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Apple Fixes Australian Map Error That Caused Police Warning, Issue Traced to Official Gazetteer

coolspot18 said:
Why in the world did Apple ditch Google Maps? Was it a case of "Not Invented Here Syndrome?"

Seriously strange - I mean does Apple have a YouTube site, a Facebook clone, or what else? It's strange that they decided to ditch Google Maps.

Or why not just purchase a company like Garmin?
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Are you just totally uninformed? Seriously, ALL of your questions were answered IN DEPTH multiple times. Stop being lazy.
 
KnightWRX said:
It's now been 6 months since people have started reporting problems with Apple maps. How much of it has really been fixed ? Take that, times 2 and you have Maps in 12 months.

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Are you serious??? You believe that for all errors Apple is correcting one piece of incorrect data at a time, as opposed to a systems approach?
 
mccldwll said:
BuckusToothnail said:
As I mentioned in another thread, I've submitted at LEAST a couple of dozen corrections to Maps the past few months since I got my iPhone 5 and NONE have been updated yet. And reading other people's post it doesn't seem my experience is uncommon.

In comparison the few times I needed to send a correction to Google Maps, all POI-related like a store having moved or being on the wrong side of the street, it was usually fixed within a couple of weeks.
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The difference between the two is the amount of mapping data that needs to be fixed. With the large amount of fixes Apple needs in the database, I could see it taking a year or more before they get to the corrections you submitted.
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mccldwll said:
Are you serious??? You believe that for all errors Apple is correcting one piece of incorrect data at a time, as opposed to a systems approach?
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Have they given any hint of a massive incoming update ? (No they haven't). Thus why cling to the hope that they'll just make it "better" in one fell swoop and be horribly disappointed when it doesn't happen ?

No, the only thing we can measure is the fixes applied since WWDC's intro of the feature and the subsequent developer builds to today and then use that has a basis for a comparison of how the product will progress.

We can revisit this in a few months and see if the metrics are still are correct or if Apple has improved their response times or found glaring "system-wide" problems that permits mass fixes in a short time frame then and be happily surprised they did instead of horribly disappointed if they didn't.

I'm a pragmatic, sorry. I hate building myself up for disappointement. I'd rather prepare for the worst.
 
coolspot18 said:
Why in the world did Apple ditch Google Maps? Was it a case of "Not Invented Here Syndrome?"

Seriously strange - I mean does Apple have a YouTube site, a Facebook clone, or what else? It's strange that they decided to ditch Google Maps.

Or why not just purchase a company like Garmin?
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Their contract with Google expired, and Google just assumed that Apple was going to come crawling back to them. This was not the case.
 
XboxMySocks said:
Their contract with Google expired, and Google just assumed that Apple was going to come crawling back to them. This was not the case.
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Rather than crawling back to Google, dug itself deep into a foxhole. Now Google is having the last laugh. BTW contract expires next year. Also, Apple still uses Google Maps for non-mobile version of Find my iPhone.
 
If Apple admits they "screwed up" with Apple Maps, then why are they still shipping it? And what exact measures have they taken to remedy this "screw up".
 
johngordon said:
This is something I've wondered - its not as though TomTom are an unknown in the industry. They may not be top of the pile, but they've been a big player in the satnav industry for a good while, so it is kind of weird that their data has been as bad as this.
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It's not a problem with Tom Tom, it's Apple's tremendously bad data processing that turned good data into hilariously bad data. Mildura correctly shows up on Tom Tom devices. Apple has no clue about data processing.
 
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Deja vu

Apple maps definitely has some teething issues however I do remember Google maps not being so great and unreliable to use back when I got the iPhone 3G in 2008. As a matter of fact I stopped using it.

If the iPhone back then had the customer base it does now I bet Google Maps would be damned just as much...
 
KnightWRX said:
Have they given any hint of a massive incoming update ? (No they haven't). Thus why cling to the hope that they'll just make it "better" in one fell swoop and be horribly disappointed when it doesn't happen ?

No, the only thing we can measure is the fixes applied since WWDC's intro of the feature and the subsequent developer builds to today and then use that has a basis for a comparison of how the product will progress.

We can revisit this in a few months and see if the metrics are still are correct or if Apple has improved their response times or found glaring "system-wide" problems that permits mass fixes in a short time frame then and be happily surprised they did instead of horribly disappointed if they didn't.

I'm a pragmatic, sorry. I hate building myself up for disappointement. I'd rather prepare for the worst.
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Prepare for the worst or predict the worst, with no basis? Not even a company as bad a RIM would go around correcting one error at a time. Some errors, yes, but the vast majority would be by changing the way data is analyzed and cross-referenced. [For example, that early ad by I believe it was Motorola where Maps supposedly couldn't correctly find an address in NYC. it turned out that specific numerical address didn't actually exist on the target city block which was a vacant lot, so Maps found that specific address some distance away. Obviously, individuals can't go around creating data points for non-existent addresses, so a systems approach would analyze immediately surrounding known existing addresses, and provide the interpolation as an alternative destination.]
 
350TX said:
Apple maps definitely has some teething issues however I do remember Google maps not being so great and unreliable to use back when I got the iPhone 3G in 2008. As a matter of fact I stopped using it.

If the iPhone back then had the customer base it does now I bet Google Maps would be damned just as much...
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But we're not living in 2008 anymore. Technology and mapping data has advanced considerably during this time period. But, for some reason, Apple is expecting us to accept standards based on 2008.
 
KnightWRX said:
It's now been 6 months since people have started reporting problems with Apple maps. How much of it has really been fixed ? Take that, times 2 and you have Maps in 12 months.

Again folks : It's not that Apple's maps are the only ones with mistakes, it's both the sheer amount of mistakes and the fact that the competition have much better products on the market, products Apple used to provide to its customers and now yanked with the latest OS update.
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Actually, consider that Apple isn't fixing streets then rushing the fixes to the public. If you hadn't noticed, apple likes to do keynotes and presentations to the public when they do something big. Expect an announcement and Maps 2.0 or something like that with a years worth of fixes included.
 
It's still showing in the wrong place and giving wrong directions on my iPhone.
 
Honestly, if you get lost as a result of Apple maps can you not just use another app or the mobile version of google maps to get you out of wherever you ended up?
 
kas23 said:
But we're not living in 2008 anymore. Technology and mapping data has advanced considerably during this time period. But, for some reason, Apple is expecting us to accept standards based on 2008.
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But mapping data is not shared freely between competitors. Its owned and controlled by its prospective company.
 
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