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Apple's Maps App Directs Alaska Drivers onto Airport Taxiway

i had not used apple maps in a long time so when i upgraded to iOS7 i decided to give it a shot. the first time i entered my home address and it tried sending me to a whole other part of town, even though the address was correct - zip code and everything.

the second time we were looking for a wine vineyard in VA and we ended up at some obscure farm 20 min away. it was pretty scary.

i dont understand how this app could be such a disaster.

back to google maps app...
 
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!


What's next... Apple's Map app directing people to jump off a cliff to get to the Grand Canyon?!?!

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!


no... this is a serious matter and someone's going to get hurt.
Just the other day... the Apple Maps app directed me to cross a busy street to get to the other side. :rolleyes:
 
sclawis300 said:
after reviewing some of your other posts, I have a hard time understanding why you are on this forum or why you even use (if that is true) apple products.
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I know it's hard to believe, but there are people who like and use Apple products that don't worship the company. They also see room for improvements in said products and don't think they are perfect. They can actually criticize Apple and still be a customer.
 
Not that surprising

Here in Southern California we have a small but very busy international airport as well. It's called McClellan International Airport. There's a little restaurant located on the site (at least there used to be, it's been a while since I've been there). To get to said restaurant you literally had to cross the taxi way that all the small/medium sized airplanes use in order to get to the runway. So this story is just not that surprising.
 
AppleScruff1 said:
I know it's hard to believe, but there are people who like and use Apple products that don't worship the company. They also see room for improvements in said products and don't think they are perfect. They can actually criticize Apple and still be a customer.
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I don't think he/she is one of those people.
 
No surprise. I was lost last Summer trying to return a rental car back at the PHL airport. At some popular places, the map would direct you to the delivery gate instead of the main entrance.

On the other hand, the map app does seem to be getting better over time, but not fast enough. Apple needs to 'laser-focus' on the map...
 
scottwaugh said:
Things are different up in Alaska....

That said, these errors are just a huge (very high publicity) lawsuit waiting to happen to Apple (imagine if someone had driven in front of an airliner taking off or landing on that runway & caused a crash)....
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Then they weren't paying attention to their surroundings and that is hardly Apple's fault. Nor is it Apple's fault that apparently the airport has open unsecured gates that allow access to the runway
 
amazing

Siri: Turn right and drive off bridge...
Dumb driver: Ok, I guess I won't use my common sense...(passes multiple signs warning of the danger).

I guess we can blame our phones now for doing stupid things. This reminds me of the Office episode where Michael listens to his GPS and drives into the water...
 
MacRumors said:
According to the airport's chief of operations, Melissa Osborn, out-of-town drivers have driven onto airport property twice in the past week, crossing the runway and driving directly to the airport ramp side of the passenger terminal. "These folks drove past several signs. They even drove past a gate. None of that cued them that they did something inappropriate," she said.
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Not excusing this, but there is something seriously wrong with security at that airport if people can drive across the runway.
 
This is what happens when you go the cheapo route and use an offbrand google maps as you your map provider.
 
pirateyarrr said:
You can sit and wait for TomTom to "get their act together", whatever that means (if you ever sampled GPS's pre-phone-directions-era, you knew TomTom was inferior, as they are now)......

or you can give up the religious devotion to one company, and actually pick the product that offers the better maps, the less-closed phone OS, and better specs for less money.
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I currently have at least four turn-by-turn map apps on my iPhone. It's not either/or.

Edit: Five. Apple, Navigon, Mapquest, Motion-GPS, Google. In that order.
 
Yeah, Google Maps once told me to drive the wrong way down a one way street and then to drive through a concrete barricade which had been in place for at least 30 years. Maps are not 100%. Anyone who can't tell the difference between an access road and a taxiway should not have a driver's license. Any airport which permits car access to a controlled airport space also needs to get a long talking to from the FAA and DHS.
 
This is awesome. Maybe this will lead to people that have the inability to process basic information to stop driving and to stop venturing out. I just hope a lawsuit doesn't come out of this especially since that area of the airport should not have allowed access to non-aiport personnel anyway. I mean especially with RUSSIA RIGHT OVER THERE!!!!


I do like the fact that the airport's chief of operations clearly put the blame on the drivers that didn't realize they were being idiots. I think that's what she really wanted to say.
 
I have had Google Maps tell me to turn down Main Street, U.S.A. at Disneyland to get to my destination. So, none of them are perfect and you have to use your common sense to realize when something isn't right.

How anyone could hear Apple Maps saying turn on to the Taxiway and not realize that they can't do that is beyond me.

That being said, how lax is security there if cars can simply drive on to the runway?
 
freedevil said:
Apple should have just paid google instead of going through this inefficient route. Tom tom will never be as good.
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http://www.livescience.com/38228-scottish-island-vanishes-from-google-maps.html

Because Google Maps is perfect, too?

pirateyarrr said:
You can sit and wait for TomTom to "get their act together", whatever that means (if you ever sampled GPS's pre-phone-directions-era, you knew TomTom was inferior, as they are now)......

or you can give up the religious devotion to one company, and actually pick the product that offers the better maps, the less-closed phone OS, and better specs for less money.

I'm not saying everyone should dump their iPhones. They're certainly the better choice for non-techie types. But that comes with a price - if you think that saying "TomTom needs to get their act together" is going to result in some magical transformation, I've got a few bridges to sell you. There's no motivation for that to occur, because the masses are already slavishly devoted to their iPhones. That's fine, just don't expect the kind of accuracy you're going to get with Google Maps, cuz you ain't gonna get it.
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Wait, did you actually make the argument that one should give up a religious devotion to one company while, at the same time, shilling for Google?
 
Just wondering, but does the airport security seem just a little too relaxed to anyone?

oops -- cmwade77 beat me to it.
 
Winni said:
That being said, they could have licensed Google Maps, or Navigon, or, or, or. But no, they had to reinvent the wheel and found out the hard way that they were not up to the task. It's one thing to design nice looking user interfaces for rather simple tasks. Shipping mapping solutions is a different ball game.
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They did, it's from TomTom. Presumably that would be next to one of your "or,". But hey, you don't care about accuracy, just bashing.



The worst problem with ALL of these mapping programs is the same thing: They do not identify highway exit/on ramps properly. At least not where I live. ALL of them have this problem, a third to two thirds of all ramps are designated as a 'road split' in their system, screwing up the navigation. As someone that actually uses gps weekly for work, it drives me nuts.
 
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