “Road No. 3” (which was not wrong, but nobody here calls it that) whereas Apple Maps correctly identify them as “Sukhumvit Road”.
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#272I'm still so perplexed why they didn't go with OpenStreetMaps which are not only floss but also infinitely better. Apple maps are absolutely useless in my region, while osm has always been at least toretable experience wherever I went in the world. Actually OSM is often better than google maps - the only thing it really lacks is better user review ecosystem.
OSM doesn't have great APIs, you end up having to have GIS experts on your team in order to use it in your product.
source:someone who tried to use OSM stuff in a IoT fleet tracking system. Even Bing maps is better than OSM
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In Germany I use OSM exclusively for navigating and it is very good. Maybe not quite on the level of Google maps concerning things like live traffic, but certainly good enough to reach your goal and then some. Love the project and would have liked to have DuckDuckGo support it instead of using proprietary data. Google Maps has shown what can happen if you use it for anything business critical. edit: Sadly OSM doesn't…
Any tips to switching, as in which app etc?
Currently my favorite OSM-based map and navigation app on Android is this one:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.github.axe...
Fantastic non-cluttered UI and offline maps that don't eat up my mobile data.
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Privacy is worth a lot to me, but Apple Maps does not have bicycle directions. So no, it is not clearly better than Google. I do use it for driving and walking directions though.
Try komoot for bike directions. in europe it was working incredibly well for bike commuting. I made like 60km per day.
Thank you, I'll try it out.
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You don't ever have to install Yelp to use it within Apple Maps. The app does not come on the iPhone by default. By default it opens the Yelp website (which of course nags you to get their app and/or login, but that's not unique to Yelp). You sure about that? For me tapping on any business info takes me straight to the iOS app store.
Ah looks like you’re right on that one. I thought that it could be used with the website.
This would be due to a "universal link"; that's something that Yelp set up on their domain. It's possible that it wasn't there in the past, so you may not be misremembering at all.
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Directing drivers "weird ways" may be a strategy to lower congestion. If all drivers take the same optimal route, and the route exceeds its capacity and clogs, everyone loses.
This is what Waze does (based on anecdata between me and friends), so it would make sense for Google Maps to do, too.
Waze is much better about it, but they can't route. Try getting directions from a place like Hartford, Connecticut to Richmond, VA.
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Apple Maps doesn’t do bike routes which is reason enough not to use it. Google Maps does a very nice job for bikes. If I should wish something of Google Maps it would be “I bring my bike on the train” routes, which is a very common and nice way to get around here in Denmark at least.
Bike routes with offline maps would be a nice addition as well...
You can have that with Here WeGo (https://wego.here.com).
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#278I was a big defender of Apple Maps, largely because I almost never saw any problems with the data. Then I moved into an apartment complex in which Apple had the driveway in the wrong place. I've moved since, so I'll spell it out: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=5940+Arapaho+Rd%2C+75248&t=osx&ia=... Apple Maps believes that the driveways are to the south and east, but in fact the front driveway--the main entrance--is to the…
I don't think there is much difference regarding privacy between apple maps and Google maps. What exactly do you loathe?
This is very untrue. Google knows where I live and work; Apple does not. Google tracks a "timeline" of everywhere I have been; Apple does not.
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#279I was a big defender of Apple Maps, largely because I almost never saw any problems with the data. Then I moved into an apartment complex in which Apple had the driveway in the wrong place. I've moved since, so I'll spell it out: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=5940+Arapaho+Rd%2C+75248&t=osx&ia=... Apple Maps believes that the driveways are to the south and east, but in fact the front driveway--the main entrance--is to the…
> So the problem will apparently never be fixed, at least until an Apple employee happens to want to visit a friend who lives in the Enclave at Prestonwood and realizes they can't get there. Or you can report the issue yourself in-app?
I haven't figured out how, but since I've gone to the trouble to complain in public, I should dig in and see if I can.
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Probably comes down to API access and/or pricing. Privacy focused mapping services are quite rare. I'd do the same in their place.
I see this as an ill-informed decision, from a viewpoint of someone living in a big western city. Results are so error-prone, it's basically useless in 99% of the locations in the world. Even Google has so much wrong information gathered from out-of-date websites and public registers. Even in central Berlin.
How do the results compare to openstreetmaps?