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Apple Issues Statement Over Day 1 'Maps' Glitches, Maps Team Reportedly Under Lockdown to Fix Issues

I used the maps turn-by-turn last night to go to a gig in central London. I thought it was:

Clear and quick

Voice navigation was good and easily adjusted (I was listening to a podcast)

When you switch to another app you still get your next turn highlighted across the top in a blue bar. I really liked that.

I honestly had no real problems with it, I usually use co-pilot live and found this smoother.

My only drawback is the lack of speed camera alerts. Maybe that will come in a future update.
 
ktmelvis said:
Ive now been going over the new maps for a few hours, all I can say now is, if you think it was bad, just look further, it gets even worse, people are paying alot of money for iPhones, iPads or both, just sitting there saying Apple will fix it, is not good enough, these maps are a complete disaster, and people paid tons of money.
I don't care if Apple acknowledges the problem they have no choice, not to mention a lockdown of the map team, what a pile of crap, like I said Ive been going through these maps for hours now, and my attitude has gone from somber to pissed.
When your a multi billion dollar company, you don't put out crap like this period, and you dont expect the customer to wait for fixes.
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I'm not waiting. I'll report any glaring errors by using the links in the app.
 
Since the iPhone is so far ahead of the pack in overall integration as a smartphone, the media chooses one aspect to pick on with each new model - - the antenna, Siri, and now Maps.

As history proves, these petty attempts at bullying all fail in the face of Apple's persistence in improving any weak spots up to the exemplary level of the whole iPhone experience.
 
Macist said:
Looking at the streets around my home it'd take me days to report the errors.
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That time was spent reporting errors with TOWNS and I've only scratched the surface!

Hardly any of the towns in the West Midlands are labeled and the ones that are aren't in the right places. It's not worth worrying about street names when the town itself is seven miles away from where it should be. :)
 
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A huge step in the wrong direction

1) the maps are newer than googles - but the resolution is ALOT worse like 1/4 when you go 3 miles outside the center of the capital of Denmark (Copenhagen) that is just awfull.
2) the linking of addresses to the coordinates are like 200 meters off to the west in the city were i live.
 
bobob said:
Since the iPhone is so far ahead of the pack in overall integration as a smartphone, the media chooses one aspect to pick on with each new model - - the antenna, Siri, and now Maps.
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Get over yourself. This isn't the media in here complaining. It's entire countries of users who no longer have a functioning map app.
 
OllyW said:
I spent a hour last night reporting errors I found in the maps local to me and it'll be interesting to see how long it takes for them to fix it.

Days, weeks, months or years? We shall see.
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If the responsible is TomTom (Teleatlas) you can wait :p

I notified last year a problem in my street nad I'm still waiting
 
TheHeadFL said:
I really don't understand all this hyperventilating.

I updated to iOS6 and I've been browsing the Maps app for the last few hours and looking around my usual places, as well as places I'll be travelling soon, and the data is mostly pretty good.

Its clear that there are some areas, particularly internationally, that are quite bad. But this is far from 'most' places.
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I hate to break this to you, but internationally actually is 'most' places.

And hence most of iOS6 Maps are broken.

I'd suggest that in the UK, which IIRC is Apple's third biggest English speaking market by revenue, the majority of the map data is faulty. This is not a quick fix - they are effectively going to have to scrap their entire database and start again.

I'd say from experience Google Maps was 98% accurate. At the moment Apple Maps in the UK are about 40% accurate, and the size of the problem means they will need about four years to get them to 90% accurate.

So four years from now they'll still cock up just under one in ten more queries than Google, assuming Google shows no improvement. Which is unlikely.

This is a disaster.
 
bobob said:
As if Google Maps on iPhone was fully functioning...
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It wasn't perfect, but it was a helluva lot more functional than what we've now got.

It should've stayed in the shop for another year or so at least. I mean there wasn't any hugely pressing need for Apple to replace Google's offering ASAP. They have no excuse for forcing their currently half baked alternative on us so early.
 
I hope Apple stick with this and commit a load of resources to it because the maps app is nice and easy to use, and competition in mapping will be a good thing. It does seem to update much quicker when zooming than google maps, probably because its all vector based so the data transfer is minimal. The problems all seem to be with the cloud based side of it. The searches give pretty poor results at the moment and there are a lot of inaccuracies in the maps in some areas and a lot of things missing at the moment too. In London it looks pretty accurate at least the bits I have looked at so far but other parts of the UK are currently a mess. I hope they have a small army of people working to correct this because its going to need it. I think in a few months they should have sorted a lot of it out, it has the potential to be very good but need a lot of work.
 
The labelling of the UK road network is appalling.

Only roads shown in yellow are numbered. These roads consist of the majority of the UK motorway network, plus some seemingly random sections of other major routes. Every other road is shown in white, and unlabelled. The oddest case is the A505 between Luton and Hitchen - the central section is labelled in yellow, and hence numbered, whilst the remaining part appears to be a narrow country lane.

Even in the case of motorways there's another major problem - the junction numbers aren't there.
 
I think the only way that this is getting fixed any time soon is in Apple paying for better data. I don't really understand how they've messed up in this way - it's almost like they purchased the bargain basement 2003 map pack or something.

It's not like Google are the only people with decent map data, I use the CoPilot live app and that doesn't seem to suffer from these problems of outdated maps.

The app itself seems really nice and slick compared to the Google one, but it's a little like playing Pro Evo when you look at some of the place names in my area. There are 2 nearby towns where they've taken small areas of that town and used it as the main name, and my own town seems to have completely the wrong name.

I also noticed that a nearby place still has a Woolworths, which all went out of business amid much publicity several years ago!
 
bobob said:
Since the iPhone is so far ahead of the pack in overall integration as a smartphone, the media chooses one aspect to pick on with each new model - - the antenna, Siri, and now Maps.
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The difference is that there was no antenna problem (if you look at the numbers), and Siri was a new feature.

Here we have a real actual problem - the removal of a feature that has been in the phone for years.

That is something worth picking on...
 
JQW said:
The labelling of the UK road network is appalling.

Only roads shown in yellow are numbered. These roads consist of the majority of the UK motorway network, plus some seemingly random sections of other major routes. Every other road is shown in white, and unlabelled. The oddest case is the A505 between Luton and Hitchen - the central section is labelled in yellow, and hence numbered, whilst the remaining part appears to be a narrow country lane.

Even in the case of motorways there's another major problem - the junction numbers aren't there.
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Indeed. This App is supposed to add one thing that Google's didn't have - turn-by-turn navigation. Because the road's are either mislabelled or not labelled at all, you can't use it for navigation.

Useless!
 
Ok everybody, lets all get our ipads and iphones then go walking through our neighborhoods and facetime it all live to cupertino this way we can have some kind of street view.
 
bobob said:
Since the iPhone is so far ahead of the pack in overall integration as a smartphone, the media chooses one aspect to pick on with each new model - - the antenna, Siri, and now Maps.

As history proves, these petty attempts at bullying all fail in the face of Apple's persistence in improving any weak spots up to the exemplary level of the whole iPhone experience.
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wtf? are you for real??

you need to get out and stop reading apple fan forums
 
everything-i said:
I hope Apple stick with this and commit a load of resources to it because the maps app is nice and easy to use, and competition in mapping will be a good thing. It does seem to update much quicker when zooming than google maps, probably because its all vector based so the data transfer is minimal.
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Google Maps on Android had vector maps for you a long time now (and many, many other cool features like offline maps, indoor maps, bike routes etc.), so if Google are working on a native map app then this might be incorporated there.
 
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