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Apple Launches 'Surveyor' App for Apple Maps Data Collection
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It would be great if Maps had one more mode...Explore, Driving, Transit, Satellite, & Track. Track would show on the map where I've been, for how long, and what transpired with my iPhone at the various locations. Smartphones are tracking us in various ways. I would like to see it in Maps.
Android has a 70% global market share and I’m willing to bet a large minority of iOS users probably use Goggle Maps too. We should expect there to be many more cases involving Google Maps.
Good to know about it. Would have been even better if all users could contribute to improving the maps.
They ask customers because it Is free... when a company is greed in the DNA... they push customers to.work for free... and they are happy too because they feel "to be part of something"...
Help for free a charity in your area, not a greed company!
Maybe the app needs a better camera and maybe lidar, both things the iPad mini doesn’t have.
So your main complaint is that they only support iPhone and not the iPad mini?
They already sold people on camera phones worth a grand, might as well put them to use
Yeah I prefer Apple Maps and it’s integration with CarPlay, but there have been many times where it isn’t aware of businesses that have been around for years forcing me to go to Google Maps that always ends up having that information.
It’s also told me to make U-turns where illegal or not even possible multiple times.
Well if it’s support the iPhone SE… it can support the mini… I just don’t like apple is releasing exclusive iPhone apps…
Apple Maps.
Hm.
OK.
I still cannot get an answer to my simple question...
Can somebody please explain to me how to manually choose two different points on the map? Both start and end?
I need to check for example how long it is going to take me to walk/cycle from one point to another - how do I do this? I couldn't find a way.
And if it really is as it is, then this must be the dumbest map app ever.
Thanks for any help.
And meanwhile check the app Mapy.cz.
Hm.
OK.
I still cannot get an answer to my simple question...
Can somebody please explain to me how to manually choose two different points on the map? Both start and end?
I need to check for example how long it is going to take me to walk/cycle from one point to another - how do I do this? I couldn't find a way.
And if it really is as it is, then this must be the dumbest map app ever.
Thanks for any help.
And meanwhile check the app Mapy.cz.
So, you would have liked Apple to release an iPad version for the off chance somebody wants to use this with an iPad mini? Who isn’t you, btw, even though you like to complain about it. Wow.
Here we have one clear example of Apple having reasonable priorities regarding what to support on what devices and I just found the nay sayer.
I mean it’s just a button in xcode lol (you select if yes or no it’s compatible with ipad)
Where's this actually available? UK store 'not in your region'. 🤷♂️
What are the rewards?
I don’t understand this app… it’s a 4+ years old app but it seams you need to have 18 years old… False advertising on the App Store !
Only US store. You'll pay more money to Tim Apple to make him happy. That's the reward for you. 😂
That's a typical "appoligist" approach:
--> I have taken some flights in the recent years and they don't crash
That a flight doesn't crash it's the bare minimum se have to expect as quality delivered. At the same way that a map software brings you at the correct address and not at the wrong one should be the first quality test to approve the go in production instead than a "feature".
So tell me what fault you find in the current version of Apple Maps? Most folks are saying the reviews section stinks. Others point to a lack of points of interest data. You find fault with having a defect fixed.🙄
It works now. That is what matters.
Nobody cares that Excel was once vastly inferior to Lotus 1-2-3. What I hate about Excel now is that the Mac version is inferior to the Windows version.
It's city dependent. Apple has long had its own reviews system but if your city has fewer iPhones or people aren't leaving reviews, then it defaults to third party apps like Yelp, OpenTable, Lonely Planet, etc.
I started adding reviews to every place I went and at one point, I just stopped seeing Yelp because it caught on in Toronto. So it's a chicken and egg thing. If you don't review locations in Apple Maps, then it'll continue to be Yelp.
When you rate through Apple Maps, it pulls up your pictures from that location and suggests you add them. Makes it super easy to rate a place with photos.
Like you, I hate Yelp with the heat of a thousand suns, but I didn't ignore it, I set out to do something about it and left reviews and encouraged others to do the same.
I do like how Apple pulls info from relevant third parties if there aren't enough native reviews.
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