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Google Map or Apple Map?
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Does anyone know when Google will release their own Maps app? I've heard that Apple Maps doesn't have walking or public transit directions. This is a deal breaker for me. I also like street view and use it a lot, and find Flyover to be a crappy and useless consolation prize for the loss of street view. I'm not a fan of the "give it time" argument when in the indefinite meantime features have been taken away from me. I will probably avoid upgrading to iOS6 until I get a decent replacement app from Google.
Isn't Apple's solution based on an open platform that can receive input/corrections from all users? If so, can users do so easily from within Apple's maps in iOS 6?
Apple making it easy for 100 million iPhone users to make updates/corrections to the maps would bring the maps up to par with Google Maps in terms of accuracy very quickly.
Apple making it easy for 100 million iPhone users to make updates/corrections to the maps would bring the maps up to par with Google Maps in terms of accuracy very quickly.
Well...it's a good thing you don't think YOU represent millions of users...
I bet there are a million people that could find individual issues they might have with Google Maps.
Just search for "Google map errors"
This one was one of my favorites.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...arks-invasion-of-Costa-Rica-by-Nicaragua.html
Well...it's a good thing you don't think YOU represent millions of users...
I bet there are a million people that could find individual issues they might have with Google Maps.
Just search for "Google map errors"
This one was one of my favorites.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...arks-invasion-of-Costa-Rica-by-Nicaragua.html
That's a ridiculous counter example. All I'm saying is that Apple Maps in terms of raw data, detail, and functionality is remarkably inferior to that of Google Maps. Try to contend that with evidence and reason; you won't be able to.
Well if maps is all the is holding you to IOS, then you should go to droid. I wouldn't choose a phone over a maps solution.
That's a ridiculous counter example. All I'm saying is that Apple Maps in terms of raw data, detail, and functionality is remarkably inferior to that of Google Maps. Try to contend that with evidence and reason; you won't be able to.
You mean the evidence listed on this forum for a maps program that isn't even officially released yet?
"My Podunk town isn't listed properly."
"My favorite dinkwad coffee shop is listed down the street from where it actually is."
All these complaints are blips and MILLIONS of people will NOT care...
Apple Maps will benefit customers in the long run. However, I do agree that apple maps is not ready for release and it will piss many people off.
It is unusual for apple to release something so...half baked. But Steve is gone now, so what I can say..
My mom loves 3D and finds it to be really fun. I think you can get lost exploring for a while. This simple test tells me this could be big!
This is why I think Apple maps are superior. They are fun and can be educational about the world around us.
This is why I think Apple maps are superior. They are fun and can be educational about the world around us.
The new maps is inferior to the old maps. They are both vastly inferior to Google maps on android though.
Apple maps doesn't have street view = a big no no.
Satellite images in Apple maps are OLD, heck my neighborhood is not even built on Apple maps satellite images.
So far is a big F on my books
Not to mention that 3D building in New York takes too long to load on my iPad 3, google earth is way faster browsing satellite images. 10mb wifi.
Apple maps just sucks, thank God I didn't installed this on my iPhone
Satellite images in Apple maps are OLD, heck my neighborhood is not even built on Apple maps satellite images.
So far is a big F on my books
Not to mention that 3D building in New York takes too long to load on my iPad 3, google earth is way faster browsing satellite images. 10mb wifi.
Apple maps just sucks, thank God I didn't installed this on my iPhone
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The yell integration for places in the UK is awful! Businesses in the wrong place, business that have been closed for 3 years still showing, tube stations missing! I know this will improve with time but the number of errors I have found on a half mile stretch of road is crazy!
Same here in Melbourne. Showing train stations that closed in the 80s and not showing ones built in the last year.
My TomTom with IQ Routes has taken me on some pretty dodgy routes. I've only ever used Google Maps for short journeys whereas I've driven around the country with my TomTom. Google Maps has never let me down, but as I only have limited experience with it for navigation it's difficult to say whether it's more reliable or not.
TomTom is nothing special though.
I'm starting to wonder if the development copies of ios6 (I'm assuming that's what you're using) allow iphone4 to use turn by turn and the public release won't. I keep reading elsewhere that iphone 4 is not supported. There isn't much point to this update for me if I can't get turn by turn.
I'll just bide my time for now.
Hmm... Well I know they just released a new version giving us the ability to submit corrections to their maps. I'm really really loving them and kinda wish Apple had chosen to use them for their Maps solution.