Must've done something wrong. I search for food and I get all the restaurants in the area.
Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Do Maps still suck?
- Thread starter sakau2007
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
Must've done something wrong. I search for food and I get all the restaurants in the area.
Your post really didn't contain any other info. What was your point? Is no POI's for food in your area a limitation of Apple Maps?
I just found out the article from the magazine regard WWDC they didn't say about Apple Map and rumor says there are many people are leaving Map department due to management problem. So Map will not be better in the future.
So, in order to be "objective" you have to first share the opinion that Apple "blew it"?
WRT Google Maps, it's hardly infallible and nor what I would regard as "the great" app. It has quite a few faults of its own. If anything, you should thankful that Apple Maps came out, since Google launched an improved mapping app for iOS not too long afterwards that now maintains a better degree of feature parity with the Android app than before.
Compared to the situation we had with iOS 5, the mapping options are far better now.
Apple Maps debuted in September 2012. When you wrote this post, it had been less than TWO years.
What city do you live in, and is there a specific bug that you can point out that has remained unfixed after "several years"? If there's incorrect map data, have you reported any of it to Apple? Even "the great google maps" relies on community participation to keep its data accurate.
In my experience, it took Apple forever to correct errors in the mapping app until about the early part of this year. Now, they are getting fixed and updated much faster. The first group of errors I submitted to Apple in early 2013 took over six months before the first one got addressed. My most recent submittals took less than a week to get corrected. Even a bizarre bug with Siri misidentifying the locations of city halls got fixed less than a month after I reported it.
Maps is at a point where I hardly ever refer to Google Maps anymore. Recently spent a week in the Dallas area and relied on Apple Maps the entire time. Aside from a closed exit in a construction zone, it correctly directed me everywhere I needed to go. Didn't open Google Maps once.
----------
I just found out the article from the magazine regard WWDC they didn't say about Apple Map and rumor says there are many people are leaving Map department due to management problem. So Map will not be better in the future.
It won't be improved at all in the future? It's just going to stay the same forever and ever?
Nope, still sucks. Horrible POI database aside, the app itself is infuriating. I can't zoom or pan around my route? Come on man, it's 2014 already. How can a company with so many resources be this bad at something so basic?
Every once in a while, I try Apple Maps again. And every time, without fail, it either takes me way out of my way, or it drops me at the wrong destination. I live in an urban area--this isn't that hard.
At least, it isn't for Google Maps. Or Navigon.
Apple's Maps is in the same "why can't I delete this?" folder on my devices as most of the other stock apps at this point. At least the others aren't quite as dangerous; the neighborhood I found myself lost in on one memorable-for-the-wrong-reasons journey earlier this year was sketchy at best. The most recent one merely presented me with a half mile walk to actually reach my destination, because for some dumb reason I thought for sure the restaurant had to be at least somewhat close to where Maps said it was, and kept walking instead of going back for the car. Too bad I didn't have the Health app tracking my steps. LOL
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, it's my own fault for using an inferior app!
At least, it isn't for Google Maps. Or Navigon.
Apple's Maps is in the same "why can't I delete this?" folder on my devices as most of the other stock apps at this point. At least the others aren't quite as dangerous; the neighborhood I found myself lost in on one memorable-for-the-wrong-reasons journey earlier this year was sketchy at best. The most recent one merely presented me with a half mile walk to actually reach my destination, because for some dumb reason I thought for sure the restaurant had to be at least somewhat close to where Maps said it was, and kept walking instead of going back for the car. Too bad I didn't have the Health app tracking my steps. LOL
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, it's my own fault for using an inferior app!
Same here.... I live in Florida and the other day I was driving on the Turnpike approaching an exit, just for fun I opened Apple Maps, Google Maps and Navigon.
Apple Maps is by far the worst of the three with Navigon coming in first..... Apple has ways to go before they are even close.
All I really want from Apple is letting me choose a default program.....
Last edited:
NYC - I gave it another shot yesterday and today as I prefer the map look over google's. It hasn't let me down in four different uses. One time it took a pretty odd route, other than thst it was fine. The only downside is I still have to use google for traffic, it's far more accurate.
There's no hope. Just forget that Maps exists. I did. It found its new, well deserved home in iCrap folder on the last screen.
In my area POI are non existent and inaccurate. Road data is out of date, comparatively speaking. Satellite data is waaaay out of date.
If I didnt know the roads so well I probably wouldn't notice because it can still get me from point A to point B. But I can tell its not using the fastest routes and on further investigation I can tell its not doing that because certain newer roads (1-2 year old) don't exist in its data. I think a lot of people don't realize this when traveling and say "Apple maps is great!!" only because you and it didnt know there was a better way. There is a bridge near me that Apple maps doesn't have but its a huge shortcut to use. I have an acquaintance with a 10 year old house and his entire neighborhood isn't even in Apple maps, must be 100 single family houses back there.
Integration I give it A+. Transplant Googles map data and POI in the Apple map app and I'd be fine with that. No big deal though, in the end I still have free access to Google Maps.
If I didnt know the roads so well I probably wouldn't notice because it can still get me from point A to point B. But I can tell its not using the fastest routes and on further investigation I can tell its not doing that because certain newer roads (1-2 year old) don't exist in its data. I think a lot of people don't realize this when traveling and say "Apple maps is great!!" only because you and it didnt know there was a better way. There is a bridge near me that Apple maps doesn't have but its a huge shortcut to use. I have an acquaintance with a 10 year old house and his entire neighborhood isn't even in Apple maps, must be 100 single family houses back there.
Integration I give it A+. Transplant Googles map data and POI in the Apple map app and I'd be fine with that. No big deal though, in the end I still have free access to Google Maps.
Just this week, I tried using the Maps app with Siri in my car for the first time. I wanted directions to the nearest Dunkin Donuts, and Siri couldn't find the one I wanted. She kept giving me directions for one that was 30 miles away. I also couldn't get Siri's voice directions to work no matter what I tried.
FUD. You do know that both Google and Apple use the same traffic aggregation company - Sigalert? I see the same errors and traffic reporting in exactly the same places 100% of the time.
The only other wildcard for Google is Waze, which I also use - and it just isn't that accurate.
I've been using Apple Maps for navigation in my car since I got my 6 (mainly because it auto-dims at night) and it's been fine
Still not as mature as Google maps but definitely not a disaster
Still not as mature as Google maps but definitely not a disaster
Google Maps is far better at returning an address when I search for the name of a business. Meaning, Google consistently delivers a result and Apple doesn't seem to even try.
However, when entering an address manually, three separate times over the past few years I have had Google locate that address incorrectly. I entered the address correctly, and it displayed correctly, but it dropped the pin and navigated me to a location several miles away. One of those times I went back and checked Google Maps on the desktop and it showed the same incorrect location.
Meanwhile, Apple maps has always been correct.
However, when entering an address manually, three separate times over the past few years I have had Google locate that address incorrectly. I entered the address correctly, and it displayed correctly, but it dropped the pin and navigated me to a location several miles away. One of those times I went back and checked Google Maps on the desktop and it showed the same incorrect location.
Meanwhile, Apple maps has always been correct.
Apple maps still has some issues in my area of the east coast U.S. I think it is related to the fact that the same street will go through multiple towns in very close succession and they reuse street numbers.
So, for example, if I look at my house on Apple map, I see a bagel shop right around the corner, as well as a liquor store, etc. But, I live in a dry town. The bagel shop and liquor store and other POI listed are actually from a town about 3 miles further down the main road, where the street numbers recycle.
So, for example, if I look at my house on Apple map, I see a bagel shop right around the corner, as well as a liquor store, etc. But, I live in a dry town. The bagel shop and liquor store and other POI listed are actually from a town about 3 miles further down the main road, where the street numbers recycle.