I deleted Maps and Music from my phone to prevent CarPlay from activating them instead of Waze and Spotify. Every year, I give them another chance when they're updated (next year will be no exception). Who knows, now that they're de-Iveing their hardware, maybe they'll de-Cue their services...
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Apple Maps Revamp Rolls Out Widely in Western and Midwestern United States
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I deleted Maps and Music from my phone to prevent CarPlay from activating them instead of Waze and Spotify. Every year, I give them another chance when they're updated (next year will be no exception). Who knows, now that they're de-Iveing their hardware, maybe they'll de-Cue their services...
What the hell happened here. I voice dictated an entire reply and only noticed later when i came back that it just kept repeating the same two sentences. Why Siri. Whyyyyy
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So Apple just completely changed the shape the Michigan's Upper Peninsula? Nice Update.
It is definitely location dependent. Apple Maps has been slowly getting better over the past few years. When I first started using it on my first iPhone, it would frequently take me to the wrong location. I would put in a business address (and double check that I had the correct address) then Apple Maps would lead me to an open field about 1 mile outside of town. It has gotten a LOT better since those days. The only issue I've really had in the past year was once when I was trying to get on an Interstate and Apple Maps led me to an Interstate overpass and wanted me to take a non-existent onramp to get on the Interstate.
I am happy for the upgrades and look forward to the maps continuing to get better and more useful.
Detailed maps are beautiful.
Are map upgrades coming to Canadian cities?
Do Apple people walk between downtown buildings to map these intertwined routes?
it would be cool to see security camera feeds in Apple maps. Tap on the little camera icon and see the feed.
Are map upgrades coming to Canadian cities?
Do Apple people walk between downtown buildings to map these intertwined routes?
it would be cool to see security camera feeds in Apple maps. Tap on the little camera icon and see the feed.
For the UK I'm seeing edits made very quickly these days when I report Incorrect locations, Closed Locations, Addition of a location etc.
Usually within a day or so, when it used to be weeks, or sometimes you were ignored completely.
Usually within a day or so, when it used to be weeks, or sometimes you were ignored completely.
I see you're in Arizona like I am and I'm very familiar with that intersection you cited. Like you, I don't have much confidence in Apple Maps as it still provides me with incorrect directions to two separate and different locations. I have reported it on numerous occasions but it still hasn't been fixed. I even reported it via the Maps Escalations email and still nothing.
I live out in the West Valley and it constantly gives me wrong directions to BlueSky Airport parking. The directions insist that I take SR-51 (incorrect) from the I-10 rather than SR-202 (correct). A couple months ago on the way to the airport, I used Apple Maps and was almost late for my flight using those directions and that was during early morning rush hour traffic.
For the second location, asking Apple Maps for directions to a doctor's office (Arizona Digestive Health), the directions insist that I go a street over and go through someone's house, jump their back wall, just to get to the doctor's office.
This has been touted as a major upgrade, so I'm hoping for substantive changes. Unlike others, I haven't found Google Maps to be any great app, other than the rerouting by touch and drag, which is outstanding for a guy like me who would rather take a new route and keep moving than sit in slow traffic.
Same here in Ireland. Friends have spotted the vehicles across the island. Looking forward to using Look Around in particular.
Still not as good or as reliable as Google Maps. I asked Siri for directions to a restaurant 3 miles away... It pulled up Apple Map directions for a restaurant 51 miles away.
Apple Maps is horrible in CarPlay. There is no perspective view. You only have a view looking straight down and it's constantly zooming in and out. Many times it doesn't even maintain current location. It's as if no one at Apple has ever used the CarPlay version while driving. If they had, surely this would have been addressed long ago.
Well I saw the binoculars today in Apple Maps. Didn't really pay attention if it was there before.
Street View is currently only available in the California Bay Area (San Francisco, San Jose, Cupertino, etc.), the Los Angeles metro area, part of Hawaii (Island of O'ahu), Las Vegas metro area, New York City metro area, and Houston, TX metro area.
Houston was added yesterday.
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Massachusetts was updated on September 30, 2019.
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Here in my corner of the Southeast, they're pretty equal. Google does have building outlines, but Apple should have that by the end of the year.
I think they're afraid to venture into Florida. I don't blame them.
You would think one of the most populated states would be a priority.
I personally love Apple Maps down here in SD. I regularly pull up Google Maps to cross-check the two for route choices and ETA's and Apple's is not only usually the same, but often better (not just predicted, but actual). Apple Maps seems to do a great job at understanding what traffic will be like in an area once I am there (in the future), and routing accordingly. I have Google Maps, Waze, and Apple Maps, and vastly prefer Apple Maps over the other two.
I gotta say where Apple has Look Around it’s way better than Street View. Problem is Street View is all over and Look Around is not.