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Maps potential

Crazy Badger

Crazy Badger

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I know, another iOS6 maps thread but I just wanted to try and add some balance to the doom and gloom :D

I think everyone would agree that in many areas there is still significant work required, but when it's good it's very very good and way ahead of anything I ever saw on gmaps

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I've done several journeys from installing the first beta and its been spot on for me. Apart from a few misplaced POI's its been great.

I'll be using it again at the weekend.

Would be good if this thread was just positive comments but I fear it will get ******* on in 3. 2. 1.....
 
See. They can't ****ing help but come into a thread thats trying to show some positives.

I'm getting sick of the people on this forum.
 
MonkeySee.... said:
See. They can't ****ing help but come into a thread thats trying to show some positives.

I'm getting sick of the people on this forum.
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I can't imagine it is that much more irritating than someone posting about the fact that their entire town is a couple of hundred miles out or that all of the data around them is wrong and someone then posts "You're talking rubbish, the maps are FANTASTIC - look - I can see the Houses of Parliament in 3D"
 
Gatteau said:
Again, not everyone lives in the US.
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What's that got to do with trying to keep this thread positive?

Don't post if you have nothing positive to say?

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Foggy said:
I can't imagine it is that much more irritating than someone posting about the fact that their entire town is a couple of hundred miles out or that all of the data around them is wrong and someone then posts "You're talking rubbish, the maps are FANTASTIC - look - I can see the Houses of Parliament in 3D"
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There are issues but this thread is to draw on the positives.

FFS guys. Is it really that hard to understand?? :confused:
 
MonkeySee.... said:
What's that got to do with trying to keep this thread positive?

Don't post if you have nothing positive to say?

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There are issues but this thread is to draw on the positives.

FFS guys. Is it really that hard to understand?? :confused:
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I don't think it's hard to understand, but people are perhaps frustrated at your attempts to polish a turd.

Of course maps has potential. Apple are rich, and have the resources to devote to really make a great maps function. But most people don't want to be guinea pigs to the whole process, especially when they have been used to the far far superior google maps.
 
MonkeySee.... said:
What's that got to do with trying to keep this thread positive?

Don't post if you have nothing positive to say?

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There are issues but this thread is to draw on the positives.

FFS guys. Is it really that hard to understand?? :confused:
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I would LOVE to see some positives. The navigation is great, but there is no way in hell I would use it because the maps are so inaccurate. Other than the navigation and the 'woohooo' 5 second toy that is 3D flyover view, no matter how hard I try and no matter how big an Apple fan I am, I cannot find a single positive in the map app.
 
MonkeySee.... said:
See. They can't ****ing help but come into a thread thats trying to show some positives.

I'm getting sick of the people on this forum.
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It's just the nature of them. Look at the Macbook Pro forum when Apple launched Retina Mac. I mean it's the best notebook in the world and what do we got? Threads after threads of whining.

PS: From what's posted on here I thought it will be pretty bad. To my surprise, it's almost the same as Google one in iOS 5 and I don't even be in the US or UK.
 
Heb 7:4 said:
I don't think it's hard to understand, but people are perhaps frustrated at your attempts to polish a turd.

Of course maps has potential. Apple are rich, and have the resources to devote to really make a great maps function. But most people don't want to be guinea pigs to the whole process, especially when they have been used to the far far superior google maps.
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Foggy said:
I would LOVE to see some positives. The navigation is great, but there is no way in hell I would use it because the maps are so inaccurate. Other than the navigation and the 'woohooo' 5 second toy that is 3D flyover view, no matter how hard I try and no matter how big an Apple fan I am, I cannot find a single positive in the map app.
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Well there you go.

Thanks for ruining the thread. I'll get a Mod to lock it seeing as people can't stay out. :(
 
matrix07 said:
It's just the nature of them. Look at the Macbook Pro forum when Apple launched Retina Mac. I mean it's the best notebook in the world and what do we got? Threads after threads of whining.
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I love apple. I've never complained about an update before in my life, let alone rolled back to a previous version as I have this time. This isn't about it being in people's natures to whine, this is about apple making a (bizarrely) bad decision, and people being justifiably upset.

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MonkeySee.... said:
Well there you go.

Thanks for ruining the thread. I'll get a Mod to lock it seeing as people can't stay out. :(
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Blimey, do you need to sulk because apple released a bit of a dog turd? Of course there are positives. Of course it can be fixed. There's nothing wrong with talking of the potential, it's just a bit bonkers to do it without accepting that the reason we're talking about the potential is because the current version really isn't very good.
 
Heb 7:4 said:
I don't think it's hard to understand, but people are perhaps frustrated at your attempts to polish a turd.

Of course maps has potential. Apple are rich, and have the resources to devote to really make a great maps function. But most people don't want to be guinea pigs to the whole process, especially when they have been used to the far far superior google maps.
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What is far far superior?

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Heb 7:4 said:
Blimey, do you need to sulk because apple released a bit of a dog turd? Of course there are positives. Of course it can be fixed. There's nothing wrong with talking of the potential, it's just a bit bonkers to do it without accepting that the reason we're talking about the potential is because the current version really isn't very good.
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Are you seriously not getting the point of this thread :confused:
 
Heb 7:4 said:
I love apple. I've never complained about an update before in my life, let alone rolled back to a previous version as I have this time. This isn't about it being in people's natures to whine, this is about apple making a (bizarrely) bad decision, and people being justifiably upset.
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But you have to understand that not every one outside US or UK has the same awful experience as you. Can you accept that? If you can, please kindly leave this thread and continue your .... in the proper thread.
 
matrix07 said:
What is far far superior?
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Great. Now try pretty much any town in the UK. I live in London, one of the major cities in the world, and it is awful. I go out walking in the country with my dog every weekend. Apple doesn't even have major towns in the right place. We aren't talking a pin a little out, we are talking whole towns moved miles away.
 
Flyover is a flashy feature but that's all it is.

Flyover will never be in my list of considerations when choosing a maps app- accuracy of maps and turn by turn would be highest and Apple sucks at both at present.

Also, the maps need more colour to separate things.
 
Heb 7:4 said:
Great. Now try pretty much any town in the UK. I live in London, one of the major cities in the world, and it is awful. I go out walking in the country with my dog every weekend. Apple doesn't even have major towns in the right place. We aren't talking a pin a little out, we are talking whole towns moved miles away.
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Read post #18.
 
matrix07 said:
But you have to understand that not every one outside US or UK has the same awful experience as you. Can you accept that? If you can, please kindly leave this thread and continue your .... in the proper thread.
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Well yes, of course. I imagine it's great for Cupertino for example. I'm not angry, as I've gone back to 5.1.1 which is brilliant and I'm happy to wait for apple to sort things out. It's just a bit ridiculous to encounter people objecting to legitimate complaints, or suggesting people are being overtly critical purely because it's in their nature to be so. They really aren't.

The maps app, with apple's power and money and drive, obviously has huge potential, but that shouldn't paper over the reality that it simply isn't in a state that you would have expected for such a major change.
 
TomTom are to blame.

As a long time TomTom app user, I can tell you their maps are shockingly out of date.

One example? There's a roundabout near me been there for 15 years. FIFTEEN YEARS! and STILL TomTom haven't acknowledged it...

...Google have :D
 
TomTom are a bit bad, but apple surely have the muscle to buy data locally which would be really exciting. Some reports I saw (I think from China) that apple maps is more detailed already than google maps, based on whoever apple purchased there. They won't get Streetview this way, but that isn't so big a deal. Just get the roads and the place names right, and as much detail as possible on the maps, and it will be able to leave this whole fiasco behind in no time.
 
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