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Apple Maps' Acceleration (2020)

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Re: Apple Maps' Acceleration (2020)

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mattlondon wrote: post #104
websap wrote: post #78

I've been recently trying out the new Apple maps' turn by turn navigation. Some of the directions are almost human like - "Take a left at next traffic light" Must say makes driving directions easier to follow compared to take a left on X street, when I can't even see what X street is at night.

Doesn't Google maps do this too? At least in the UK I can hear "at the roundabout, take the Xth exit" echoing in my head right now. Can't remember about traffic lights. It does mention road names though which is kinda silly... If I knew the roads well enough to know what they are called I'd not need directions!

Definitely doesn't do it for traffic lights in the US.

Re: Apple Maps' Acceleration (2020)

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Post by Cipater »

throwawaysea wrote: post #2

This article is from last year but the latest iOS 15 updates show how mature Apple maps has become (see https://www.macrumors.com/guide/ios-15-maps/ ). It’s not just at parity but actually better than Google maps. It has beautiful rendering and easy readability, and I haven’t encountered odd routing issues for a couple years now. The added privacy is a welcome bonus. The only thing missing is a way to report police p…

>It’s not just at parity but actually better than Google maps.

In North America.

Google maps is accurate down to minute details in African countries.

Re: Apple Maps' Acceleration (2020)

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Post by websap »

larrik wrote: post #90
websap wrote: post #78

I've been recently trying out the new Apple maps' turn by turn navigation. Some of the directions are almost human like - "Take a left at next traffic light" Must say makes driving directions easier to follow compared to take a left on X street, when I can't even see what X street is at night.

It seems great, and then on a rainy night while I'm running late it brought me to the wrong place... It was only about 200 yards up the road, but it brought me to someone's house, and had me turn in the wrong direction. So, I was even later...

200 yards = 182 meters. This definitely seems like an issue, hope you had the chance to report it. My expectation from maps is generally a resolution of about 10m.

Re: Apple Maps' Acceleration (2020)

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Post by pfranz »

mcphage wrote: post #56
pfranz wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's a very nice feature. I'm not quite sure of what metric they're using. Some busses can show real-time locations, others they obviously dont have that info. Sometimes it will ping me a stop early (if the stops are close together?). I do wish there was a way to either stop directions on the phone, or put it in low power mode. It seems to eat my battery on long bus trips if its just sitting in my pocket. On car trip…

> I'm not quite sure of what metric they're using. Some busses can show real-time locations, others they obviously dont have that info Why would they need to know where the bus is, when they already know where you are?

That might work for a bus out in the open, but GPS doesn't work well with a lot of nearby tall buildings, or for subways underground.

Maybe they are using GPS and silently failing in all other situations? My point is that it's nice when it works but could use some improvement on whatever method they're using.

Re: Apple Maps' Acceleration (2020)

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Post by bori5 »

Someone wrote: post #99
bori5 wrote: post #59

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“Easy readability” on this point I find myself wishing there was a way to make street names and fonts in general bigger in Apple Maps. Also green font on green backgrounds, why ? In terms of planning there is still no way to add multiple routes along the way which would be a nice addition.

_If_ you can live with having larger text in other apps, too, you can do that in the accessibility settings.

That helps at the expense of everything else now borked, but I wonder what is so hard about having a per app font setting ?

Re: Apple Maps' Acceleration (2020)

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Post by Rebelgecko »

mattlondon wrote: post #104
websap wrote: post #78

I've been recently trying out the new Apple maps' turn by turn navigation. Some of the directions are almost human like - "Take a left at next traffic light" Must say makes driving directions easier to follow compared to take a left on X street, when I can't even see what X street is at night.

Doesn't Google maps do this too? At least in the UK I can hear "at the roundabout, take the Xth exit" echoing in my head right now. Can't remember about traffic lights. It does mention road names though which is kinda silly... If I knew the roads well enough to know what they are called I'd not need directions!

Google Maps also uses landmarks, eg "turn right after the GameStop". AFAIK those aren't sponsored

Re: Apple Maps' Acceleration (2020)

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Post by Rebelgecko »

lnanek2 wrote: post #68

Even if Apple Maps doesn't have as much data as Google, the experience is so much better. Makes a lot of sense that Google is copying it as per the article. Whenever I use Google Maps, it constantly harasses me about how there's a slowdown ahead, puts a little tray across the bottom of the screen hiding the information I care about, with no way to get rid of it except tapping and other nonsense. I searched throughout…

Those popups autodismiss after something like 5-10 seconds

Re: Apple Maps' Acceleration (2020)

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Post by fomine3 »

tylerrobinson wrote: post #97

Every time I've tried Apple Maps, I run into the same problem--it doesn't seem to predict your realtime location ahead by X feet to account for your speed and delay in GPS signal. Google Maps does this. The result is that on Apple Maps, your position is "behind" where you really are at the moment, and it's harder to make the turn. Google's tradeoff is that if you miss a turn, it will momentarily show your position as…

Possibly only Android Auto receives vehicle speed signal from a car? https://developer.android.com/reference/android/car/VehicleP...

Re: Apple Maps' Acceleration (2020)

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Post by websap »

Rebelgecko wrote: post #117
mattlondon wrote: post #104

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doesn't Google maps do this too? At least in the UK I can hear "at the roundabout, take the Xth exit" echoing in my head right now. Can't remember about traffic lights. It does mention road names though which is kinda silly... If I knew the roads well enough to know what they are called I'd not need directions!

Google Maps also uses landmarks, eg "turn right after the GameStop". AFAIK those aren't sponsored

Problem is that when I'm driving I'm not paying attention to businesses around me. I've gotten a direction once like take left at Starbucks, how far is the starbucks away, is it the next left or the one after that? Now I need to glance for a Starbucks while I'm driving?
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