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Apple's New iOS 6 Maps App Drawing Significant Criticism

jrswizzle said:
Be more specific then....
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Didn't have to be more specific with Google, it sensibly showed us the LARGE TOWN with an airport rather than the TINY SEASIDE VILLAGE.

When you do a search for "Luton Beds" or "Luton Bedfordshire" it not only centres on Luton, but also drops a load of pins on POIs that match "Beds" or "Bedfordshire"

Even if you use "Luton, Beds" or "Luton, Bedfordshire" it does the same thing.

These maps are completely unintuitive.
 
dashiel said:
This is not to absolve Apple, but Google had similar problems 18-24 months ago. Missing towns, locations in the wrong place, unable to find addresses, it was so bad I was considering switching some of my clients to Bing which was more accurate for their needs.
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This is just an abject lie. Absolute nonsense. Google Maps has for more than 5 years been one of the best, up-to-date mapping solution available on the internet.

What is with Apple Fanbois and their propensity for distorting reality?

I have all Apple products. I switched to the Mac in 2006. And bought the first iPhone in 2007. I have about 5 iPads, of various generations in my home. And now, as the saying goes: you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone. And boy do I know what I had with Google Maps.

If you're an urban dweller -- I live in downtown Toronto -- you just know how fantastic Google Maps is. In Toronto, Google Maps even has maps for the subterranean pedestrian tunnels (the PATH) in Toronto. They even map the alleyways between buildings -- things that aren't even in the best traditional paper maps.

Apple Maps has so much less information it's not even funny. Within my first one hour of playing with it, I found no less than three MAJOR inaccuracies in Toronto.

1. Apple Maps says Canada's Walk of Fame is on Queens Quay at Yonge St. It's not. It's at King & Simcoe... over a mile away!
2. Apple Maps doesn't even acknowledge the existence of the Toronto island airport -- which is a major commuter flight hub (some apple fanboy fool will likely say this airport is unimportant or something ridiculous)
3. But even more hilarious, is Toronto Lester B. Pearson International Airport has been apparently rebranded to "Trans Capital Air 1".

These aren't minor inconveniences. These maps are absolutely useless for anything more than basic street navigation. But MapQuest did basic street navigation in 1999. This isn't 1999. But that's apparently where Apple has decided to take us in their spat with Google.

For shame.

I cancelled my reservation for an iPhone 5. If the Google Maps app magically appears in the AppStore in the next few weeks, maybe I'll re-order an iPhone 5 -- I'm heavily invested in the iOS ecosystem. I still like the OS. But failing that, I'm probably going to go buy a Galaxy Nexus or something.

This is just too painful.
 
jrswizzle said:
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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Wouldn't complain if it loaded, I live in Perth works wonders and love the new maps. Was more a point not everywhere is fully done yet.

It's new it'll just take time :) besides Googles isn't 100% either. A lot of people are finding petty things to complain about at the moment.

Again... I like the maps don't get me wrong
 
So not only is the maps app hosed, but most other apps that have mapping and use Apple's included solution will have similar bad results, right? So things like Yelp get much worse mapping as well?

Macclone said:
Oh, and th new app works great for my area in the US, which is all that matters to me.
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Gee, that's a great recipe for a hit product. Create a map app that works for a few people who happen to live in spots that are well mapped and also never go anywhere.

Brilliant.
 
fatboyslick said:
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
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Must be a long ass road if there is one because Luton (seaside village) is in Southwest England near Blackpool, where Luton (Bedfordshire town) is in the southest/south near London.
 
Macshroomer said:
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 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...
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Ya I understand about the public transportation. Are there any other apps that give this functionality out there currently?
 
Maps in US are barely acceptable
And worldwide are a ****ing pile of dog ****!!

Crapple finest indeed
 
jrswizzle said:
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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Maps look great at first.. it's when you look more closely and realise POIs, even towns and landmarks are in the completely wrong place or simply not there.
 
I saw this coming, and prepared both my iDevices for a stay on iOS5 for a while (I may update the iPad in due course, but definitely not the iPhone).

Apple make a big thing of accessibility, and even charities recommend them as a result of it. But this change really flies in the face of that!

I can't drive, and 3D doesn't officially work in the UK, so two of the biggest touted features of this new app are useless to me. Removing Transit times was the killer blow. Yes, having vector graphics does fix one of my long-standing bugbears - fixed size text - but that's about it!

I have just discovered that Navigon are doing something with transit support, so I'll probably check that out to see if it's sufficient to allow me to update to iOS6 while I wait for a Google solution (I tried the in-browser version and hated it).

I'm all for progress and competition in the industry. I work in it! But replacing a perfectly good app with one that's beta at best doesn't make sense to me from any standpoint.
 
mdelaney123 said:
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.
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So, this is not a toy but a tool for many of us and now we have no options until Google comes out with a stand alone app or Apple improves this fast. When an important tool is no longer there, it is a big deal to some.
 
I think what pisses me off the most is the App logo itself is wrong. You can't take a left and float onto a bridge...am I right?
 
Lack of Transit just makes me mad

My biggest complaint with the new Maps App is the lack of transit information. I agree that things like street view and the problems with locations is annoying but Apple took away a key reason that I even bought an Iphone. There is noting like being able to, in a few clicks, pull up directions from where you are to where you need to go and the bus that will take you there. While Google's app was very low functioning in that regard all we are left with is pathetic imitations of Google's design. I know Apple want to please their developers but I dont want to have to go through multiple apps to accomplish what I could once do by just using one.
 
globalhemp said:
it's a 1.0 product.
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Apologists keep making this excuse.

With the Google version, in the vast majority of cases, people used the maps and directions and actually ended up where they wanted to go.

With the new version, the number of cases where people simply can't get there with the maps app is vastly higher.

Seriously, there are people so biased toward Apple that even a software "upgrade" that literally no longer gets you where you need to go is a non issue?
 
Even the Starbucks, which is Apple's favorite, down the street from me is missing from the map database. Yet the one 7 miles away is listed.

At least maps.google.com works just fine from mobile Safari and can be saved as a homescreen shortcut.

Android users are chuckling to themselves...
 
Nathan20 said:
Wow. Everyone is criticising an app they didn't use much before iOS 6...
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Check yourself, etc. As someone who's moved to new cities twice over the last two years, Maps is definitely one of my most frequently used apps. In fact, hearing about the flukey new version, I've held off updating to iOS 6. Can't have the app I depend on go down the toilet -- particularly with no transit option.

Why did Apple feel the need to self-represent on this one? Gahh.
 
milo said:
Apologists keep making this excuse.

With the Google version, in the vast majority of cases, people used the maps and directions and actually ended up where they wanted to go.

With the new version, the number of cases where people simply can't get there with the maps app is vastly higher.

Seriously, there are people so biased toward Apple that even a software "upgrade" that literally no longer gets you where you need to go is a non issue?
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I'd say the people who are saying "It's a 1.0 product" are the ones who are having no issues with it. I'm one of those people.
 
If I try searching for "Canada Walk of fame" I get "No results found", similar for "pearson airport"... yet these searches are successful on Google Maps.

* I tried the same searches again, and I get different results - which are successful - so Apple Maps return inconsistent results - great.

brockm said:
This is just an abject lie. Absolute nonsense. Google Maps has for more than 5 years been one of the best, up-to-date mapping solution available on the internet.

What is with Apple Fanbois and their propensity for distorting reality?

I have all Apple products. I switched to the Mac in 2006. And bought the first iPhone in 2007. I have about 5 iPads, of various generations in my home. And now, as the saying goes: you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone. And boy do I know what I had with Google Maps.

If you're an urban dweller -- I live in downtown Toronto -- you just know how fantastic Google Maps is. In Toronto, Google Maps even has maps for the subterranean pedestrian tunnels (the PATH) in Toronto. They even map the alleyways between buildings -- things that aren't even in the best traditional paper maps.

Apple Maps has so much less information it's not even funny. Within my first one hour of playing with it, I found no less than three MAJOR inaccuracies in Toronto.

1. Apple Maps says Canada's Walk of Fame is on Queens Quay at Yonge St. It's not. It's at King & Simcoe... over a mile away!
2. Apple Maps doesn't even acknowledge the existence of the Toronto island airport -- which is a major commuter flight hub (some apple fanboy fool will likely say this airport is unimportant or something ridiculous)
3. But even more hilarious, is Toronto Lester B. Pearson International Airport has been apparently rebranded to "Trans Capital Air 1".

These aren't minor inconveniences. These maps are absolutely useless for anything more than basic street navigation. But MapQuest did basic street navigation in 1999. This isn't 1999. But that's apparently where Apple has decided to take us in their spat with Google.

For shame.

I cancelled my reservation for an iPhone 5. If the Google Maps app magically appears in the AppStore in the next few weeks, maybe I'll re-order an iPhone 5 -- I'm heavily invested in the iOS ecosystem. I still like the OS. But failing that, I'm probably going to go buy a Galaxy Nexus or something.

This is just too painful.
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Adding my vote to remove apple maps - it's absolutely appalling.
I struggle to understand why a company like Apple make so many fundamental mistakes, they won't be a leader in 5 years if they stay like this.
 
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