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iOS 7 and Maps still sucks
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if all the tech companies could just get along, technology would be great.
if apple and google were friends, then apple would be able to pay for googles map services , and all would be fine. just as im sure that google could take advantage of some apple technology etc...
everybody wins.
im not saying u need to copy all each others patents such as the samsung and apple wars but...
if apple and google were friends, then apple would be able to pay for googles map services , and all would be fine. just as im sure that google could take advantage of some apple technology etc...
everybody wins.
im not saying u need to copy all each others patents such as the samsung and apple wars but...
still terrible for me. i live in a micropolitan area in the united states. the neighborhood where i live was built in 2007. it is not on the map. instead, random streets that do not exist are shown in its place. i have come to find out that there was once a trailer park on this land and those may have been the street names from back in 2004, you know, when it still existed. there are stores that closed 5 years ago on the map, and there are also stores that do exist shown anywhere from a tenth of a mile to 2+ miles off.
tl;dr version
it's awful
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in what way? certainly not in the sense that the map data is accurate. i feel like anyone who prefers apple maps is basically saying they would prefer a painting by me to Da Vinci because i used higher quality paint than Da Vinci did.
tl;dr version
it's awful
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in what way? certainly not in the sense that the map data is accurate. i feel like anyone who prefers apple maps is basically saying they would prefer a painting by me to Da Vinci because i used higher quality paint than Da Vinci did.
oh really???
like i said, addresses become clickable, without so much as even needing a city, state, or zipcode.
It also makes text like "3:00 today" clickable to easily make a calendar appointment. Nice try though.
there are lots of iSheep on the forums, I do love Apple and iOS 7 but lets be honest their maps efforts are a joke
Again, this is Manhattan. It is very common for the address to not include a space before the E. My example of the google search is just to illustrate how common this is.
"123 E43rd St" is common.
"123 East43rd St" is not.
"123E43rdSt" is a joke.
But a parser should be smart about all these cases and try its best. It should know that, in Manhattan, there is no confusing "E43rd st" with some other mythical street named "E43". This is exactly the job of the search engine.
Instead, Apple returns "no search results" because of a missing space on an obvious address in Manhattan. No suggestions, no anything.
That doesn't mean I think that all spelling mistakes should be expected to return the correct result. Only that Apple's implementation can be better and much more aware of the content.
oh really???
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like i said, addresses become clickable, without so much as even needing a city, state, or zipcode.
It also makes text like "3:00 today" clickable to easily make a calendar appointment. Nice try though.
Like I said. Parsing needs work.
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You can roll your eyes, but you are the one who called me a liar and said it doesn't work and is not a feature when in fact it is.
Like I said. Parsing needs work.
maybe you, like the other guy, need to work on using spaces in your addresses??
I mean, I don't search on google for "HowToCookLobster" I don't know why you guys type your addresses like 13345BanannaStreetDenverCO80445 or even 13345,Bananna,Street,Denver,CO,80445
I mean, I'm just saying. And even if that is how you write addresses in australia, it's pretty apparent that the search they are using is unable to figure it out, so perhaps, you should adapt and try to help yourself by helping the search out? I mean I guess you could just keep doing it the other way, never getting the results you want, and continuing to complain because that's probably easier for you....
well...it's a common "mistake." as "E 43rd" is correct.
What bothers me is that typing in "123 East 43rd St" does not take one to the correct address....talk about bad parsing.
I think you will find that was in response to your eyerolling up there.
<- Genuine eye roll
Seriously? I lived in Southern California and Google Maps was a joke when it first started off. I don't see what the big deal is with Apple Maps, if it sucks, don't use it. Google Maps is available on your iPhone, use it.
I down loaded the Google maps for iOS and found that I got wring directions a few times. So far on iOS I haven't had as many issues. IOS maps for now when using my iPhone.
Always have like Maps.
Only one time did I have a discrepancy.
I use Maps daily to log distance and time.
It Works very well, and is very, very accurate.
Only one time did I have a discrepancy.
I use Maps daily to log distance and time.
It Works very well, and is very, very accurate.
Visit the TomTom website. Notice most Apple Maps errors are TomTom errors. Use TomToms site error reporter to report errors that gives feedback on when or if your error is accepted and will be in next update or refused. Do this for each error. Watch Apple Maps improve even more quickly.
The maps tend to work awesome for me, my girlfriend has some big ole phone and that damn thing literally makes us go in circles, I am not even kidding, just happened last weekend. So we always pull out my trusty iphone.
Where are you guys from that this is happening? It works fine in San Francisco and Chicago where I normally go...
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LMAO. I wish I could like this post!
Where are you guys from that this is happening? It works fine in San Francisco and Chicago where I normally go...
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LMAO. I wish I could like this post!
Yet entering that address in every other gps system as Exx st works perfectly fine. So what are you talking about? Logical search engine lol
"I live outside the US and Apple's Maps is OK."
Only fault for me is it seems to be slower than my car, so I do miss the odd turn...
Only fault for me is it seems to be slower than my car, so I do miss the odd turn...
Just because some tech blogs made rash, snap judgements on maps when it first came out, why do people have to go on saying it sucks. Apple maps kills google in every way.
Because we're not blind and stupid?
Maps is unforgivably bad. Still. Apple has done no meaningful fixing of it's data which is junk in the UK.
