Apple Maps is still totally useless in Mexico. Even the most die hard Apple fans still rely on Google Maps or Waze.
Apple delivers a new redesigned Maps for users in the United States
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#82At 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.
Wow, what city is this?
> I've filed bugs
Was that using Radar? Did you try using the "Report an Issue" UI within the Maps app itself?
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Re: Apple delivers a new redesigned Maps for users in the United States
#84At 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.
And that’s why the “Hoover up all the data” approach will win. Google can snoop on everyone’s emails and locations and transaction receipts and find the location and names of businesses automatically, and even their opening hours.
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#85People 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 sl…
UI-wise, I like the Apple Maps lane indicator and next turn display much, much better than the Google Maps equivalent.
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#86Decent 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…
You can do so with Apple Maps. I do it regularly, but unfortunately you can only add it as an intermediate destination when en route to a destination. You can't pre-plan a multi-point trip which I feel like is a big oversight. I've wanted to estimate multi-day road trips and it doesn't seem possible with Apple Maps.
Wow, I didn't know this was possible. To anyone else who doesn't know this, while you're navigating, tapping or dragging up on the toolbar on the bottom of the screen causes it to expand and show a few options you can tap to add to your route. Unfortunately it's just a few preselected destination types, instead of a new search.
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#87Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is what you were thinking of: https://www.justinobeirne.com/google-maps-moat
Yes, this was the one! Would be interesting to see an update here as it looks like this was from 2017
He did another write up when the data updates started: https://www.justinobeirne.com/new-apple-maps
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#88Earlier quoted context omitted.
Any idea why they haven't / are there plans to add cycle routes in the future? It seems like a glaring hole in functionality (more than "street view")
It's a super tough problem. Even Google Maps messages you that it's a feature in progress (paraphrasing of course), and they've had years of a head start on this.
There are of course plenty of bike routing sites online, generally based on OpenStreetMap source data.
I run cycle.travel (https://cycle.travel/map) which offers super-fast bike directions in Europe, North America and Australia/NZ. It has a number of unique features under the hood that I think lift the quality of its routes above other similar sites (but then I would say that). Always happy to entertain offers if Apple want to buy me...
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#89What 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…
Contrast that with Google Maps. I've submitted multiple corrections over the years and 90% have been live in just a few hours.
Agreed - I'm curious how they are able to globally deploy so quickly where others (apple / tom tom) take FOREVER to update.
Do they just have someone ground truth with satellite and street view? They do have that data for most of the corrections I make (which are frankly rare).
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#90it seems that OSM is a data pivot point -- Apple and Google are directly competing with OSM (super-walled-garden-data) while Facebook, Microsoft and who-knows-who-defense are augmenting OSM as fast as possible