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People don't use Waze anymore? I find Waze to be more accurate in terms of time on longer drives.
(The one exception was the time there were multiple significant tailbacks on the highway, with the amount of delay they were causing clearly shifting and changing minute-to-minute just from what we could see ourselves.)
I jumped on this post, thinking "awesome! they've definitely added bike routing! Now i can finally switch from Google Maps.". Unfortunately – still no dice.
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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?
Wow, what city is this? Not a city. He notes this is on a reservation. Was that using Radar? Did you try using the "Report an Issue" UI within the Maps app itself? I've given up filing map bug reports for reservations. There's simply too many. It would be a full-time job for ten people to list all of the missing/wrong places in both Apple and Google maps. There are vast areas of the United States where paper maps are…
I guess city is a bit grand, but there are towns with actual zip codes on reservations.
Part of it is the fault of history. Many places on reservations don't have street addresses, or sometimes even streets. But that doesn't mean they aren't places of commerce, community, or otherwise vital to the lives of thousands of people.
The whole 911 thing started forcing road names and addresses. The bigger problem is that what we have for an address (as told to us by one of the utility companies) is different than whatever source Apple is using. Strangely, Google figured out quite a bit more of it.
What 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…
People don't use Waze anymore? I find Waze to be more accurate in terms of time on longer drives.
I've honestly never heard of Waze. EDIT: Holy downvotes, I didn't mean it as anything negative, I actually had to Google it. You can't hear about everything :3
It was an honest response to a valid question. I was quite surprised to see it, but after reflecting, things change in the software world so quickly (and new people are born all the time) that it's inevitable that today's staples will be forgotten tomorrow. Also, congrats, you're one of today's lucky 10,000! [0]
Downvotes weren't warranted IMO, but be careful complaining about downvotes on HN, it's against their usage guidelines [1]:
> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading.
If they only could provide offline maps like google maps. That feature is fantastic in the desert areas in the west where you have no connectivity. Even the search function works great when offline. Also search still works better in google maps. Apple Maps doesn’t find the Office Depot near me but one 100 miles away for example.
It used to be that you could buy a mapping software and install it on your PDA/Pocket PC and it would run fine despite a CPU speed in the megahertz.
Nowadays offline maps is some niche advanced feature despite even low-end devices have enough processing power to come preinstalled with an offline map.
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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-...
I fail to see the connection, but every single Apple Maps correction I've submitted has been applied.
What 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…
This is absolutely true, but it's not unique to Apple Maps. I've had an issue with the major road near my house in Google Maps for over three years, where it thinks a certain stretch is either absent or impassible. It shows it on the visual map, but it will go to astounding lengths to route you around that one-block stretch of (perfectly fine) road. I have reported it MANY times, and nothing has ever changed.
I'm also a local guide though so that might have something to do with it
I 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.
Source: I'm an ex Maps employee.
What 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…
This is absolutely true, but it's not unique to Apple Maps. I've had an issue with the major road near my house in Google Maps for over three years, where it thinks a certain stretch is either absent or impassible. It shows it on the visual map, but it will go to astounding lengths to route you around that one-block stretch of (perfectly fine) road. I have reported it MANY times, and nothing has ever changed.