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So... Are Apple Maps improving yet?
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I only see traffic when it's red, and only on freeways, pretty much.
Google maps is way more detailed.
So to say traffic is outstanding is a bit unbelievable.
My initial impression of turn-by-turn was good, but yesterday it sent me on a meandering, nine-mile surface street journey to Pasadena (from LA), instead of just telling me to take the 101 freeway, adding a good 20 minutes to the trip. They really need to improve their algorithms which weigh surface versus highway travel. Perhaps they don't even have any data about street travel times, and just use some average speed multiplied the mileage.
I still don't see how anybody who has even used Google maps, with its clear display of traffic, thinks the one in iOS is even close to acceptable.
You can barely see when it's red. And then you have either red or nothing.
No green or orange. And barely anything on any other streets other than the main freeways.
So, lets not pretend that it's even close to acceptable.
And if I need voice Nav I'll use Co-pilot with its on board maps, so having cell reception is completely unnecessary.
You can barely see when it's red. And then you have either red or nothing.
No green or orange. And barely anything on any other streets other than the main freeways.
So, lets not pretend that it's even close to acceptable.
And if I need voice Nav I'll use Co-pilot with its on board maps, so having cell reception is completely unnecessary.
They probably have a team for each part of maps, everyone does their own job. Just like a Nurse would do the shaving, a Doctor the operating.
It tells me all I need to know. I live in a smallish town and shows clearing when town centre gets traffic queues and which side of the road it is.
What else do you need know? Is it mostly buses or cars? Is there a dead hedgehog in the road?
It tells me all I need to know. I live in a smallish town and shows clearing when town centre gets traffic queues and which side of the road it is.
What else do you need know? Is it mostly buses or cars? Is there a dead hedgehog in the road?
Some of us live in cities, and need to see where there is slow moving or stopped traffic, so we can get to appointments on time. So, the IOS maps is useless.
And again, someone responding with zero frame of reference, as so typically happens on these forums.
Some of us live in cities, and need to see where there is slow moving or stopped traffic, so we can get to appointments on time. So, the IOS maps is useless.
And again, someone responding with zero frame of reference, as so typically happens on these forums.
In these discussions you can never convince people to change their minds anyway.
You won't convince me it's not good enough for me and I won't convince you that it's good enough for you. You're welcome to pay for a better app rather than using a free one.
Just do what I did. Buy the Tomtom app and dump the standalone.I have a standalone TomTom that I use for navigation, so these barely functional maps aren't really a big problem... it's just that I would like to get rid of my TomTom in my never ending quest for device consolidation
Don't really want to buy another app when Apple's offering should work and I already have an alternative. It's the principle of it.
The main problem I have with Apple Maps is that its search isn't as powerful or intelligent as Google's.
For example, if I search 'Arts xentre' it returns no results because it can't detect the obvious typo. We expect typo detection now. If I correct my typo and search again, it takes me to Arts Centre in Canberra, Australia. Bear in mind I live in the UK and performed my search zoomed into my current location. Ok, so the arts centre in my city officially has the city name in its title, and including that returns the result, but no one expects to have to be that precise these days.
Unless they address this, it doesn't matter how correct and plentiful their data is.
For example, if I search 'Arts xentre' it returns no results because it can't detect the obvious typo. We expect typo detection now. If I correct my typo and search again, it takes me to Arts Centre in Canberra, Australia. Bear in mind I live in the UK and performed my search zoomed into my current location. Ok, so the arts centre in my city officially has the city name in its title, and including that returns the result, but no one expects to have to be that precise these days.
Unless they address this, it doesn't matter how correct and plentiful their data is.
Precisely.I have a standalone TomTom that I use for navigation, so these barely functional maps aren't really a big problem... it's just that I would like to get rid of my TomTom in my never ending quest for device consolidation
It's rather ironic in my case since I have an excellent OEM Nav system in my car, as well as a handheld Garmin.
Yet I find that if I'm at lunch with a friend or in many other scenario's where I'm not in the car, or near a computer, & I want to look up a location, I'm so used to having Google's excellent maps on my iPhone that when that's no longer available it's incredibly limiting.
I've tried hard to tolerate Apple maps, but I'm so mobile over such a huge area, without fail the location I want is not in Apple Maps. Also as an avid rock climber & hiker, much of what I'm used to having in Google Maps is not likely to appear in Apple maps for a very long time.
Already the conversations, in the various athletic & sports clubs I'm in, have shifted from our frustrations with Apple maps, to dumping the iPhone in favor of Galaxy's since Google maps are stellar, enhanced by the 4.8" brilliant display. At just a few pixels below retina, Samsungs displays are every bit as good, actually better because of the large screen.
None of us wants to give up our iPhones yet it's Apple that's pushing us away. A scenario we would have never envisioned just six short months ago.
Yes, Apple Maps sucks. After hearing it for the gajillionth time, I think we get it.
But people need to stop posting demands for them to bring back Google Maps to the iPhone.
IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN.
So your choices are these:
Deal with the craptastic Apple Maps.
Download an app you prefer.
Use Google Maps in Safari.
Switch to a different phone and platform.
Done? Done.
But people need to stop posting demands for them to bring back Google Maps to the iPhone.
IT WILL NEVER HAPPEN.
So your choices are these:
Deal with the craptastic Apple Maps.
Download an app you prefer.
Use Google Maps in Safari.
Switch to a different phone and platform.
Done? Done.
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A sarcastic comment about an obvious typo. How mundanely...internet.Not done....
It's spelled "craptastic"...get it right next time...
And, yes, it is done. Apple was going to pull the trigger on this eventually. They just did it early.
So either accept or move on.
They do but the level of detail is stripped out and all you get is, there is traffic. Yeah, not helpful when there is always traffic in a large city.
So, you only see traffic when there's... traffic. And only where there's traffic. If it doesn't show traffic, because there is no traffic, you'd still like to be seeing traffic?
I know that in Google Maps, Green means "no traffic". But is it really fair to say that because in Apple Maps, where "no traffic" is indicated by no traffic marks, the App is horrible?
I dunno. I figured out pretty quick that no marks meant no traffic, and moved on.
No matter how much they improve the maps they will always be worthless cause you can't send a link to a friend, family, etc and let them view it on a website.
BTW, Disney world is ****ed up. I've submitted tons of location corrects, and TomTom has been showing River Country as still open. It has been closed for like 10 years or something. All reported.
BTW, Disney world is ****ed up. I've submitted tons of location corrects, and TomTom has been showing River Country as still open. It has been closed for like 10 years or something. All reported.