Is there an Apple Maps for the web browser?
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=maps&t=h_&ia=maps&iaxm=maps
DDG has been using Apple Maps via browser for the last year or two IIRC.
Apple delivers a new redesigned Maps for users in the United States
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#32At this point, I absolutely hate when people use Apple Maps to find our community college. Apple just plain refuses to acknowledge the town we are located in exists. It also ignores all businesses on the reservation and points to the local Coca-Cola bottling location as the closest grocery store. I've filed bugs going back years and no changes. Privacy and UI cannot overcome really poor data.
Have you tried emailing tcook at apple’s domain to get executive escalation team support? Not that that should be necessary of course, just exhausting all options for remediation.
No, I haven't. I'm saving my one shot at that if the we cannot get Swift Curriculum offered. https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2017/08/leading-us-community-...
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#33I enjoy how they keep saying private as a f you to Google Maps. I’ll give Maps a try again, the privacy is a good enticement for me.
Google maps near me is riddled with advertisements now. Promoted pins or whatever they call it. Of course, it’s for stores that I won’t ever have a need to visit.
The final straw that got me to ditch android was Google sending me push notifications asking me to review places I've been to, via maps.
If you want reviews, pay secret shoppers. And if you want me to use your app, don't make it painfully obvious you're spying on exactly where I go and when to do what.
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#34People don't use Waze anymore? I find Waze to be more accurate in terms of time on longer drives.
Waze would always route me through a spiderweb of neighborhood streets to save me a couple minutes of commute time back when I used to use it, but the main reason I switched is that I prefer the design of Apple Maps, and it works "good enough". Google Maps and Waze don't really feel like they fit into the iOS design guidelines, and the overhead of loading all that sponsored content within them just makes them feel sluggish while Apple Maps is always buttery smooth and keeps most of its interface out of your way when you're not using it.
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#35i have been using Apple Maps exclusively for the past year (in Los Angeles and Denver/Boulder areas) with no issue/problems. Google Maps is cluttered with an ugly phantasmagoria of adverts and after a while of not needing to use it, i just deleted it from all my devices. The only feature i find myself wanting that Google Maps has that Apple Maps lacks is an "offline maps" feature.
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#36Congrats to the teams who did this! It’s been a long time coming.. and a lot of people said along the way that Apple should just give up it was too far behind. Perseverance (and a lot of resources) can go a long way! It reminds me of some advice given to me by a heavily successful industrialist friend — never dismiss your competition, for the world is not static.
"Is it Apple Maps bad?" --Gavin Belson, Silicon Valley They had no place to go but up. That first version was absolutely embarrassing. I'm honestly surprised they were allowed to make it this far. To this day, I still do not use Apple Maps. As much as they try to get me to use it with all of the iOS embedding they've done, I still won't use it.
Why not? Because it started out bad.... 7 years ago?
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#37What I hate most about Apple Maps is that reports about incorrect data never seem to go anywhere. Apple Maps thinks that the road that leads to my house is a one-way street. It's not. But because of this error Apple Maps always wants to send me on a 5 minutes detour if I try to use it to navigate home.
I've reported the problem twice but never got an answer or a correction. In fact all problems I've ever reported in the Maps app were completely ignored.
This is why I don't use Apple Maps.
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#38Decent cosmetic upgrade. I just opened it to check out my home though and the road names are shifted halfway across the screen. Some are duplicated: both a name on the street, and then the name again out in the middle of nowhere. Guess there are a few glitches but those should be quick to clear up.
Along with cycling directions like others are asking for, I would love for them to add multi-destination navigation. It was really nice being able to make a detour to an ad-hoc location while navigating in GMaps, or plan a route with multiple stops ahead of time.
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#39People don't use Waze anymore? I find Waze to be more accurate in terms of time on longer drives.
While the Waze app is still separate from Google Maps, I am sure Google is using a ton of the previously Waze specific (mostly user sourced) data in Google Maps since they acquired it in 2013. https://techcrunch.com/2013/06/11/its-official-google-buys-w...
I occasionally see speed trap alerts in Google Maps, which I figure are sourced from waze user reports.
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#40This reminds me of the individual who was doing an in-depth comparison of the history of Google Maps, Apple Maps, and how far ahead Google Maps was. They dove into comparisons for walking paths, "activity hot spots", green spaces, 3D mapping of buildings, etc. Does anyone remember the post and maybe has a link?