I was on iCloud using Find My IPhone. I incorrectly assumed that was the same mapping info that was being used in the IOS maps app. I just checked using my phone and you are right. No indoor info. I stand corrected.
I would think this is a POI problem, not a Maps app problem. Apple is drawing their POI data from somewhere, and in this case that database clearly is not containing accurate Walmart data. Often times that is the fault of the company itself... in that they do not do a proactive job of submitting and updating their gps/address info to various sites that use that information. For example, my tiny little business can be found on google maps.... yet some very large companies in town are not. It is the responsibility of the companies involved to get their information out there an be accurate.
Apple Maps is infinitely better than Google Maps for me now. Apple is doing a great job with this.
You mean they weren't infinitely better for you when first released?![]()
You mean they weren't infinitely better for you when first released?![]()
That's correct. I'm not sure why the surprise.
Google wouldn't allow turn by turn navigation on the iPhone, so Apple spent hundred of millions to acquire and implement their own maps service in under a years time. It was an arms race, and of course Google then immediately allowed turn by turn for IOS.
Apple maps is better IMHO. It's more intuitive to use, the turn-by turn navigation is much less annoying to listen to, and the maps look more pleasing. It's less a less stressful experience. It uses less battery than google. It knows which direction you're headed down a street more accurately than google maps. I'm even amazed by how well siri pronounces street names correctly. If you give it an address, I think that it is very accurate.
What it lacks:
Search, it's very hard to find business's, restaurants, parks, etc.
Transit navigation, bus/subway schedules.
Offline cashed maps view, for when you're in the NYC subway.
SHUUUNN HIM!
You know, I like Apple Maps. It does have some neat and handy features that are nice to use. The UI is a little slicker, and performance of the damn thing absolutely screams on my iPhone and iPad. But I'm not gonna say it's infinitely better than Google. When it comes to the most important parts, the maps and the data, I'd say it's only roughly on par in some respects.
It can also be this scenario :
Apple themselves built the app, using APIs provided by Google, but Google never told them about turn-by-turn navigation APIs, just for the sake of having the exclusivity on Android.
This is something we'll never know.
So, rather than find fault with Apple Maps for not pointing at Walmart but instead pointing into a canal, we are now going to assign blame to Walmart for not proactively "updating their gps/address info". Meanwhile, Google maps app running on the very same device seems to find the exact center of the Walmart store. So, apparently, I'm to believe that Walmart has submitted proper coordinates to help shoppers using Google Maps find their store but is apparently leaving it's Apple maps-using customers to make a swim for it in a canal. Perhaps Walmart doesn't want Apple's customers?
Why some of us can never find fault with Apple and will instead spin anything any way we can spin it to shift fault off Apple makes no sense to me. If Google data is better than Apple data, I bet Apple could assign a team to write a little code to poll it's database locations for places like this vs. Google's database locations for places like this and adjust:
If <Apple maps location> is in the middle of a body of water,
and if <Google maps location> is on dry land,
and if <location is not a bridge but some kind of physical mail address entity that should be on dry land>,
then adjust <Apple maps location> to equal <Google maps location>.
The first guy who responded tried to spin this that Apple's location in the middle of the canal was more correct than Googles pointing in the middle of the store. This guy is trying to blame Walmart for not giving it's correct coordinates to Apple (but apparently giving them to Google). What's next? Typically, next should be blaming me (the user) for using the Maps app wrong. Then, someone should try to change the subject with something like "but who's single model smart device is most profitable?" or similar.
There are TONS of posts online about Apple Maps bugs. Do a search. I'm very glad that some are seeing some corrections after what- 2+ years???. I'd love to see Apple's Maps app accuracy improve myself. But in the meantime, I'm not going to deem it more right or blame the address holders when the other guys maps app seems to generally get it right.
One thing I'm noticed recently is Apple Maps is actually more up-to-date in my area (outside the US) than Google, not only for navigation but also the aerial/satellite images.
I am not trying to spin anything to avoid placing blame on Apple. I am looking at this very pragmatically. I own and run a courier business. Deliveries are my business, i do many of them every single day of the week. I understand how these things work very well. Very often a client gives me incorrect address information for a delivery. Rather than get on the phone and call the client, we always first attempt to resolve the discrepancy ourselves. This is usually a google search, or yelp, or otherwise. And we very often do a google search, and find multiple addresses for the same business, because they have moved... and we have to figure out which is the newest/correct one. And you know what, when this happens, i do NOT blame google for showing me search results that contain discrepancies.
And a lot of people do not realize this, but when companies initially starting submitting POI information to various companies that compile such info, it wasn't always address information that was provided. Often they supplied hard latitude and longitude coordinates. Often times this information was not correct... hence it showed up on a map in a weird location. Also... companies often submitted information for planned or future locations. Walmart, for example, always has plans to build new stores. It is entirely feasible that someone somewhere entered coordinates for a planned lot. Who knows. But i do know it is absolutely pointless... beyond pointless... to attack someone for pointing out various ways that these kind of errors occur. Does it make you feel better about yourself.
Good for you.
I was on iCloud using Find My IPhone. I incorrectly assumed that was the same mapping info that was being used in the IOS maps app. I just checked using my phone and you are right. No indoor info. I stand corrected.
Who are these "people" you speak of? Anyone who has an Android device is inherently tied to Google. Last I checked, that's a lot of people. I hear a lot of people give reasons for not getting an Android device; but "not trusting Google" is not one of the reasons I frequently hear. I work in the dental field and you might be surprised how many dental offices I work with that use either vanilla Gmail or Google Apps for their office e-mail. When the average person thinks of doing an internet search, where do they usually go?
Now I see, and agree with, what you're saying in relation to Google Maps. Anyone expecting parity at launch was bound to be disappointed, but Apple promised better than parity. That's where you and I disagree; Apple's presentation.
People get an Android because it's cheap not because they like Android.
You mean they weren't infinitely better for you when first released?![]()