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Apple delivers a new redesigned Maps for users in the United States

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Re: Apple delivers a new redesigned Maps for users in the United States

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Post by theshrike79 »

reaperducer wrote: post #417
loeg wrote: post #412

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This would be a great idea if speed limits were set by any plausibly reasonable process, but in truth they are set arbitrarily and capriciously.

This would be a great idea if speed limits were set by any plausibly reasonable process, but in truth they are set arbitrarily and capriciously. Demonstrably untrue. There is an entire very technical industry for this sort of thing. People who take an interest in their communities and go to planning and city council meetings know this. Those who are not involved their communities just complain and blame it on The Man…

Yes, lowering the speed limit on a 30 degree declining hill from 100kph to 60kph and having a speed camera at the bottom is "very technical" and not a clear money maker.

You need to break pretty hard to not get fined.

Re: Apple delivers a new redesigned Maps for users in the United States

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Post by Nextgrid »

chihuahua wrote: post #367
Nextgrid wrote: post #106

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It’s sad that technology has actually regressed despite exponential increments in processing power and storage capacity. 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 mega hertz. Nowadays offline maps is some niche advanced feature despite even low-end devices have enough processing power to come preinstalled with an offline m…

There is an app called "Here maps" (free) which lets you download map data for individual states and countries for offline usage.

This is what I use. My argument is that this basic feature should be part of default navigation apps.

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Post by airstrike »

criddell wrote: post #374
airstrike wrote: post #137

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I think that depends on how you define "market". Globally, sure, but in the US that's not the case https://www.statista.com/statistics/620805/smartphone-sales-...

The market is all the places the devices are sold. So global makes sense. If you define the market as San Francisco then Apple might have a monopoly. But that feels a little like market gerrymandering. Even if you were going to restrict to just the US, Apple still sells fewer than 50% of the phones.

Fewer than 50% is different from "Google sells twice as many"

> The market is all the places the devices are sold.

Certainly US regulators / courts don't purport to have jurisdiction over foreign markets, agreed? The aforementioned EU case against Microsoft was about the EU market alone.

Re: Apple delivers a new redesigned Maps for users in the United States

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Post by destitude »

Still seems like there needs to be more context in rural USA areas where at not too low of zoom levels it is only showing state highways which makes it difficult to determine how to get to certain areas. When you zoom in enough for the other "major" roads to show up you lose all context because you are zoomed in too far now.

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Post by Invictus0 »

aabhay wrote: post #126
Invictus0 wrote: post #99

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Google maps doesn't even need you to report anything. I used to make a forbidden left turn every day on my way to work with Google maps running. After a while, it just updated the directions to include my bad driving: no report necessary.

How can you be sure that it was automatic? Maybe someone just reported that turn?

There was a large sign at that intersection that said no left turn, which I disregarded because it was 6am and there were no cars there at all. Of course it's still possible that someone reported it, but that seems fairly unlikely.

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Post by dylan604 »

xenospn wrote: post #371
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Anecdotally Apple Maps is still really bad. I have tried using it to drive and walk around major cities in the last two years and it just completely misrepresents where some roads are, it doesn't catch up with construction, etc. etc.

Anecdotally I have been using it for the last 7 years and it's been perfectly fine around multiple US states and dozens of cities. The only glitch I had was driving out of the Dallas airport, but Google Maps had the exact same glitch.

Don't worry, everyone has problems driving out of DFW airport with or without a maps app. From it's left exits to the merging lanes from cloverleaf ramps/exits, it is amazing there are not more accidents than there are.

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Post by Ididntdothis »

globular-toast wrote: post #445
shaftway wrote: post #361

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Have you used offline maps in Google Maps? And compared it to the old mapping software you're talking about? It's kind of amazing, and frankly I often don't notice the difference between online and offline. The maps sync on a regular basis, it's got detailed information about businesses including hours open, and it will route you different ways based on anticipated traffic at that time of day. It's also surprisingly…

What's amazing about it? It just has a local copy of the data. Big deal.

Not true. Search works pretty well offline too. Much better than any other offline mapping app.

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Post by Ididntdothis »

Nextgrid wrote: post #452
chihuahua wrote: post #367

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There is an app called "Here maps" (free) which lets you download map data for individual states and countries for offline usage.

This is what I use. My argument is that this basic feature should be part of default navigation apps.

The annoying thing is that google maps is still much better :(

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Post by jschwartzi »

what_ever wrote: post #318
jschwartzi wrote: post #310

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Yeah, whenever my fiance or I try to search for a location, it takes maps several seconds to let us start typing. It only does this when we turn location history off. Honestly one of the things that drove me to stop using my G4 was this issue, because I had thought it was a performance issue with the phone. Then my fiance showed me how slow her S7 was with location history turned off versus on. Regarding the prompt,…

I just cold-started the Maps app, and search and keyboard opened instantly. May be try deleting the app data and cache? If not, not sure what's the issue honestly.

I just replaced the phone with an iPhone.
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