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It's also a pain that every transit point is marked with the same icon. Was just in London and had to zoom and move around quite a lot to find stations, and the manually tapping them to get the name. As I'm not from London, I had to see on the tube maps for similar names so I would know where to get off. Other than that, London was much better mapped this weekend than just two weekends ago. Good!
Have to agree there...third party apps seem to do much better at showing graphics specific to the transit being utilized.
Always frustrating arguing with fanboys who don't know London.
1) you are pointing to the rail stop, I clearly referenced the tube
2) hard to blame you for trying to defend apple (although you clearly don't know east London) as they use the same labels for tube and rail.
3 ) Bethnal green tube station is at the corner Of bethnal green rd/Cambridge Heath rd. on any decent map that is. It's not on crapple maps.
So what is going on with many iPhones not showing the 3D updates yet?
My iPad 3 has been showing the expanded 3D coverage in NYC and the improved bridges since last week. My iPhone 4s is still stuck with the old 3D data. I've tried rebooting, no luck.
Not an urgent need or anything, but I'm wondering if someone has info on this.
My iPad 3 has been showing the expanded 3D coverage in NYC and the improved bridges since last week. My iPhone 4s is still stuck with the old 3D data. I've tried rebooting, no luck.
Not an urgent need or anything, but I'm wondering if someone has info on this.
If Apple needs to crowd source something as elementary as a tube map of London they are in deep trouble. I will never use these maps, and won't invest time doing Apple's work.
Grow up a little bit. Googles were the same. People added places to their maps when they were crap.
Google's maps were never this awful. This is one of the most crucial things to get right (roads and local stations) and Apple doesn't manage even for London. If it was a random corner shop that was missing I would agree; but not elementary infrastructure. Lack of tube stops youmcan trust render these maps unusable in London.
But hey, this station opened only in 1946. Lets give Apple some time to catch up with post-war Britain.
That's just false, the maps when google first released them were pretty terrible, barely listen any waypoints and the satellite imagery was essentially unusable. It's taken 7 years to get them where they are now. I'm willing to give Apple least a few months, even a year before I call it unusable. Hyperbole just makes you look silly btw.
Even in the good old days Google Maps had some very precise maps that included all Railway and Subway stations - they didn't cover a lot of areas but, at least, they did have something like the Wall Street (2/3) Subway Station in Manhattan - something Apple Maps still haven't got.
Even now google's satellite images for where I live still show it as a few built houses and the rest as a building site approx 9 years back, whereas apples shows it as a fully completed housing estate, as it was completed 6 years ago.... Apparently it's a mistake and if you go on via a browser and fiddle with it, you get something more recent, but after 4 years of multiple people reporting this to google, they still haven't fixed it. Apple maps, in the beta, had the road layout from the old army base for where I live, we reported this and they fixed it in 2 days...
Those who are angry have a right to be angry.
Those who are willing to be patient and see the good in Apple Maps have that right to.
Why we keep beating up on each other about this I will never know.
I predict that in a year Apple Maps will be amazing, but that is not today, and how people deal with today is their choice.
Those who are willing to be patient and see the good in Apple Maps have that right to.
Why we keep beating up on each other about this I will never know.
I predict that in a year Apple Maps will be amazing, but that is not today, and how people deal with today is their choice.
Satelite imagery is hardly the most important feature, although Apples black and white pictures of major British towns are a bit odd. The first google maps iteration did not suffer from te same, widespread errors and oddities as Apple; but that is still a stupid argument. Why anyone should accept to regress to the quality of Google maps 7 years ago (and even below that) is beyond me.
Finding the closest tube stop (or navigating from one) is arguably one of the most common uses of maps in London; for this Apple maps are totally unreliable.
Strangely (just to add to my above post), the Satellite and Flyover on my iPhone are newer (summertime) pics. On my iPad I still get the "old" wintertime satellite images (no Flyover). Why (and how) would Apple have two different satellite versions being pushed out at the same time???
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I lived in the apts right there in the 70s! Cool! I found my old house in Vinings too.
Are you getting the new (Flyover) or old (3D) view versions and do you have iPad or iPhone? I'm still getting new on my iPhone and the old on my iPad. Is there any way to force Maps to with to the new views?
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Not that I know of... but I wouldn't worry about it. The same thing happened when they added flyover to more of NYC (my reference point was the statue of liberty). Some people had it, some didn't. I checked mine immediately when I saw the news... nope. I checked it the next day... nope. I checked it the next day... nope. I forgot about it, then a week later thought "oh yeah.. lemme see" and eureka! It was there! So just don't focus on it, and likely next time that you actually need it, it'll be there. As they say a watched pot never boils
They added some smaller cities near my location to flyover. Pretty cool!
EDIT: They actually added a LOT more to flyover in Colorado.
EDIT: They actually added a LOT more to flyover in Colorado.