I haven't touched apple maps the seconds google maps became available for iOS again
Never going back to that junk
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My experience has be quite the opposite, Apple maps has been just as accurate as Google Maps(sometimes better). But I also acknowledge that many users have had issues.
Apple you need to hire 20 to 100 times as many people to sort out the mess that is apple maps. Sorry but here in the UK it has actually got worse!
I literally cannot find half the addresses in my phone and doesn't know where any useful points of interest are and does no attempt to autocorrect even minor spelling errors or extra S's etc.
Sorry but apple not only screwed this one up they literally have made glacial moves to correct the issues and is still among a seemingly ever growing list of useless or buggy apps on iOS, the 'it's apple it just works' saying is wasting away like a malnourished fat kid.
Sorry but I for one am starting to get annoyed at all the little things apple is missing out, surely there is someone there who is seeing this, I fine it hard to believe quality control on hardware can be so high and yet software is lagging badly. Come on apple, fingers out of bumholes please.
I literally cannot find half the addresses in my phone and doesn't know where any useful points of interest are and does no attempt to autocorrect even minor spelling errors or extra S's etc.
Sorry but apple not only screwed this one up they literally have made glacial moves to correct the issues and is still among a seemingly ever growing list of useless or buggy apps on iOS, the 'it's apple it just works' saying is wasting away like a malnourished fat kid.
Sorry but I for one am starting to get annoyed at all the little things apple is missing out, surely there is someone there who is seeing this, I fine it hard to believe quality control on hardware can be so high and yet software is lagging badly. Come on apple, fingers out of bumholes please.
Oh I see the only way for apple to correct it's maps is to open it up to public additions like google or wikipedia do.
There are so many apple fans out there who would who are fastidious and have attention to detail that info would be free and accurate. For crying out loud they use yell for business info, that all comes from the public anyway just cut out the big yellow man.
There are so many apple fans out there who would who are fastidious and have attention to detail that info would be free and accurate. For crying out loud they use yell for business info, that all comes from the public anyway just cut out the big yellow man.
Uh, why would you walk past three other Nandos just to get to the one it was directing you to?
I didn't literally walk past them and see them OBVIOUSLY. I saw we want further than their locations when i checked the Nandos app.
You are correct - in the fact that Google Maps had problems when it was first launched.
Mapping applications have moved forward. As have consumer expectations - they expect much today in mapping solutions than they did when Google Maps was released.
When Apple switched Google Maps for Apple Maps, people expected Maps to be close to, or exceeded the quality level of Google. It was what users had become accustomed to.
If Apple or anyone else is going to replace software, you don't replace a product with a pile of turd. People have expectations. Is it not unreasonable to have expected Apple Maps to be better than it initially was.
Apple Maps was initially unfit for release, particularly outside the states were the majority of the issues were.
People were rightfully upset, and I don't think Apple had much excuse for releasing what they did. Apple had a chance - they didn't need to rush it out the door. Heads rolled for this.
Apple are once again finding this out with the release of the new iWorks - Apple have managed to drop a lot of functionality from the previous version. This was of course in order to get the iOS version on par with OSX edition. But again, people are upset because the features that they enjoyed have now gone, for apparently no good reason.
Both Maps and iWorks is an example of where software, instead of improving on the previous have taken a giant leap backwards, in the eyes of the users.
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Yes, has to be the worst Nav app ever, certainly for the uk. It refuses to allow me to set my home location, insisting on placing me some distance away, even though it shows my correct wifi location. Routing is atrocious. I keep on trying it from time to time, but it drives me absolutely mad with the errors.
I like Maps on Mavericks, but there seems to be an inability to alter a route once it has chosen one.
Also its really weird with UK postcodes, refusing to accept the full UK postcode, which affects Calendar and Siri etc. Those apps won't take the full address and you have to find them on the map and add them separate, but then you find its only added half the postcode.
The complaints are not about "whining" about features. I RELY on transit and bicycle mapping directions on my iPhone to get to and from work and around the city. That's not whining...that a deficit on Apple's part.
I don't have to give any corporation "a chance" this isn't a soup kitchen. They are a tech company that provides a service. They make great products, they aren't your best friend. You owe them nothing more than your money for their products.
Why I'm excited about an improved iOS Maps in the UK...
..and am prepared to help Apple get there :
- I can use Siri to 'navigate me home' or 'give me directions to the office'
- Find friends works with it
- We don't have to put all of our trust in Google (even if their maps are currently better)
I'm not saying we should all blindly follow the Apple faith here - there should be alternatives (hence point 3 above), but I am remembering that Apple was once the underdog and people bought Macs instead of the far more widely used PCs of the time.
I really want them to bring Maps up to Google quality. Chop chop Apple (please pay attention to my feedback report and get the spelling of my street right!)
..and am prepared to help Apple get there :
- I can use Siri to 'navigate me home' or 'give me directions to the office'
- Find friends works with it
- We don't have to put all of our trust in Google (even if their maps are currently better)
I'm not saying we should all blindly follow the Apple faith here - there should be alternatives (hence point 3 above), but I am remembering that Apple was once the underdog and people bought Macs instead of the far more widely used PCs of the time.
I really want them to bring Maps up to Google quality. Chop chop Apple (please pay attention to my feedback report and get the spelling of my street right!)
I still like the idea of Apple allowing plug ins and maps being a place that could happen. Allow transit services to provide a plug in that gets you real time access to their systems so you can see current bus routes, run times etc. If they have to change a stop for a detour you see it right away. And as an overlay on your maps not a new app. Or even just allow the app to feed to maps so you can see something visually.
Rather than the current systems where they give the info to a mapping service and it can be up to six months old depending on the time of year.
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So what? You want a cookie.
If you are never going back to that junk why waste time going to an article about the junk to post that you essentially don't give a rats tail.
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Apple gets hundreds even thousands of reports a day. There is no way they can personally contact every person and thank them for their report and then contact then again to report it is fixed. That would do be a huge chunk of the time the staff should be dealing with the reports.
And often folks are complaining because they put the same feedback every week etc like they expect it to be automatically corrected. They fail to get that Apple gets tons of reports and likely deals with them in order. And that they verify each report to keep anyone from pranking them with bad info and sometimes that takes time to get answers back from valid sources and then to program the corrections and push them out.
Rather than the current systems where they give the info to a mapping service and it can be up to six months old depending on the time of year.
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So what? You want a cookie.
If you are never going back to that junk why waste time going to an article about the junk to post that you essentially don't give a rats tail.
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Apple gets hundreds even thousands of reports a day. There is no way they can personally contact every person and thank them for their report and then contact then again to report it is fixed. That would do be a huge chunk of the time the staff should be dealing with the reports.
And often folks are complaining because they put the same feedback every week etc like they expect it to be automatically corrected. They fail to get that Apple gets tons of reports and likely deals with them in order. And that they verify each report to keep anyone from pranking them with bad info and sometimes that takes time to get answers back from valid sources and then to program the corrections and push them out.
I don't think "atrocious" is the word I would use to describe the pre-iOS 6 stock Maps app. Was it lacking in turn-by-turn directions? Yes; but Google's POI database was/is a million times better than what is being used by Apple Maps today.
Prior to iOS 6, I used MotionX for turn-by-turn directions and the stock Maps app for anything that didn't require turn-by-turn (looking up a business' phone number or searching for the location of a business). Sure, I would've liked to have turn-by-turn in the stock Maps app back then; but I sure as hell didn't want what Apple Maps gives us now -- a poor POI database combined with inaccurate turn-by-turn directions (largely because of the poor POI database.)
Thank God we have a native Google Maps app; and I'm glad to be seeing more and more apps like Fantastical 2 giving us a choice to get directions using either Apple Maps or Google Maps.
Oh Apple come on, show some inelligence!
THIS! ^^^^^
I live in a town of >20k persons. It has the wrong name. Has since Apple maps came out, since a group of us has been filling out the "Report a Problem" on a regular basis (until I gave up as I realised there was no-one listening).
Until Apple commit resources to taking up user feedback, they'll never get this trick to work. How many Ground Truth people can equal cloud sourced feedback? ... or can't Apple think different(ly) enough to make it work. Hint: TomTom source user amends.
What's the point of "Ground Truth experts" if Apple won't even fix the errors we users are reporting in our own neighborhoods?
THIS! ^^^^^
I live in a town of >20k persons. It has the wrong name. Has since Apple maps came out, since a group of us has been filling out the "Report a Problem" on a regular basis (until I gave up as I realised there was no-one listening).
Until Apple commit resources to taking up user feedback, they'll never get this trick to work. How many Ground Truth people can equal cloud sourced feedback? ... or can't Apple think different(ly) enough to make it work. Hint: TomTom source user amends.
Usable???? IT HAD NO TURN BY TURN NAVIGATION!!!!
Apple went with Google maps as a default because it was the best offering. But Google purposely never allowed Apple users to get that feature their own users enjoyed. And at the same time their maps got better in part by corrections from Apple iOS users.
What was Apple suppose to do? Keep bending over for Google?
If the situation was reversed don't you think Google would've done the same?
