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Apple's Maps Team Hiring Web UI Designer for 'New Secret Project'
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They should focus on accuracy a whole lot more. POI's even in Los Angeles are nearly non existent atleast for the ones I need. So apple maps can have best interface in the world but that still doesn't make a good map. Even few days ago typed in an address and took me to a completely wrong location miles and miles away should have used google maps as usual but I thought they might have fixed address issues by now...
Isn't it all a bit late? Apple Maps went from laughing stock to laughing stock.
It did change for a while in some places, but in some cities things just never changed. Where I live things, if anything, got worse. Pubs are in the middle of roads, shopping centres have no shops or cinemas. Laser eye surgery places become cinemas. A lot of businesses are randomly thrown over the map, nowhere near where they actually are. Towns and cities don't exist, it is still a mess, and to be honest that is not going to change any time soon, if ever.
It is quite often good enough to get you to the right area, but rarely where you actually intend to go. Apple have tried to fight too many battles at too many fronts. Maybe it is time to admit it was a big mistake, whilst munching tasty humble pie.
It did change for a while in some places, but in some cities things just never changed. Where I live things, if anything, got worse. Pubs are in the middle of roads, shopping centres have no shops or cinemas. Laser eye surgery places become cinemas. A lot of businesses are randomly thrown over the map, nowhere near where they actually are. Towns and cities don't exist, it is still a mess, and to be honest that is not going to change any time soon, if ever.
It is quite often good enough to get you to the right area, but rarely where you actually intend to go. Apple have tried to fight too many battles at too many fronts. Maybe it is time to admit it was a big mistake, whilst munching tasty humble pie.
"Siri, take me to Pluto, I need to take a vacation from this heat."
"Calculating..."
*A ton of days of plasma-powered engines roaring later...*
We are at: The Sun.
/joking
A thousand times this!
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The problem with this approach is there is little (no) reason to use Apple Maps if given a choice. The only reason I use it is because it's the default app.
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Maybe Apple should start by questioning why Helicopter view exists.
This job posting is just a bunch of ********. It's a fake ad to drum up hype. You would think Apple, being one of the leading software producers in the world, would already have the person they're searching for already in their ranks. And why say "new secret project"? This "job posting" is just a dummy to deflect any negative press towards Apple Maps.
Sekret
The real job is actually a massive undertaking - QA and/or validation of the TomTom data base. Once that is done, the successful applicant would then overhaul the back end programming controlling how the user gets from point A to point B.
The Fairbanks aiport issue is of course, the tip of the iceberg. This is why Google Maps and Waze are used so much more often.
The real job is actually a massive undertaking - QA and/or validation of the TomTom data base. Once that is done, the successful applicant would then overhaul the back end programming controlling how the user gets from point A to point B.
The Fairbanks aiport issue is of course, the tip of the iceberg. This is why Google Maps and Waze are used so much more often.
Maybe Apple can gift apps to people who use Apple Maps. Why? To make Apple Maps better people have to use it, but people don't want to use it because it isn't very good. I have no incentive to use it over Google Maps.
YAY! I've posted many times on here that Apple needs web and API access to its Maps service in order for it to have any chance of being successful. Everyone was replying to my comment like I was crazy. Haaaaa!
For once, I read a list of required qualifications and thought, "I have all that." Why would I leave a job that has paid me to learn so many things?
Apple Maps would be a lot better if they actually fixed up some of the issues that users actually submit. I submitted many "fixes" when it first came out (updating place names / locations), and NONE have been updated.
This is where the google mapmaker (Google Maps' editing tool) really stands out.
I'm thinking Apple underestimates how powerful their users (in numbers) actually are. If they implemented some sort of tool that allowed users to edit place names / add locations, and perhaps even have software that cross-checks it with Google Maps for validity, I'm sure Apple Maps could be on par with Google Maps within a year.
This is where the google mapmaker (Google Maps' editing tool) really stands out.
I'm thinking Apple underestimates how powerful their users (in numbers) actually are. If they implemented some sort of tool that allowed users to edit place names / add locations, and perhaps even have software that cross-checks it with Google Maps for validity, I'm sure Apple Maps could be on par with Google Maps within a year.
Care to elaborate? Or, do you want to leave your blatant display of ignorance as is?
