... and everybody asks in 2023 why Google had that for 7 years and Apple not.
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I agree with you - but, Apple Maps has come a long way and it looks so much better
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All of these features in the article are welcome, but more of “it’s about time”. I appreciate you pointing this one out, as I hope to be a priority in the next update!
Very pleased they've brought back the option for voice volume. Now they just need to change the tiny touch targets for changing voice>alert>silent.
They are beginning to expand beyond Yelp. I’ve seen some locations have what appears to be an Apple rating/reviews service
I just looked it up. Holy crap that is impressive
I certainly can't prove you wrong for your usage.
But, as I've posted before, a part of very road I live on is omitted from Google maps (the bit that serves me), and a bit further down, the road is shown entirely incorrectly. Apple is absolutely correct to well within 3 metres.
This is not a brand new road - at least 10 years old. You can see the mismatch between Google maps and their own satellite/aerial view.
Indeed, if I go round my town using Google maps overlaid with satellite/aerial, I can see lots of places where they diverge. Sometimes only slightly, often a whole lane (e.g. the right lane appears where the left lane is, and the left lane is shoved over onto the pavement/whatever is alongside). And sometimes worse.
The accuracy of Apple is stunningly good.
I've seen both Apple and Google camera cars in town within the past few years.
The biggest thing I’m missing from Apple Maps is the ability to lock North as “up“ when navigating, which is a feature in every other GPS app or device I've ever used. Having the map instead constantly rotate around me is admittedly prettier, but it’s way more cognitive load when actually trying to use the map as a map and not just blindly following directions.
After few years I tried Apple Maps → I really like the fresh interface, but … the traffic information is sadly not even close to Google maps. I use it daily to choose the route to commute, so it's essential to me.
Apple Maps is excellent for navigation and has a much nicer UI than Google Maps, but Apple needs to buy some big database and merge it into their own to at least try to match what Google has.
You have to admit. Apple Maps have come a long way. The details are astonishing! Just mind-blown.
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Amazing attention to detail.
100%! And I'm awaiting the day where I will have no reason to even open the Gmaps app
The reason I don't use the maps app is because while I'm driving and zoom out, to get a wider view, from the zoom setting that Apple wants me to use, it zooms right back into what Apple wants.
In other words I can't use it like I want to. They should leave it alone and let me use whatever zoom I want.
But hey, Apple always knows best...
In other words I can't use it like I want to. They should leave it alone and let me use whatever zoom I want.
But hey, Apple always knows best...
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Could you wish that Apple will stick with the same base specs in the next generation of Macs then? And wish against an iPad Mini Pro? And that I won't win the next Powerball? Supermodels won't bang on my door looking for love? My DNA won't spontaneously reset to about 25 years old to effectively de-age me physically? Foolish wars keep raging? Cures won't come in favor of forever treatments? Star Trek replicators & transporters (or very similar) will never come? The planet's own health won't have some kind of miracle reset to as it was pre-industrial revolution? The wealth of the world will keep consolidating to fewer and fewer people?
That's a good start!
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when i visited Denver CO a month ago, Google maps recommendations was freaking amazing, it was showing me lots of options for restaurants and places to visit, Apple Maps didn't do anything, very boring.
One thing I’ve always hated about AM… you’re on a route and realize you need to go somewhere after your set destination and want to know how long it’ll add to whole route… add stop only allows something to be added before your currently input stop, not after. So you have to cancel current route, recreate it, and add the other stops you want. Wish they allowed rearranging stops while in middle of a current route.
I use Apple Maps daily & welcome all of these changes (esp. travel mode as buttons, rather than a drop-down - I walk, cycle and drive!)
I far prefer the interface to all others, but Google does - perhaps understandably - always have better commercial listings for shops, bars, restaurants etc.
I far prefer the interface to all others, but Google does - perhaps understandably - always have better commercial listings for shops, bars, restaurants etc.
Was well impressed with Apple maps today. Went to two places - one we visited several years ago, the other we've never been to. The maps showed the narrow roadway into/out of the car parks accurately. These are fairly small car parks - not like big supermarket or public car parks. The only mistake it made was saying that the place was on the right of the road when it is on the left! But the map was correct.
It isn't so much that the navigation was so important, but I was reassured that when it told me to turn left, it knew that I had reached the public road. In the past, with various satnavs, it has not always been clear whether it thinks you are still in the car park or not.
It isn't so much that the navigation was so important, but I was reassured that when it told me to turn left, it knew that I had reached the public road. In the past, with various satnavs, it has not always been clear whether it thinks you are still in the car park or not.