Apple's Maps App Directs Alaska Drivers onto Airport Taxiway

[Prince Akeem]

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, but it doesn't take you onto a taxiway. Yes, the placemark itself is on a taxiway in the center of the airport, but the route stays on the road for cars. That's different compared to how it was the Alaska airport. I checked that one yesterday and it actually directed you to drive onto the taxiway.

But other than that, yes, when entering directions in Apple Maps, the dropped placemarks are often WAY off, compared to Google Maps.

BTW, some people are complaining that TomTom is the problem, as Apple Maps uses their road data. But I don't think that's the true source of most placemark/directions problems in Apple Maps. Clearly, the TomTom navigation app for iOS itself is way better! At least in my country. It's on the same level of quality as Google, but better for directions.

 

[CylonGlitch]

don't be such a fanboi- when apple is wrong they are wrong, and directing someone to drive down an active runway is wrong. and VERY funny. as much as you don't want your precious multi-billion dollar company to be laughed at, it is their own fault. get over it.

And again someone forgetting that EVERY OTHER MAP out there makes the same types of mistakes. Just no one cares; they just report it and move on with their life.

When their maps first came out, of course, joke away, lots of issues, but growing pains happen. Now, it's just a dead horse, stop beating it. It is no longer funny.

 

[AppleScruff1]

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?

Maybe they got too big too fast, including thinking that they can do everything on their own. Perhaps management actually thought that they could equal Google maps with a first time effort? The company ego may be that big. There have been quality control issues with the iPhone 5 and Macs. There have been issues with non Samsung displays and ssd's.

 

[satcomer]

Google did the same thing to National Space Museum near Dulles Airport back a couple of years ago. I even reported this error to Google in 2006 but it didn't get fixed until 2010.

 

[alquimista]

How is this still front page news.
Google maps was riddled with errors in the early days. It took 4 years for them to update a 2 way street I worked in from a one way street.
It is only because Apple has 700 million IOS devices out there that a lot of errors have been found. All will be fixed in due course.

People expect always the best from apple, if it's not them complaint, that's it

 

[CubusX]

Garmin

Apple should have just paid google instead of going through this inefficient route. Tom tom will never be as good.

I had major battery issues with my iPhone 5 so I called Apple Care.

Last night I was told by a senior Apple Advisor that Apple Maps now runs off of Garmin maps. I could not help but laugh at that statement. I have a regular Garmin GPS and a Garmin app on my iPhone 5 and neither one has pointed me to a wrong location. In fact, locations are in the correct spot on my Garmin devices while Apple Maps is hardly ever reliable. If it is true, then Apple never otherex to use the updated data.

 

[applefan10466]

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.

I'm actually astounded by the way some people on here get so braggy when apple makes mistakes and acts as if no other company in the history of mankind has before. :what:

 

[jonowoolley]

Google wouldn't give iOS users turn by turn navigation at all. The only reason they have it now is to appear the "better" alternative to Apple Maps.

Err, that's not true. Apple developed the Google Maps app themselves using the API to Google maps. Apple decided not to update the iOS app for years which is why it lagged behind the Android version - because Apple did not develop it and Google could not develop it as it was owned by Apple. Once Apple Maps was released Google was free to write it's own iOS map with all the features you might expect...

 

[DrDomVonDoom]

Wooo, as a Fairbanksan....we made it to Mac Rumors!

 

[chilly willy]

About a year ago while looking for a soccer complex, Apple Maps instructed me to park my car on the side of a road and walk to my destination. Entrance to the park - quite large mind you - turned out to be about 1/2 mile down the road. Perhaps Apple was trying to get me to get some exercise by walking about 1/2 mile across a field and through some woods....

 

[pdubak]

It happened again! http://www.newsminer.com/news/local_news/police-intercept-driver-attempting-to-cross-fairbanks-airport-runway/article_fbe385e8-27e1-11e3-9308-0019bb30f31a.html?TNNoMobile

 

[Mikeindc]

Apple maps do suck

I tried three time tonight to get directions. All three time apple Maps took me to the wrong city. The first time I search address with city, state and zip, the second with company name city and zip and the third with just company blame and city.

After getting correct directions with google, I experimented when I got home. Out if 12 attempts, apple maps were wrong 10 times (once they were close, search for city was only 3 miles off). Using the same search on google maps, google was correct all 12 times.

If anything, apple naps are getting worse than they were before. I really want to like them. The interface is much better than google maps, but apple so seldom can find the location (usually they are pretty good if you gave full addres, but suck with company name and city) that I've about given up on them.

 

[pirateyarrr]

No joke. How dare they only sell 9 million iPhones in three days.

Think about how many absolutely technology-inept retards are now buying iPhones simply because they're the shiny new thing to get. That wasn't the case when the first, and even the second, iPhones came out. You probably know more than one of these people.

Now realize that Apple can coast on those sales for years to come. Whether they do, in fact, coast, remains to be seen. So far the signs aren't great.

In any case, the current sales figures have zero to do with what Tim Cook is doing.

 

[nia820]

How is this still front page news.
Google maps was riddled with errors in the early days. It took 4 years for them to update a 2 way street I worked in from a one way street.
It is only because Apple has 700 million IOS devices out there that a lot of errors have been found. All will be fixed in due course.

The thing there was no other map system better than google maps in the early days. And they weren't that widely used.
With apple maps mobile navigating is common and Google maps is much better than apple maps. Apple should have perfected maps before ditching google maps.
You don't change get rid of a good thing and replace with something still in the beta stages.

 

[satcomer]

One thing I discovered in Apple Maps was the "Report a Problem' button. It took them about two weeks to fix a navigational error I found in Northern Virginia.

I bet if you took the time to report these errors the faster things would get corrected.