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Apple Maps don't suck! (merged)

Hard to forgive Apple for removing Google maps

Apple became what it is today by focusing on delivering a better product, all be it a premium price. People were willing to pay for a better product and they got big and rich.

Apple Maps has some good graphics and sometimes good satellite images. It is also incomplete, inaccurate in parts and has no public transit info. If it had launched the maps as a beta product leaving Google in place that would have been fair. Letting users decide which is best. But they did not - forcing upon the public a worse product. Is this going to be the way of the future - big company politics winning over product design?

For me, I travel a bit and one of the best things with Google maps was that you could immediately tie in with local public transport to get to where you needed to go. Its a big disappointment that this feature is not there, and there seems little indication that it will ever be there. If you live in the UK being directed to the New York or San Francisco bus apps is not much help. I also don't want to have to download a different app for each city or region I visit I want it integrated. For Apple to have entered into competition as to who could do the best maps would have been excellent. Instead for Apple to remove Google, and it is rumoured, go slow on any new Google map apps approval is hard to forgive.
 
germanjulian said:
It does suck. When I search for small businesses they do not show up, when I search for a few major points or interest (like the IMAX cinema) the location is totally wrong.... this is in London!

I don't care about the 3D flyover... I want an accurate detailed map not 3D flyover.
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This.

3D maps look nice, but they don't really have much use. Who really uses them to navigate? It's much more efficient looking at a flat map without buildings in the way.

Basically 3D maps is a gimmick, it looks impressive but it's not that helpful in my opinion.
 
Andy-V said:
Could you specify some examples? Satellite imagery wise, everything I've seen is universally worse.
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Phil A. said:
Have you got an example? I live in the middle of the countryside and Google had both Street view past my house and satellite imagery that was so clear I could see my car on it. The satellite view on Apple's maps is a big blob of colour
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One example is Lymington, UK.
 
I'd rather have something that gets the directions right than something that has 3D images. Just saying.
 
smacman said:
Apple Maps are the best. Anything Apple does is excellent. For those complaining about lack of transit data, you are a poor scoundrels that can't afford a car. Apple doesn't care about you anyway.

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Your pictures perfectly capture the problem with Apple's maps... lack of detail. The switch from Google maps resulted in the loss of the terrain layer, omission of streams, and other smaller bodies of water, parks, delineations for shopping centers, college campus', etc., labeled buildings and the inability to display road names unless zoomed all the way in, and more. In short, the utility of Apple maps is significantly lower than what it replaced.
 
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Photogdave said:
Hell, Google built Android how many years ago and still to this damn day, even on Android devices, Google Maps wont do turn by turn and it has no integration like new Maps.
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your totally wrong. Google maps has had turn by turn navigation for 3 years

also has voice search

traffic widgets come free with google maps for your home screen so you dont even need to open maps to see what the traffic is like.
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google maps is fully intergrated into the web browser- highlight an address on a web page and you can open it with google maps.

you need to get out your apple bubble once in a while :rolleyes:
 
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Its people bitching because they live in bum**** nowhere or that the level of detail at certain zoom levels isn't identical.
 
ThisIsNotMe said:
Its people bitching because they live in bum**** nowhere or that the level of detail at certain zoom levels isn't identical.
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767 5th Ave New York New York 10153 United States

That's the address for Apple's famous all glass store. It's in the center of Manhattan, not the middle of nowhere, and feel free to zoom as close or as far as you want.

There is no gas station there.


That's in the middle of a MAJOR city and it's Apple's own location...something that one would think they'd make sure they got correct.
 
cyks said:
767 5th Ave New York New York 10153 United States

That's the address for Apple's famous all glass store. It's in the center of Manhattan, not the middle of nowhere, and feel free to zoom as close or as far as you want.

There is no gas station there.


That's in the middle of a MAJOR city and it's Apple's own location...something that one would think they'd make sure they got correct.
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Oh my god, you're so right! How could they have done such a... wait...

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Nope. You're wrong.
 
cyks said:
That's why I posted the image of Apple's world famous store in NYC. One would think that, after making all the headlines and renovating it last year, they would at least have it's local area correctly labeled.

Needless to say, there are plenty of problems in major cities in the US... and, if they're that bad here, I can't imagine what the rest of the world is dealing with.
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Google's listings are wrong in the same way.

What you are seeing is the business listed at that address, which is the address for that building. Google also lists a finance company right on top of the Apple store.

Having said that, Yelp really needs to allow for a "corporate office" category. No excuse for listing that business as a gas station.
 
cyks said:
767 5th Ave New York New York 10153 United States

That's the address for Apple's famous all glass store. It's in the center of Manhattan, not the middle of nowhere, and feel free to zoom as close or as far as you want.

There is no gas station there.


That's in the middle of a MAJOR city and it's Apple's own location...something that one would think they'd make sure they got correct.
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It's because of the address of the building. Yelp doesn't have a "general office" or "corporate" category. The company is a fuel company, just not a gas *station*.

BTW, here is Google's (note that both businesses icons are not correct: FAO is supposed to be in the bottom of this image).

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B777Forevar said:
Apple maps doesn't suck if you live in a major city. But for the peeps who live in small towns, they are screwed.
Apple should have "matured" their maps program before bundling it with iOS6.
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Guess London (UK, capital, 8 million population) has been downgraded to smaller town, just lost the 2x tube stations outside of the BBC in WhiteCity, good news is that its been replaced by one train station of some sort... not sure where this train line goes though... Hold that, I think we lost parts of the BBC also...

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Brazuca said:
It's because of the address of the building. Yelp doesn't have a "general office" or "corporate" category. The company is a fuel company, just not a gas *station*.

BTW, here is Google's (note that both businesses icons are not correct: FAO is supposed to be in the bottom of this image).

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yeah but the fuel symbol is suppose to indicate you can fuel up your car there right. As long as they sell you a barrel of fuel when you get there, all cool! Though, you will have to park somewhere else and roll that barrel to your car....
 
matttye said:
Did that two days ago, not fixed yet. When my errors are fixed I'll stop bitching about those errors.
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Do you really believe someone at Apple is standing by waiting to fix your personal problems with your apps?

They have millions of customers to look after and can only work on a handful of reported problems of which the ones most reported have priority.
 
Macaroony said:
Do you really believe someone at Apple is standing by waiting to fix your personal problems with your apps?

They have millions of customers to look after and can only work on a handful of reported problems of which the ones most reported have priority.
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No because you'd need a whole subdivision to fix the problems I've found; there are a lot.
 
Here's my anecdotal experience so far: perfect.

I tried 20 different addresses I know, scattered across various cities/suburbs/rural areas in the US, Australia, and Europe. Each was tagged perfectly. One of which Google Maps has historically had a bit of a hard time getting right.

I tried about 15 businesses. Three have opened in the last month. All found fine.

I tried driving directions to various places - parks in my area, etc. all were fine.

In the places where there are 3d buildings, I was surprised how accurate they were, beating similar feature from Bing Maps.

My one complaint was that in a few areas the resolution of some maps wasn't great, though I periodically see similar problems with Google Maps.

So for me, so far, it seems pretty good. But that's just me.
 
Ripcord said:
Here's my anecdotal experience so far: perfect.

I tried 20 different addresses I know, scattered across various cities/suburbs/rural areas in the US, Australia, and Europe. Each was tagged perfectly. One of which Google Maps has historically had a bit of a hard time getting right.

I tried about 15 businesses. Three have opened in the last month. All found fine.

I tried driving directions to various places - parks in my area, etc. all were fine.

In the places where there are 3d buildings, I was surprised how accurate they were, beating similar feature from Bing Maps.

My one complaint was that in a few areas the resolution of some maps wasn't great, though I periodically see similar problems with Google Maps.

So for me, so far, it seems pretty good. But that's just me.
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I haven't had any problems either, outside of a small detail in the address on a pin (but not the pin itself, go figure). I went to look for the "business" in Yelp, and it had about 7 duplicates, all with different locations in a 4 block radius (go look in Yelp for the United Nations in NY). But Apple Maps had it in the right place.

I submitted the error report to Apple and the duplicate report to Yelp.

I'm very curious to see how quickly they do it. My estimate: never.
 
TheRainKing said:
This.

3D maps look nice, but they don't really have much use. Who really uses them to navigate? It's much more efficient looking at a flat map without buildings in the way.

Basically 3D maps is a gimmick, it looks impressive but it's not that helpful in my opinion.
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Again, novelty < practicality
 
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