Map gate is real!

[Tubamajuba]

"They are both correct. Android takes you to the Manhattan address while iOS takes you to the Brooklyn address. 15th St. is Marlborough St."

From a friend that lives in the area

Hey, none of this "logic" nonsense!

Seriously though, I understand how lacking Apple's map data is in many locations. But not every perceived discrepancy is real, as this picture points out. The problem is, enough of Apple's data is flawed to where people tend to side with Google when there are discrepancies. I have no doubt that Apple's maps will be exponentially better in a year or so, but that's a long time for people to be fed up with bad or nonexistent data.

Until then, I'm sure people have already determined whether or not Apple's maps are useful for their location. For me, it certainly gets the job done, and I'm thankful for that.

 

[stickybuns]

I was able to find the same location by entering "315 East 15th Street, New York City, New York."

 

[Fernandez21]

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Take a look at what happened to Maps.


I did the same test myself inside of Maps and what do you know, take a look at what I got. I am not sure if I am able to trust the Apple mapping solution.

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If you look at the picture, Marlborough Rd. is right before 16th St. E. Maybe Marlborough Rd. IS 15th St. Anyone from New York care to comment?

 

[BoxerGT2.5]

What I find funny is for a company who everyone defends vehemently for not adopting tech/features that are not matured yet, they take one of the most important stock apps on a smart phone and drop a immature turd on everyone. Then the fans say we have to give it time?

 

[odin]

I used the apple maps turn by turn to take us to a local winery.... After taking us off the map through some dirt roads it said to park the car and walk the rest of the way.... I'm NOT kidding.

I then loaded up google maps in safari to find that the apple maps put the winery in the middle of the freakin woods!!! I used my go to GPS to drive another 30 minutes to finally get out of the woods and back to where the winery actually was.

Needless to say ill stick with motionx GPS drive until all these kinks are worked out. I love the simplicity of apple maps and the Siri integration, but I'm staying away for now. Very disappointed.

How about posting the winery name and address so we can verify it please. As you've seen above, many are now posting half-truths and misleading things to show the failure of the app.

I've been testing it for a few days, side-by-side with a droid phone and have found it to be very good in my area though different for sure. Some of the failures of things I've seen are a result of Yelp errors rather than address errors. in other words, asking for maps to an address seems spot on, asking for maps to a "name" is more at the mercy of sites like Yelp which is slow to correct errors.

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This is a pretty good overview and response to the whole issue. It helps for people to be level-headed and to just ignore the apple AND android fan boys who do nothing but push an agenda.

http://www.mondaynote.com/2012/09/23/apple-maps/

 

[jafingi]

Apple should just have skipped Flyover, and work on the USABLE features.

Focussing on BETTER DATA, GOOD satellite images and working out all those bugs.

I don't care about Flyover, I just need a mapping solution that works like expected, and not that I have to figure out and have a cheatsheet to use.

 

[iScheme]

What I find funny is this.. If you take a second to notice it's still the same maps version as what was on beta 4... If you go to icloud.com it's still using google maps, for one reason.. THEY HAVEN'T UPDATED THE SYSTEM TO USE THEIR NEWEST VERSION OF MAPS YET.

Maybe it's too much to expect from people now days, but damn, stop whining.

 

[Tubamajuba]

What I find funny is for a company who everyone defends vehemently for not adopting tech/features that are not matured yet, they take one of the most important stock apps on a smart phone and drop a immature turd on everyone. Then the fans say we have to give it time?

You know... it's possible to believe that Apple's map data is currently subpar while still believing that it will get better over time. I'm not going to make excuses for Apple, but what's so bad about pointing out that things will get better?

No doubt this creates a lot of pain for everybody involved. Bad maps for many people, bad PR for Apple, etc. I'm convinced that Apple would have sucked it up and kept Google Maps if they didn't think they could do a superior job, corporate politics aside. They clearly think they've got something special, and I'm curious to see where this goes. In the meantime, I think we can all agree that a native Google Maps app would be nice

 

[i-John]

its a database people. maybe after apple has 8 years to perfect it like google, itll be near perfect, jesus, i wish we could go back to googlemaps on their first year and see how "imperfect" it was.


give it a chance people, good god....

I don't ever remember Google giving a completely different address than what you searched for.

 

[maflynn]

There's already a number of thread regarding iOS 6 Maps. Please use the existing map thread found here:
https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/1385928/