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Apple's Maps App Directs Alaska Drivers onto Airport Taxiway
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I don't know what's more annoying the people defending apple or the people who are shocked that people are defending apple on an Apple site. As if this was Google maps, fandroids wouldn't be defending Google?
Regrettably this story is totally plausible. You can just drive out onto the runway from the float plane / private plane side of the airport. I just drove over there to verify.... Although, when I chose ROUTE in the map app from my current location (my office is a few miles away) an error pops up and says "Directions not available - A route could not be determined between these locations." For the airport official to say you have to drive past several gates and warnings, that was a bit disingenuous. Yes, there are a few signs that say Airport traffic only, duhh, and there are gates at the end of each street, but the one I drove up to just opened for me before I even reached it.
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I don't either. Google has screwed up directions just as bad yet nobody ever mentions them. This is ridiculous to say the least. So sick of the Apple haters these days. No matter how well Apple does people still complain and bitch. Apple just can't win.
Woah. Woah.
I visited the US recently and had to give my fingerprints and spent 2 hours in line only to get harassed in the sexuals by a sweatty overweight man named Carlos, because 'national security'.
But people in Alaska can just drive right onto the runway into the path of a 737 carrying 100+ passengers?
I agree. People need to pay attention to what they are actually doing. GPS is quite good, but not perfect and sometimes common sense is needed. If Apple maps shows a restaurant in the middle of a lake, people shouldn't try to drive there if there is no road.
It's a different world from most of the lower 48, in many ways.
Alaska heavily depends on airplane travel, and people are more pragmatic about it.
What's sup whit the bad spellin' and grammar RicD? Reoccurred is the correctist word bro! The crap didn't go down at regular intervals!! More of a hard to predict event!!! Word!!!! UP!!!!!!!!
good joke there buddy.. because Google has had Turn-by-turn on Android for the past few years. They didn't put it on iOS until last year because Apple was so restrictive of 3rd party apps providing common sense services to users. Apple Maps is a joke. Google is the king of maps, Apple put its ego in the front and shafted Google Maps because of that. That's not right. and now most iPhone users get an iPhone, download Google Maps and hide the Apple Maps icon in some hidden folder. lol
why is driving onto the taxiway even possible?
You mean I need to give up my bottle of water and get groped by security in order to get into the waiting room for the plane, but I can drive my car down to the runway without even encountering a closed gate? Doesn't this sort of make any other airport security pointless?
Gosh, I hope no nefarious bad guy ever finds this out.
You mean I need to give up my bottle of water and get groped by security in order to get into the waiting room for the plane, but I can drive my car down to the runway without even encountering a closed gate? Doesn't this sort of make any other airport security pointless?
Gosh, I hope no nefarious bad guy ever finds this out.
I can count the number of software products on my fingers. How can a company in the top 3 market cap be spread too thin on a limited number of products?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jsdzQY-k73E
Blaming others for your own stupidity is just lame even if there is a flaw in the software.
Blaming others for your own stupidity is just lame even if there is a flaw in the software.
This is the case for many if not most airports. I've submitted numerous problem reports for the past 6 months to no avail. This was after I was directed to the wrong exit off of the interstate and ended up at the back of the Rochester, NY airport. Just checked and this hasn't been updated.
Try checking any airport in your area. Baltimore Washington airport will also lead you to a taxi way.
Just checked San Francisco airport. It's messed up as well. I suspect most airports are tagged incorrectly.
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No, it's most airports. Try check one close to you.
Try checking any airport in your area. Baltimore Washington airport will also lead you to a taxi way.
Just checked San Francisco airport. It's messed up as well. I suspect most airports are tagged incorrectly.
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No, it's most airports. Try check one close to you.
I am astounded by the way some people on here get so personally offended whenever something negative towards Apple is written. They will make errors, not everything they touch is the best. Face reality folks.
TomTom has that information correctly (just looked for both YFC and Fredericton International Airport on http://www.routes.tomtom.com, although their directions get you to outside the airport on Lincoln Rd, whereas Google Maps on the desktop get you to the actual terminal), so that would definitely appear to be an Apple issue - whether it be the version of the maps that they have bought from TomTom, or Apple Map's search algorithm. If you scroll down the map to where the airport is, you can see a big pinkish blob covering the airport area, but no POI information.
Wow. People can't possibly be that stupid. Really?
I can't tell you how many times Google has given me wrong-to-dangerous directions. Did I follow them? Nope. Why not? Common sense. People who are so stupid that they trust a map over their own eyes (and numerous road signs) shouldn't be allowed to drive. In fact, they shouldn't be allowed to own a smart phone. In fact... yeah.
"It wasn't my fault, officer. Maps pointed me directly into the women's dressing room. Look! It says it right there!"
"But Maps said to turn right while on the bridge. I didn't see the fencing."
"Maps made me walk into a steaming pile of excrement. I'm suing!"
I can't tell you how many times Google has given me wrong-to-dangerous directions. Did I follow them? Nope. Why not? Common sense. People who are so stupid that they trust a map over their own eyes (and numerous road signs) shouldn't be allowed to drive. In fact, they shouldn't be allowed to own a smart phone. In fact... yeah.
"It wasn't my fault, officer. Maps pointed me directly into the women's dressing room. Look! It says it right there!"
"But Maps said to turn right while on the bridge. I didn't see the fencing."
"Maps made me walk into a steaming pile of excrement. I'm suing!"