I'm hoping someone on YouTube does a video of this to show us the best/easiest way to use it, because as you said, it's not intuitive right now.
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Apple Maps Rivals AllTrails on iOS 18 With New Hiking Features in U.S.
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In Poland it shows wrong information about businesses and often leads you to wrong places. Google Maps is more up to date.
Thing is Apple never goes “all in” and their offerings are extremely casual, superficial even. It’s a focus problem and they’ve had it for years across their platforms. We’re just now seeing the accumulation because it’s so bad you don’t need to scrutinize -it no longer requires a microscope. They’ve grown to an unmanageable size given how they operate. Case in point are silly things like iPad OS nearly always getting features from iOS a year later (this year being a notable exception). What apple excels at is killing healthy markets. You’ll get what they deign to offer
Why? Not trolling, I’ve never even heard of those last two you mentioned, maybe I’m missing out on something. I’m not a hardcore hiker. Probably only do the ones all tourists in a town do so I may not even need what you’re referring to.
Now that you mention it! The opening hours are quite often wrong here in Berlin as well
But it can’t get directions down right much less any of this other stuff. So it’s not really an argument
But isn’t it great that Apple provides a market place for developers who don’t want to get into hardware but are still able to sell millions of dollars in apps that are more specific for a niche of users?
Exactly. I‘m in the US and don’t even have all of the Maps features. I definitely understand the frustration people in other countries have with not getting all the Maps features, but they also act like all of us in the US have it all. Even within the US, you have to be in one of the “select few” cities to truly have it ALL.
Perhaps you should be more realistic. As another poster pointed out, the world is a big place and mapping even small parts of it involve a lot of work. Besides, different countries have different rules on what can/cannot be mapped; different regulations, etc.
The Apple Watch app requires your phone for navigation. If I'm out for a walk/hike, I usually prefer to only have my watch and AirPods.
That's the opposite of what I was hearing recently when I listened to the episode of Techmeme Ride Home podcast where they interviewed Arvin Srinivas, CEO of Perplexity AI which is one of the bigger AI players out there right now. He specifically said from their analysis, it seems that Yelp has More accurate reviews as they on average score lower than their Google counterpart, which has been suffering from a ton of botting recently, so it seems like they were balancing their AI towards Yelp data.
You may be correct in that Yelp sold out at some point, but it seems like Google is even worse now, lol. Basically they both probably suck.
I think we need some kind of blockchain ID system, maybe like Worldcoin (although I have my own problems with that, primarily Sam Altman) that can prevent a lot of these bots from occurring. You still run the risk of users being paid off for reviews, but at least it makes it more costly and difficult to manage human meatbags.
Apple needs to pull back their rhetoric and platitudes if they can’t do it. Simple as. A lot of folks have a different experience with maps than some keynote or blurb on a website would lead one to believe. They’ve got the money and talent to bring to bear on this type of problem so is it a lack of focus?
It bears repeating : either they can’t or they won’t. The discussion centers around the answer to that. And the reasoning for the answer
Apple Map's trail data is also sourced from AllTrail. So probably a win - win for them. Also, the data is nowhere near as comprehensive as AllTrail.
AllTrails maps are fairly accurate but not always up to date. I always get the latest from park rangers, especially on longer hikes. I think Apple Watch Ultra and iPhone 14 Pro and above satellite access in case of emergency.
Say what? No single app can cover all the world, I don’t care what device or what service, there is lot more that isn’t covered.
I use All trails but that has some serious limitations, it’s up to the user to do due diligence.
Makes sense. I may have to look into that. That’s how I do my runs and bike rides here at home. No phone.
It’s true if the apps don’t own core API. All those GPT wrappers made a killing. Most of them were Sherlock’s by openAI. Make most of it before it’s too late.
Google reviews is bot infested. And updates have become worse in post Covid era, ton of closed restaurants and stores still listed.
You know I had the exact opposite experience, as well as most of my freinds. Google provided crazy directions, Waze may have been hacked as it showing road closures and police activity that weren't happening and suggested a long way around. Maps (TomTom based) was pretty good and provided much better directions. There may be differences between areas you are exploring, and certainly your preferences and avoidance setup that result in big differences. But in my recent experience I like the Maps routing much much better than Google. Waze is a joke around here.
That's not strictly true. A decent offline client like Organic Maps that pulls in map data from OSM works pretty much everywhere. I've got detail maps in the middle of mountains in Asia, Northern arctic tundras, chunks of rock sticking out of the sea off Italy, middle of bloody nowhere in Kazakhstan, all sorts!
The amount of times that has got me out of deep poo poo is shocking.
I doubt Apple Maps will be able to even get close to that considering OS here, the "official" mapping outfit, produces utter garbage that is a liability now.
