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Is there anything we, (the community) can do to help Apple maps?
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One word: competition. Apple makes Windows-compatible versions of iTunes only because otherwise, they would sell a lot less iPods, iPads and iPhones.
Perfect and hilarious analogy....
I think there are too many sheep in the Apple orchard.....
Dear Apple,
I have weekends off. If you want to pay me a nice chunk of change, I will comb over every inch of my hometown to make your app better. But don't you dare think I'm going to do this for free. You've made a lot of money off of me already, and I'm not about to become your free developer.
If you are willing to pay, let's talk.
I have weekends off. If you want to pay me a nice chunk of change, I will comb over every inch of my hometown to make your app better. But don't you dare think I'm going to do this for free. You've made a lot of money off of me already, and I'm not about to become your free developer.
If you are willing to pay, let's talk.
Dear Apple,
I'll work for half of what Italianblend will charge you. Unfortunately, with my town being a complete disaster, it will likely take me 4-5x longer to fix your maps so I'll end up costing you significantly more in the long term.
I am, however, open to working for stock options.
It's not their mapping system, it's ours.
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Both your hometowns will stay wrong then and it'll be your faults.
It's not their mapping system, it's ours.
No, it's theirs. If it is ours I'll be happy to collect my share of the dough Apple make from it.
At least they have you where they want you.
Actually so far the new maps has been OK for me, but the more I use it, the more errors in POI's I find. Thus I am less impressed now than I was initially. Also, I am annoyed that I have taken the time to submit corrections and not one of them has been acted on. To my way of thinking, that's just disrespectful of Apple and its mapping partners.
Fundamentally, though, I think the issue is not so much Apple per se, but the partners from which they have licensed software. I think Yelp is complete crap where I am, so why on earth are Apple relying on them for anything? That same thing with Siri - Nuance is such an awful company that I am surprised that Apple partnered with them (Ever try to order an upgrade of Dragon Dictate from the Nuance UK web site? I dare you to try.)
Apple should have used its cash reserves to develop solutions from scratch, or they should have bought companies outright and whipped them into shape. Licensing software, as Apple have done, has simply allowed the QC issues of second-rate companies infect Apple's brand.
Fundamentally, though, I think the issue is not so much Apple per se, but the partners from which they have licensed software. I think Yelp is complete crap where I am, so why on earth are Apple relying on them for anything? That same thing with Siri - Nuance is such an awful company that I am surprised that Apple partnered with them (Ever try to order an upgrade of Dragon Dictate from the Nuance UK web site? I dare you to try.
)Apple should have used its cash reserves to develop solutions from scratch, or they should have bought companies outright and whipped them into shape. Licensing software, as Apple have done, has simply allowed the QC issues of second-rate companies infect Apple's brand.
The maps have been great for me. I travel quite a bit in my job and I go to many rural area and so far the maps have been spot on.
Both your hometowns will stay wrong then and it'll be your faults.
It's time to write the book: Lonely Planet - the list of Places You shouldn't go using Apple Maps.
(Will also work for stock options!)
That's pretty much what they did... They bought C3 technologies, PlaceBase, Poly 9. Then they used their massive cash reserves to secure mapping data (not software, data) from TomTom and used the distributed OpenStreetMaps project for other areas TomTom couldn't cover.
They all built this on infrastructure that was internal to them, in their own data centers, they built the software that runs it all.
And this was the result. That's because building a solid mapping application, integrating the data from 3rd parties and making sure it's highly available to millions of users is not a walk in the park. It's hard. Google didn't just get it right on day 1, they've worked on it for 7 years now (even more considering they bought a company that was already doing mapping).
It's not their mapping system, it's ours.
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Both your hometowns will stay wrong then and it'll be your faults.
Wrong... There are many map apps (Apple has a list for you) and they are all accurate. Why not just use one of them. And by the way, it is a myth to think users really helped Google maps. Google developed their mapping system through hard work and hiring thousands of people on the ground, analysis of all sorts of cartographic work already published.
It is a myth that to have a good app, the users must contribute.
How sad for Apple....
There is no excuse, in this day and age, to have a map program that fails so miserably to give correct directions and is so inaccurate. There is no excuse not to have the data in place before selling it to the public under ios6..
That Cook concedes other mapping programs offered in the App store are better than Apple's own map app, and that these third-party apps are accurate and easy to use, only further demonstrates the lack of caring Apple showed to its customers. There is no need, in this day and age, with all the mapping technology and data out there, for Apple to have any of these problems. Tim Cook, by suggesting users download other mapping programs that actually perform correctly, is also admitting that there are products out there they don't need the users' help and input to run correctly.
Perhaps they should stop there litigious behavior and concentrate on producing quality products.
Yes, if you want to it to take 5 years instead of 5 months.
No amount of resources could ever match every iOS 6 user in the world.
Not true - users did help Google Maps evolve. The fact that Africa is mapped in Google is largely because of user participation through their Map Maker. The most recent example is Afghanistan & Iraq - info here:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_maps_adds_new_crowdsourced_maps_of_afghanis.php
In the US the Map Maker is mainly used to expand their POI database:
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/google_map_maker_comes_to_the_US.php
In most cases - but if the app is reliant on user input and editions, not so much a myth.