I rarely use Apple maps because it hardly ever finds what I'm looking for. However, it's unfortunately integrated with macOS, so when you click on an address in a calendar appointment or contact, it opens Apple Maps.
Just now I had a baffling experience.
I entered the address "Rózsa utca, Budapest". In Hungary, everyone knows where this is, it's an obvious, famous road. There are other roads in Budapest with the same name, but if you just say "Rózsa utca", this is definitely the one you mean.
Now Apple Maps gives me this:
Which is some small street far from the city center. Why this one in particular? At least offer me a list of roads with the same name, if you aren't going to default to the most popular one.
So then I think, fair enough, I need to tell it the district to be precise. So I tell it "district 6", which in Hungarian is "6. kerület". Instead, it brings me "Rózsa utca 6", in district 4. Like seriously. I even gave it the district (which you never have to do with Google Maps) and it got it wrong:
So then I wonder, what would Google Maps do? I'm particularly unfair here because all I tell Google Maps is "Rózsa u". I don't tell it the country, the city, the district, and I even abbreviate "utca" to just "u". And BAM. It finds it instantly on the first try.
What exactly is Apple doing to improve Maps? It can't even find a freaking street when you spoon feed it, it's ridiculous. It has been like this ever since launch and they aren't improving. What exactly are they hoping to achieve? Maybe it will just gain artificial intelligence and fix itself one day, or what?
Just now I had a baffling experience.
I entered the address "Rózsa utca, Budapest". In Hungary, everyone knows where this is, it's an obvious, famous road. There are other roads in Budapest with the same name, but if you just say "Rózsa utca", this is definitely the one you mean.
Now Apple Maps gives me this:
Which is some small street far from the city center. Why this one in particular? At least offer me a list of roads with the same name, if you aren't going to default to the most popular one.
So then I think, fair enough, I need to tell it the district to be precise. So I tell it "district 6", which in Hungarian is "6. kerület". Instead, it brings me "Rózsa utca 6", in district 4. Like seriously. I even gave it the district (which you never have to do with Google Maps) and it got it wrong:
So then I wonder, what would Google Maps do? I'm particularly unfair here because all I tell Google Maps is "Rózsa u". I don't tell it the country, the city, the district, and I even abbreviate "utca" to just "u". And BAM. It finds it instantly on the first try.
What exactly is Apple doing to improve Maps? It can't even find a freaking street when you spoon feed it, it's ridiculous. It has been like this ever since launch and they aren't improving. What exactly are they hoping to achieve? Maybe it will just gain artificial intelligence and fix itself one day, or what?
