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Apple Maps Now Available on the Web
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same here. guess the idea to make Apple Map available on web is to open it to public for crowdsourcing.
While Apple Map is good at navigation and better layouts, it has been far behind Google Map in POI supports and merchant info and reviews.
with crowdsourcing, i am expecting Apple Map will catch up sooner or later.
yes. for now it looks like not much different from accessing it from duckduckgo.
however, according to the apple 's announcement, the map will add more features in the forthcoming months, e.g. look around. i am expecting the web map layouts should be revamped to be inline with those seen in mac/ios.
it looks like a positive move... heading to support crowdsourcing, i guess.
right. it looks like they are moving to support crowdsourcing, hence making it open to web...
Yes, I’m aware of OpenStreetMap. I was talking specifically about Apple Maps in this case. While it’s currently possible to submit edits via the iOS app, if/when they enable editing through the web, I think crowdsourcing for POI info for Apple Maps will see higher awareness and adoption.
I'd argue that if someone wants to contribute (as a community) it should be done via OMS... or Apple/Google should be forced to give back to OMS (which data they use) but we know that won't happen as they are focused on own "product"...
I used Apple Maps a lot throughout Spain a few years ago and it worked quite well. Also in part of the UK earlier this year, I used it for transit and it totally got me where I was going. I'm sure it varies country to country though.I don't know, it still seems pretty much useless here in Europe. At least compared to other options.
If you walk or bike or ski - Mapy.cz
If you drive - Waze.
At least for me.
In my experience, same caveats as in the US: good for transit, good for navigation in general -- but less current and thorough place data than Google Maps.
I'm sure Waze is good for driving, but the ad-infested interface is horrible and I just never touch it.
I still hope they buy up a good, current database.
Crowdsourcing is great, but quality can really vary. I mean, I submitted my town's library hours carefully and they updated them, which was great -- but I could just as easily have done it wrong. Did they have someone on their end go onto the library's website and verify? I doubt that!
Not surprising. If you're on an iPhone you have the full app right there.
I’m surprised UK haven’t got the cycle option yet? Here in Norway it was recently introduced and UK usually get all things Apple much earlier than here.
It was the last thing that I used Google Maps for. I try occasionally OSM but there are too many stupid and fake information there, especially when I go abroad. I tried also their bicycle overlay, but it seemed to be high jacked by some Ukraine vs Russia groups, and totally destroyed.
I see that Apple Maps have got more points of interest added in and roads and businesses are more up to date. But the same is also that more and more noise and fakes have popped up.
Google Maps have mostly stale data.
I used to like OSM, but I realise that we don’t really deserve nice things!
Useless. Lack of detail.
My test case is Varenna, Italia (on Lago Como) because many of the passageways are not streets.
Apple maps on the web shows nothing.
My test case is Varenna, Italia (on Lago Como) because many of the passageways are not streets.
Apple maps on the web shows nothing.
Different browsers can use different rendering engines (Blink, WebKit, Gecko, etc.) and have different web development requirements. It appears Apple chose to initially (in beta) focus on the most popular browsers/engines. Firefox's global desktop browser market share is only around 6% to 7%.
I assume Maps will eventually work on Firefox, though.
Remember when the first iPhone came out, and there wasn't an App Store, and the idea was everyone would just use PWAs? (Link to Youtube excerpt of June 2007 presentation by Steve Jobs) But then they built one after all, and the App Store came out, and they started raking in fees. And now, "...with the second beta of iOS 17.4, Apple disabled much of the functionality of Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) in the European Union. iPhone users in the European Union can access websites directly from the Home Screen through a bookmark, but PWA features won't be available." (Link to a Natively blog. An actual developer will need to confirm if this is still the case, but the intent looks suspicious even if they reverted).
Since Google has put ads in their maps, maybe Apple has decided it's worth developing theirs as a general PWA as well. If so, that might even explain why they're not rushing to add Firefox support, given the extra ad-blocking you can make it do with addons. Meanwhile, DDG pays for their API use, and it just works.
A lot of people don't trust Google much. And also many of their maps kind of look like crap next to Apple's.
I think this is pretty representative. Google's map has more business info, which is clearly their strength, but the map itself is ugly, cluttered, and is missing a lot of detail that Apple has.
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That has not been my experience. A few months ago I noticed that a small coffee shop was listed in the wrong location within a shopping center on both Google Maps and Apple Maps. Apple also has it listed as Permanently Closed, which it certainly is not. I submitted corrections to both at that time. I got a canned reply from Google thanking me for the submission, and a week or two later I got another message that they had fixed it. I checked and confirmed.
I have heard nothing from Apple and the errors are still present. I have no connection to the shop except as a customer, but Apple is doing harm to a small business by incorrectly listing it as closed and refusing to correct the error when notified.
Yeah that's not great. I have always gotten a response in like a week or two at most. Weird.
Ideally the business itself would use Apple's form to claim the business, but I don't think a lot of them have Apple Maps on their radar at all (aside from just being busy running their shop).
If you zoom in closer you get more details than what apple has lmao
That long ago? I must be misremembering the timeline. I didn't try to go full cold turkey (except for mail*) off Google until recently so I was still generally looking stuff up using their Maps on my phone. Now I look up directions a lot more in a browser.
*off-topic for this thread, but I'm definitely becoming interested in just paying Proton or someone for domain mail. Possibly even Apple.