You must be joking. It will take them 50 years to map Dutch cycle lanes with that tempo of theirs! Seriously, why can't they use Openstreetmap data is beyond me.
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Apple Expands Revamped Apple Maps Experience to New Countries
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I use only Apple Maps in car. Much better than google. Better routings. Better traffic info.
Google make mistakes also. Google car routing is a joke.
Dedicated bike lanes in addition to streets, then marrying that data to provide proper directions?
Just because you don't know how to do it, doesn't mean it isn't there. Apple will even recognize that you DIDN'T follow its suggested route at that specific point so it makes it easier for you to find and correct. Simply tap on your profile and go into the route and report it there where it is marked (or any other step in the route you feel could be improved/corrected).
They do...it is literally right at the top of their acknowledged data providers.
To everyone complaining about biking features lacking... I guess you'll have to stop pretending to be 7 years old and go buy a car like an adult.
Good to see Maps expanding. Hopefully it covers even more regions soon.
Enjoy! Just pay attention to the real speed signs if you drive, as the ones displayed in Apple Maps are not so accurate yet. Otherwise they look and work great and have a Look Around enabled everywhere in France now. The public transit directions are very good too.
Justin thinks that you will be next on the list. 🖐
After expanding to France, Monaco, and New Zealand, Apple is likeliest to expand next to the Benelux countries (Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg).
Apple’s New Map, Expansion #15: France, Monaco, & New Zealand
www.justinobeirne.com
I dropped google maps around ten years ago. Zero issues with Apple Maps.
No, it does not. Neither does Google Maps, though. Out of the “big three” only Waze does.
do you want them to give up? if apple didn't do this, google wouldn't even bother updating new features.
Except the netherlands, which should be getting cycling directions as soon as they release the new maps here. It's very easy to add for Apple, since you can basically cycle everywhere except on highways
I wish they would just add it to more areas in this country. It'll be 2035 before Kentucky gets this.
Geeze. That’s in an obscure place. It makes more sense to report it whilst on the route. Nevertheless, done. Thank you.
Still a downgrade from previous version.
Well, think about it this way (and is usually the key driver for design features like this in Apple Maps), Apple avoids at all costs, designing any interface that requires you to stop looking where you are going while routing (even walking). They defer to Siri whenever possible or, as it is in this case, make it as easy as possible to make the correction after the route is complete.
BUT....you really need to do it right after your route is complete as ANY route you look up or take will show up in the list and can easily get lost in the shuffle. But it does work....
I do wish Apple would let us make google maps our default map, that’s all really.
Openstreetmaps has it for more locations than Apple.
I use Magic Earth but it’s a bit rough around the edges and I can’t use it as the default app unfortunately. but it does show speed cams.
Very good update!
I live in France, and my city is very well mapped now - and we have Apple’s answer to Street View now!
3D buildings feature was there before but it still is super useful in the medieval centre of the city where it’s rather complicated to understand your surrounding from just the flat map.
Of course no cycling directions still… and that’s in one of the most cycling friendly cities in France. Boo.
Lately it feels like I’m using Apple Maps more and more - and it helps that Google Maps dropped the ball big time in my area (public transport support either nonexistent or really basic, no overlaying transit line map, huge numbers of bus stops just disappeared, etc).
I live in France, and my city is very well mapped now - and we have Apple’s answer to Street View now!
3D buildings feature was there before but it still is super useful in the medieval centre of the city where it’s rather complicated to understand your surrounding from just the flat map.
Of course no cycling directions still… and that’s in one of the most cycling friendly cities in France. Boo.
Lately it feels like I’m using Apple Maps more and more - and it helps that Google Maps dropped the ball big time in my area (public transport support either nonexistent or really basic, no overlaying transit line map, huge numbers of bus stops just disappeared, etc).
That inspired me to check the walking route near me. Apple Maps is correct, sending you down a walking track. Google Maps sends you down a car-only road. The track used to be shown on Google Maps but no longer is, but previously if you dragged the route onto the track (to force it to take it) then it added a ~3 km deviation to the route.
In other words, Apple wins this particular battle.