Geez, just use the waze app people! I love this app, given that it still has its quirks, but i love how it tells me where there are cops and traffic cams
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Australian Police Warn Against Use of Apple Maps Due to Safety Concerns
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Heresy? You're saying Apple is a religion and anything said against them is heresy?
Serious, if Google were to sue, we would get this thing called "discovery" where they ask what they want to see, and Apple gives it to them. If evidence disappears, the judge will just assume that the disappearing evidence would have been against the one who lost it.
So something like what you suggested is _not_ going to happen.
Haha, didn't realize my phone corrected it to Heresy. What I meant was "Hearsay" much different than heresy.
Either way, I was entirely joking. Of course there is discovery, IP address records, etc; could all easily implicate Apple for doing this. If you didn't pick up on that then you take ridiculous statements too seriously.
This article explains what happened pretty good.Lol.
Opps... Thats a fair distance..
Are the police only targeting Apple's Maps, coz theirs a whole bunch of other map apps out there that are not correct either
But, i can see its FROM the Australian police... No other would be that dumb.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/10/apple_maps_ghost_mildura/
Ah, no, you're entirely wrong. Google doesn't sell your data, it uses it to customize the advertising you see.
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Lol.
Opps... Thats a fair distance..
Are the police only targeting Apple's Maps, coz theirs a whole bunch of other map apps out there that are not correct either
But, i can see its FROM the Australian police... No other would be that dumb.
You should read the article. It says that the police are complaining that they have to rescue people who got lost. The people in question are lost because they used Apple maps.
A few years ago a cnet employee died in the mountains of California. He got stuck after following a electronic map. I don't remember the details but the map was wrong.
This made me chuckle, and I totally agree.
I have not used a paper map since at least 2005. Back then, I started using Telenav on my Sanyo/Samsung Sprint flip phone. When I graduated to a smartphone in 2007, I used Google Maps on BlackBerry. When I got my first iPhone in 2009, I used Apple's Google Maps app exclusively.
Apple Maps under iOS 6 has given me more problems in terms of bad directions, bad location of POIs, and just plain weird issues (like having St. Augustine Beach, FL spelled in Korean on an otherwise English map) than ALL of the other navigation apps I've used on cell phones for the past seven years COMBINED.
Why should I now, in 2012, all of a sudden be expected to consistently check alternate sources to make sure Apple Maps is correct when I haven't had to do that with any other navigation app I've used since 2005?
They had a Rand McNally Atlas. It's a tragic story but GPS or any kind of electronic map is not why they got lost.
I search for my local museum by specific name.
It gives me the name of the other museum we have, which has a specifically different name. 6km in the wrong direction. On top of a hill.
Also, our airport is in the middle of our CBD.
It gives me the name of the other museum we have, which has a specifically different name. 6km in the wrong direction. On top of a hill.
Also, our airport is in the middle of our CBD.
No, they're lost because they're ignorant. The fact that they happened to have an iPhone turned it into an international news story.
I agree, if it had been about a car navigation system that failed then it wouldn't get near as much press.
But like others have said this is 2012, I remember similar stories some 10 years ago of people being stuck on dirt tracks when they took a wrong turn. Apple needs to fix Maps now and not wait 6 months or more for thew next iOS to be released.
Thank you for that pointer to a very calm, rational description of the problem.
Which in a nutshell is "prettier isn't necessarily better". But at Apple, to paraphrase Ford, "prettier is Job One".
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If they'd had a Samsung phone - no story!
They'd be in Milduras when they were expected, rather than at risk of losing their lives in the outback.No need for suicide, Apple will kill you outright.
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You're not checking a map when you plug a destination into a GPS, you're pluging a destination into a GPS. Show me any GPS that's 100% accurate and I'll give you a nice shiny quarter.
IF any person is dumb enough to start a long trip and NOT actually know where they're going they deserve to get lost.
Take the case of these people. IF they would of simply taken 1 minute to do a google search on the town to which they were attempting to travel, they would of known that it wasn't in the middle of this park and they would have known the GPS was leading them astray. "Stupid is as stupid does." Forrest Gump.
As bad as this is on Apple's behalf, I'm amazed that someone would not even look at the satellite images of their destination before going on a big trip relying on a GPS...
They probably just assumed the image was wrong and that Apple would be dumb enough to misplace a CITY.
From the reports, it will take Apple a bit of time more before all of the errors are out of their system. Apple fricked-up, big time in their mapping.
As to the people being lost, due to following an electronic device that they depended upon, solely,,, well, IMHO, they are fools. THINK!!! Quit being sheep, blindly going where a frigging device tells you to go - do some basic research up-front, look at your surroundings, whatever,,, but just think.
Darwin, you can have these fools.
Not total. It's great in southern California, and the app itself is a lot nicer than any of the Google UIs, so I can actually use it. But I hardly ever need to use Maps on my iPhone...
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You know, I'll bet an app that just searches maps from Google, Apple, and other sources all in one place and gives you all of the results (marking conflicting results) would be successful.
I'm sure that google has tons of data that if harvested will be a dead give away of where it came from. Slight mis spellings, completely false information. Catching data thieves is nothing new, and the fact that you think a company like apple would even think about it is absurd. Yes, google is way better at this than apple. No, there isn't a chance in hell they would even think about stealing their data.