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Did a search for New Zealand and it popped right up....both satellite and regular maps....I'm starting to wonder if some of you are complaining for the sake of complaining?
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Apple's New iOS 6 Maps App Drawing Significant Criticism
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Did a search for New Zealand and it popped right up....both satellite and regular maps....I'm starting to wonder if some of you are complaining for the sake of complaining?
And you know what people do or do not use how??
Seriously? You do realize there's not a pile of cash big enough for Google to hand over their bread and butter to Apple, right?
Well, maybe not, since you did post that comment.
You are kidding, right? My wife and I both travel a lot and use public transportation a lot as well, the loss of that alone is infuriating. I think I am ok to speak for many when I say that the previous mapping app had become one of the best reasons to even own an iPhone, it was incredibly productive.
It's not a total disaster, but close. What they replaced the pulsing orange and red traffic graphics with is a hard to see dotted line, the orange ones blend in with the streets! There is about half the resolution overall, obviously some things are missing and accuracy issues as well not to mention hardly a fraction of the points of interest listed in Google Maps.
To Apple's credit it does load near instantly on my iPhone 4, so that is good, but what a step down from one of the best reasons to even own a smart phone, Google Maps....damn I hope they improve this fast....
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I like a lot of the improvements in iOS 6 (such as shared PhotoStreams, Do Not Disturb and streaming from iTunes Match), but maps is an absolute disaster
Even if Google do release a standalone app, it's not a complete fix because any apps using MapKit will also be using these inferior maps
Even if Google do release a standalone app, it's not a complete fix because any apps using MapKit will also be using these inferior maps
I used maps in ios6, it was garbage, ****. Sorry but i call a spade a spade, perhaps apple should renewed deal with google for another year while they developed their own solution, run it side by side until its upto par with google.
I also have no issues. It is accurate for me (except that I live in a brand new neighborhood and one of the roads doesn't go all the way through on the map like it does now). The UI looks better and is infinitely smoother. Numerous times the GMaps app was useless because it took forever to render.
I'm a fan....then again as some people so eloquently pointed out, I'm an iSheep
I have to agree. It is much better and faster than Google at rendering the maps. In the car I would wait forever for Google maps to load some times.
Sure, there are a few quirks, but I think it is a great start for the Apple Maps.
Good riddnace to Google Maps...
According to Apple Maps, I live 30 miles from where I actually am
you can have fun searching for your town to see how awful the mapping is
you can have fun searching for your town to see how awful the mapping is
My home country people
I am sorry, but obviously there is something wrong with your map image. I guess you are not connected to the Internet or something. New Zealand looks fine on my iPad.
Still Apple maps sucks!!
I find it funny how unforgiving people are. Google has been doing these maps for YEARS. Apple JUST released theirs. Give it some time and it will get better. Maybe better than Google. You can't really expect Apple to top Google Maps from the get-go.
So where are all the people who criticized us when this was pointed out earlier, saying "it was a beta."
As if they magically expected apple to drastically improve imaging technology in a few months....
Because they have completely removed a far Superior application. You can't just 'forgive' when you are forced to use a crappy replacement.
As if they magically expected apple to drastically improve imaging technology in a few months....
Because they have completely removed a far Superior application. You can't just 'forgive' when you are forced to use a crappy replacement.
This is another problem, it's not prioritising locations correctly.
Luton is a large town in Bedfordshire, UK, but when you search for Luton it shows you this tiny seaside village.
It seems like most of the complaining is coming from outside the US. But if map data is the main concern, that'll just get better as more crowd-sourced data is pushed to Apple. The more users they have, the better it will become. They had to start somewhere, and with the smoothness and quickness of rendering they've created a good foundation.
These maps are simply unreliable. The satellite imagery for my suburban area is way out of date. And I cannot understand why there are no street number/block indications at all.
I cannot figure out how they put together the satellite images - it looks as if they tried to ghost out the trees which results in very weird shadows everywhere since I am surrounded by trees. The area across from my home is a hill covered with trees - but on the satellite image there are no trees at all - it looks like red rock canyon walls - totally unrecognizable. This is not a far-away place - it is 15 minutes outside of a major US city!!!
The directions and locations that I searched to get a feel for accuracy were very hit or miss. Very disappointing.
I cannot figure out how they put together the satellite images - it looks as if they tried to ghost out the trees which results in very weird shadows everywhere since I am surrounded by trees. The area across from my home is a hill covered with trees - but on the satellite image there are no trees at all - it looks like red rock canyon walls - totally unrecognizable. This is not a far-away place - it is 15 minutes outside of a major US city!!!
The directions and locations that I searched to get a feel for accuracy were very hit or miss. Very disappointing.
Rome (Google Maps) Was Not Built In One Day
Rome was not built in a single day. The metaphor being Google Maps.
Expect no less from Apple Maps.
Apple's iOS 6 Maps is a new feature; it's a 1.0 product.
According to Wikipedia, Google Maps were launched on February 8, 2005; 7 years ago.
Rome was not built in a single day. The metaphor being Google Maps.
Expect no less from Apple Maps.
Apple's iOS 6 Maps is a new feature; it's a 1.0 product.
According to Wikipedia, Google Maps were launched on February 8, 2005; 7 years ago.
Yeah, I did the same thing, even posted that people were spoiled brats for complaining.....then I went to find the bus route to metro station on a future trip to DC and found NO metro stations, NO public transportation options and the name of the destination we saw a few days ago on the old app now gone....
This is not a joke, a lot of us use this for work and it is simply a hobbled app at this point...:-(
I'd pay $100 to have it back to the way it was, it saved my wife and I that much time and money in productivity...
My home country people
Looks a lot clearer on my iPhone app... Could it be a bandwidth issue?
The auto move function in turn by turn does work, but only on the iPhone 4s and 5 (iPad 3 I think too?). Seems that it does not work on the iPhone 4. I don't know about the technical aspects of making maps, but I am hoping what some people are saying is true, that you need to gather info from the users to make your maps better? In that case, since this is the first day after release, hoping Apple is getting A LOT of user info so they can improve on their maps? Even if my iPhone 4 doesn't do auto move, it still shows me my progress with that blue glow dot like it did before, so it's not like I lost anything there.
I Love Apple, and that's why I'm most dissapointed that they were satisfied to release this maps app when it was clearly no where close to ready!
Have had zero issues thus far. Granted my house is about 2 months old and it shows me as living in an empty lot but that's understandable. I'm at work and it puts me in the correct location without any of the jerky back and forth movements some have described.
If anything, it seems inconsistent from one area to the next, which will improve as more data is pushed to Apple by users.
Do a Directions search to there and chances are there's a road called Luton Road and it's basing it's mappiong on that - did for me in Cheadle...or should i say Cheadle Road
Bring Back Google Maps
I have TomTom for turn by turn but I use Google Maps all the time since the iPhone 3G for public transit in Ann Arbor. Now that feature is gone and Apple wants me to use some crapy third party app with ads that is slow and does not work near as well.
I know Apple will not allow google to be the primary mapping service but Apple needs to bring these services in house and Google needs to make an iOS Google Maps App. I know I will be using it.
Fix it Apple!
I have TomTom for turn by turn but I use Google Maps all the time since the iPhone 3G for public transit in Ann Arbor. Now that feature is gone and Apple wants me to use some crapy third party app with ads that is slow and does not work near as well.
I know Apple will not allow google to be the primary mapping service but Apple needs to bring these services in house and Google needs to make an iOS Google Maps App. I know I will be using it.
Fix it Apple!
Are the issues mostly with satellite view? I generally never use Satellite view with Maps, which may be why I feel it didn't seem that different except maybe the art style of the maps themselves, and hell I live in Alaska. My family owns a house cleaning business, so I use maps ALOT at least once a day, especially for houses that are way out in the boonies. Even Google never gave us real good mapping, so its nothing new here, lol.
The biggest problem here, is Apple is still saying "HEY look at our revolutionary, (enter product name here)" and whereas before it was always finished and polished, they are becoming lazy and simply saying, "Meh we will fix it later" thats definitely not the Apple I became infatuated with.
Even more, if this is Tom Tom's maps, WTF is wrong with them? I thought they were top of the line Turn by Turn navigation company, and churning out ****** maps like these? Apple better launch its own imaging Sattalite, put a iSight camera on that bitch, it would so a better job.
The biggest problem here, is Apple is still saying "HEY look at our revolutionary, (enter product name here)" and whereas before it was always finished and polished, they are becoming lazy and simply saying, "Meh we will fix it later" thats definitely not the Apple I became infatuated with.
Even more, if this is Tom Tom's maps, WTF is wrong with them? I thought they were top of the line Turn by Turn navigation company, and churning out ****** maps like these? Apple better launch its own imaging Sattalite, put a iSight camera on that bitch, it would so a better job.
Hope somebody is cracking the whip over Scott Forstalls head atm. Mapping is a gigantic undertaking, and while i understand Apple will develop it and it will get better, whats of more concern is the current 'unfinished is good enough' approach Apple have take to things like this recently. I'd rather wait for real value than have something half baked.
shaking my head...
I'm quietly shaking my head (and chuckling to myself) whenever I read how horrible the iOS6 Maps app is and how many fanboys were claiming how great it would be, in this thread:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1383613/
and in this thread:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1381000/
Apple really dropped the ball on this one.
I'm quietly shaking my head (and chuckling to myself) whenever I read how horrible the iOS6 Maps app is and how many fanboys were claiming how great it would be, in this thread:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1383613/
and in this thread:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1381000/
Apple really dropped the ball on this one.