IOS Maps and China
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IOS Maps and China
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#2If the places shown on the map are actually in those locations, then yes, I am very impressed.
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#3I zoomed in on the area around the author's location and I'm seeing a fair amount of detail surfacing, as well as most of the same locations that are visible on the iOS 6 map. Is it possible that Apple is showing more detail farther away whereas Google requires a tighter zoom?
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#4Is it just me, or do the two examples look pretty similar? Apple Maps shows a few more businesses, but the street data look more or less equivalent.
Find me some examples where Apple Maps is complete and detailed and Google Maps has nothing.
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#5I zoomed in on the area around the author's location and I'm seeing a fair amount of detail surfacing, as well as most of the same locations that are visible on the iOS 6 map. Is it possible that Apple is showing more detail farther away whereas Google requires a tighter zoom? http://goo.gl/maps/ZQSzI
... and I can't even find that area in Apple Maps. I zoom in moderately far, and the whole map seems empty.
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#6For most of the prefecture level cities I've searched for I find nothing.
Kunming, Maoming, Sanya, Zhanjiang, Nanning, Nanchang, ...
It's only the big international cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan, Guangzou, Shenzhen, that appear.
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#7Of more interest to me would be whether the apple maps are being deliberately offset like the google ones are. You can't accurately use GPS with google maps in China because the map tiles are shifted by some arbitrary amount.
https://productforums.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!topic/m...
You can see it very clearly if you visit the Hong Kong/Shenzhen border on google maps and toggle between map & satellite, the border is a complete mess with large parts of the Mainland side appearing on the Hong Kong side.
I've always assumed this was a deliberate thing by the Chinese government (one way or another), I wonder if apple have got away without such treatment?
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#8Interesting point but I'd like to see some feedback from real Chinese user(s). (although I am Chinese, I am not currently physically in China so cannot test it out).
The major difference between the two maps is that the Apple one has more POIs (and it looks even more cluttered because it contains Chinese characters). As noted by beering, the base map are essentially the same in this particular example. IOS6 maps are criticized for missing spatial features in the base map (i.e., road network, waterbodies, .etc), which largely due to the use of OSM instead of commercial database.
I am not seeing a counter example here. The comparison is even based on different map range (note the IOS6 map covers a larger region than the google map example).
What I've heard is that Google maps works really bad in some rural part of Europe, e.g., South France. Maybe look for some examples there.
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#9I noticed this over the summer when I was in Beijing/Shanghai with the iOS 6 beta. As soon as I got on the Chinese cell network, the maps suddenly changed to the AutoNavi maps, which although they turned out to be significantly more useful, they weren't vector-based maps and you couldn't rotate them like Apple maps. I also noticed a few other things like I no longer had access maps of any other country and after comparing the maps to the Google Maps in China on my locked iOS 5 phone, the AutoNavi maps were SIGNIFICANTLY more useful (and even saved me when I was lost one time).
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#10For most of the prefecture level cities I've searched for I find nothing. Kunming, Maoming, Sanya, Zhanjiang, Nanning, Nanchang, ... It's only the big international cities like Beijing, Shanghai, Wuhan, Guangzou, Shenzhen, that appear.
I think if you view that data from outside China, it's not visible. That is, the details show up only while searching from within China.